Job Description

Key purpose:

To control, action and monitor all the financial reconciliations.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Prepare the monthly balance sheet reconciliations for all companies
  
• Prepare the payroll vendor reconciliations.
  
• Follow up and clear all reconciliation queries and variances.
  
• Prepare the monthly consolidated bank recon/roll forward (SAP to bank statement).
  
• Perform inter-company balancing checks during the month and at month end.
  
• Perform the staff debtors reconciliation for certain business areas and follow up on outstanding documents/clearing.
  
• Raise all month-end branch accruals and follow up with the regions.
  
• Process all payroll related payments in SAP.
  
• Process Lesotho border levy journals.
  
• Prepare the McCain debtors reconciliation and liaise with the McCain creditors clerk to resolve queries.
  
• Provide back up for the following treasury functions.
• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management in terms of planning, prioritising and selfdevelopment.
• Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of work are consistently and accurately maintained.
  
• Inform relevant parties in the event of tasks or deadlines not met, the potential risks thereof and provide appropriate resolution.
  
• Support and drive the business core values.
  
• Manage colleagues and clients expectations and communicate appropriately.
• Demonstrate willingness to help others and go the extra mile to meet team targets and objectives.
  
• Champion training and development of self and others through utilising available training opportunities or contributing to the development of new training solutions relating to product costing in collaboration with national training specialists.
  
• Participate in regular performance appraisals and ensure that own targets and goals are clear and achievable.
• Accuracy of reconciliations
  
• Accuracy of payment processing
  
• Outstanding item resolution
  
• Deadline delivery management

Qualifications and experience:

• Matric
• An Accounting based tertiary qualification
  
• Minimum of 1 years relevant experience is required
  
• SAP R/3 experience preferable
• Strong Reconciliations experience
• Knowledge of Accounting principles and practices