Junior Financial Accountant / Bookkeeper

SUMMARY:
A leading international company requires the above to assist the Senior Financial Accountant with all financial accounting administration for the company within the finance department.

POSITION INFO:
Minimum requirements for the role:

• A BCom Finance or Accounting or related degree is essential for this role.
• Previous experience having worked on Pastel Partner is preferred.
• Previous experience having worked in an Accountant role is essential.
• Must have advanced Excel experience.

• Assisting the Financial Manager with all accounting functions within the company.
• Assisting with any customer queries, statements, reconciliations when required.
• Assisting the logistics department in the capturing of sales orders and raising invoices
• Processing credit notes to customer accounts.
• Journalising settlement discounts against customer accounts.
• Handling accounts receivable as well as all bad debts or write offs, discounting journals on customer accounts.
• Creating purchase orders on pastel for suppliers and allocating expenses to the correct ledger accounts.
• Capturing and matching supplier invoices against purchase orders on pastel.
• Reconciling monthly creditors age analysis and submitting reconciliations to management for approval.
• Writing off of expired stock on pastel and updating cash forecast on debtors and creditors.
• Calculating and submitting the SARS returns for PAYE, SDL and UIF, VAT, WCA, EMP501 reconciliation, VAT501 and provisional tax.
• Reconciling general ledger accounts on a monthly basis and compiling and updating of asset registers.
• Creating accruals and standard month end journals for discount write offs etc.
• Assisting with the full preparations of company books for year end auditing.