Job Summary
Required skills & abilities:
- Tertiary qualifications Diploma / B.Com or accounting studies
- Experience and understanding a manufacturing environment with at least 5 years of relevant work experience
- Prior experience in dealing with large books for debtors and creditors
- To be able to work to Trial Balance
- Proficient working knowledge of foreign transactions (debtors/creditors/banking)
- Computer literacy Excel proficiency and previous experience in Pastel advantageous
- Strong administration and organization skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- The ability to work in a team and independently
- In a calm, confident manner to handle potentially uncomfortable conversations.
- Sound decision-making and business judgment
- Ability to learn and adapt on the job
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
- Willing to ask when in need of help and assistance
Key Performance:
Facilitate the full bookkeeping function from -
- General accruals and monthly journals
- Cashbook
- Maintaining regular cashbook and bank reconciliations
- Accurately posting and processing of the cashbook
- Understanding of foreign transactions (debtors / creditors / cashbook)
- Debtors management
- Customer liaison, recons, statements, queries, and debt collections
- Creditors management
- Supplier recons, preparation of payments, queries short deliveries, quantities
following up etc
- Trial Balance
- Identifying and rectifying issues at an early stage.
- Financial information is accurate, reliable monthly
- Coordinate and liaise with the various departments (internal and sister company controllers)
as well as with suppliers and customers
- Work with external audits at year-end and provide ad hoc information as required
- Maintaining and ensuring complete administration files and supporting documentation
TO APPLY:
- Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
- Please Apply Online and complete your registration on Ditto Hire (our application tracking system) to enable and protect you as a candidate to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions. This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL. However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market.
- AJ Personnel is fully POPIA Compliant.
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
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- AJ PERSONNEL will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
- If you have not received a response within two (2) weeks from applying, your application was most likely unsuccessful.
- In accordance with our Employment Equity goals and plan, preference will be given to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
