Job Summary
Junior Accountant
Our client is a global commodities trading company providing metals, minerals, energy, and soft commodities solutions across the full supply chain.
They are looking for a Junior Accountant to join their team at their offices in Claremont, Cape Town.
Role Responsibilities
- Monitoring of shared accounting mailbox
- Loading and assigning supplier invoices on DocuSign for approval
- E-Filing allocated invoices into the correct folders
- Following up with the relevant people when invoices have not been accurately allocated
- Reviewing of allocated invoices for accuracy
- Sending out Weekly Reports requesting allocation of unallocated invoices
- Follow up on long-standing outstanding invoices that remain unallocated
- Maintaining the master document, listing all supplier and customer invoices
- Managing supplier relationships and communication with them relating to corrections to invoices, managing payment expectations, and follow-up of outstanding items
- Maintaining up-to-date AP ageing and communication of payable invoices with Treasury
- Assisting with month-end processing, bank reconciliations, and journal capturing
- Uploading of invoices to the banking system for payment release
- Sending out proof of payments to suppliers
- Assistance with audit
Requirements
- A candidate with 1-3 years of experience in accounting and a diploma in accounting or similar
- If you have experience/knowledge of the mining sector, it will be advantageous but not essential
- Competent in MS Office – Excel, Outlook, Word
- Knowledge of working with Sage Intacct is advantageous