Accountant - Modderfontein at AECI Limited

Job Description    

• Perform month end transactional activities e.g., review of adjustments, month end closing procedures and recon preparation etc.
• Provide first level support in terms of call and query handling across AEL.
• Perform selected bank reconciliations.
• Review, approve and post predefined manual journal entries and supporting documentation and narration to journal (ensure journal entries are valid, accurate and complete).
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts and follow up on long outstanding items.
• Prepare monthly memorandum of balance sheet recon issues for review by the in-country team.
• Align with COE on GL master data maintenance.
• Capture loading of EFT payments i.e., non-vendor related payments.
• Release of EFT payments (not for the same country for which you have loaded payments)
• Process of non-vendor related payments in SAP.
• Conduct cash book processing and bank reconciliation preparation.
• Ensure all long outstanding and reconciling items on bank reconciliation are timeously cleared.
• Process petty cash transactions.
• Facilitate urgent payment requests.
• Engage with stakeholders at an operational level to address any service delivery issues.
• Ensure attendance of monthly governance meetings.
• Comply with all legislation relating to accounting matters.
• Identify internal control weaknesses and assist in developing and implementing improvement opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with SLA criteria (specific to area of responsibility).
• Keep abreast on legal and regulatory issues relating to accounting matters.
• Comply with Safety, Health and Environment standards.
• Review audit instructions and compile/prepare supporting documentation for the audit process.
• Resolve audit queries and discuss with internal / external auditor where required.

Qualifications & Experience    

• Matric.
• B Com Financial Accounting or equivalent qualification.
• 3 – 5 years’ experience as an Accountant or equivalent (with Supervisory experience).
• Fluency in French will be beneficial.
• A high degree of computer literacy including advanced knowledge of the MS Office Suite – especially MS Excel and Word.
• Good business acumen