Assistant Accountant (Engineering Company) – Cape Town, Western Cape 90 views
Job Overview
Requirements:
- N4 Financial Management/ Certificate in Financial Accounting
- 5 years’ Financial experience
- ERP systems
- Financial knowledge
- Systems, Leadership and People skills
Key Performance Indicators:
- Profitability and Sustainability
- Globally manufacturing competitive costs
- Exceeds customer satisfaction
- Outperform the competition
- Partner Suppliers
- Responsible corporate citizen
Interpersonal Skills:
- Deadline driven
- Dedicated
- Excellent people skills
- Confident and able to handle stress
- Motivated
- Leading
The main purpose of this position:
Carries out a number of accounting duties such as the processing and payment of creditors ‘invoices, reconciliation of statements, invoicing of clients, ledger maintenance, follow up on unpaid debtors
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Perform routine calculations to produce analyses and reports as requested by the Management Accountant
- Create, send, and follow up on invoices (creditors, debtors, sales function)
- Reconcile any discrepancies or errors identified
- Adhere to the company’s financial policies and procedures
- Opening of clients’ accounts with third parties
- Cashbook
- Assisting procurement (Purchase orders, sorting GRN’s)
- Reconciling of general ledger accounts
- Timeous preparation of monthly journals
- SARS communication, filing VAT/ EMP returns
- Payments on ERP system and directly on Bank platform
- Cash flow forecasts together with investments
- Cost saving initiatives
- Analysis and Projects
- Assets (Depreciating, additions, and disposals)
- Plan, organise and manage own workload to ensure contribution to the company’s monthly financial reporting is achieved in a timely and accurate manner
- Assist with reporting
- Foreign transactions/ Payments together with Imports/ Exports/Customs
- Assisting colleagues on daily tasks
- Train and assist colleagues on ERP system
- Assist with yearend preparation and procedures
- Advance Payment knowledge