Clerk: Insurance at Ackermans

As we grow our footprint in the number of stores we have, we are growing our Finance support team, too! We have an exciting opportunity for a candidates who is passionate about insurance and finance. The Clerk: Insurance will report to the Insurance Coordinator and will be mainly responsible logging and finalizing claims timeously with our insurance brokers by collating all supporting documentation from the stores, raising the respective monthly accruals and delivering accurate and complete insurance statistics to the business.

We're a fully in-office team. This role is based at our Support Centre in Kuils River, Cape Town.

Key responsibilities:

 Logging of Insurance Claims

• Administration and Claim Processing by contacting brokers
• Inform stores of insurance documentation requirements
• Finalize claim internally and submit to brokers for oversight
• Prepare insurance journals for expense and aggregate account
• Balance schedules between insurance brokers and insurance schedules
• Compile statistics for all divisions

 Reconciliations

• Preparing of monthly Insurance reconciliations
• Query, resolve and journalise reconciling items
• Communication reconciling items across teams
• Balancing claim register to General Ledger accounts claim value
• Match of correction journals against reconciling items
• Posting of journals

Qualifications required:

Essential:

• Grade 12 (Accounting and/ or Maths)

Preferred:

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification (Certificate/ Diploma/ Degree)

Knowledge required:

• Strong administration knowledge and ability
• Working knowledge of the SAP accounting system
• Good knowledge of financial administration and basic accounting principles (debits, credits, journals, reconciliations) and their application (finance systems)
• Good understanding of insurance

Experience required:

Essential:

• 2 -3 years’ relevant finance administration experience, including strong reconciliation experience

Preferred:

• Previous experience in working within the fashion retail industry
• Experience in working on the SAP accounting system

Skills required:

• Computer skills, intermediate to advanced Excel
• Communication skills (verbal and written)
• Interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team
• Attention to detail
• Above average numerical ability
• Deadline driven
• Analytical thinking
• Ability to work under pressure
• Able to deal with large volumes of work