Accountant​/Senior Bookkeeper

Our Client in Soweto is looking for an experienced Accountant to join their team.

• Coordinate credit applications
• Set up new creditors with full contact details and get banking account details
• Sole point of contact with suppliers re accounting matters, receipt of invoices and statements
• Maintain creditor data base
• Check supplier invoices for block stamp completion by depts, and against supporting documents and capture, using correct GL accounts; follow up with suppliers for credit notes for wrong invoices, short supply etc
• Debit and credit transaction matching
• Obtain statements from suppliers
• Reconcile statements using Excel template; ensure that supplier invoices are processed for payment in accordance with supplier payment terms
• Prepare documents for payment for all payments excluding salaries, supported either by Excel template or block-stamped docs, approved by Ho Ds
• Process creditor journals to fix accuracy of creditor accounts
• Process payments from bank statements to creditors
• Generate a creditors age analysis at each month end after completion of processing of invoices and payments and review it for unusual items
• Recon age analysis to creditors control account, for review
• Non-Member Customers/Debtors:
  Set up new debtors accounts on instruction from HoDs, with full contact details
• Process invoices on instruction from HoDs and send to customers
• Sole point of contact with debtors re accounting matters, invoices, statements, payments
• Send statements to debtors after each month end when all transactions for the month have been processed
• Follow up with debtors re overdue debtors (using approved 3 stage email templates) and record feedback from them
• Process debtor journals to fix accuracy of creditor accounts
• Process payments from bank statements to debtors
• Generate a debtors age analysis at each month end after completion of processing of invoices and payments and review it for unusual items
• Recon age analysis to debtors control account, for review
• Debit and credit transaction matching
• Fixed Asset Register & Recon to GL
• Balance Sheet Recons and Schedules

PLEASE NOTE:

THIS IS NOT THE FULL JOB SPEC