Accountant / Debtors Administrator at Helderberg Personnel

Requirements:

• BCom Financial or Management Accounting degree
• At least 3 years proven working experience as accountant, debtor’s controller, or accounts receivable clerk.
• A solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounts receivable principles is required.
• Experience and good knowledge of IFRS for SMEs, VAT and Income Tax
• Proficient on MS Office (Excel, Word, OneDrive, and SharePoint)
• Detail-orientated
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple accounts
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills
• Proven ability to multi-task, prioritise and plan
• Presentable with strong Interpersonal communication and listening skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and handle difficult conversations with debtors.

Duties will include but not limited to the following:

Accountant and Debtors Administrator duties:

• Performing regular bookkeeping duties, such as: Processing of cash book and bank reconciliations
• Processing of creditor invoices
• Fixed asset register maintenance
• General ledger maintenance
• Journal processing
• Calculation and reconciliation of VAT account
• Reconciliation of control accounts
• Petty cash reconciliation and management
• Processing of daily customer receipts on accounting software
• Processing of credit notes
• Timely distribution of invoices and statements
• Timely and effective collection of all debts and customers payments
• Investigating and resolving debtors that are over 30 days
• Calculate interest on outstanding customer balances
• Verify discrepancies by and resolve customers’ billing issues
• Debit order collections management and reporting
• Resolving queries both internally and externally around outstanding invoices
• Reconcile inter-company deposits and transfers
• Setup new clients on software
• Maintain client database on software