Clerk : Revenue at Ackermans

• We have an exciting opportunity for a Clerk: Revenue to join our team on a permanent basis. This position is based at our Support Centre in Kuilsriver, Cape Town and will be part of a very diverse and vibrant Finance team. We're a fully in-office team. This position will report directly to the Accountant: Revenue .
• The Clerk: Revenue with be responsible to analyse and reconcile the store revenue transactions.

Key responsibilities:

Reconciliation

Cash

• Perform daily reconciliation of the cash bankable amount per store to the bank statement amount (On the reconciliation system)
• Follow up on all exceptions with banks & CIT company
• Correct, re-assign and release deposits, surpluses and shortages with incorrect store reference numbers for assigned stores.
• Prepare & post journals for unmapped bank entries not posted by recon system (bank recon items).

Card

• Perform daily reconciliation of all the card transactions between the third parties and point of sale information
• Follow up on all exceptions with banks, gift card providers, all value-added services (VAS) & Tenacity

GL Reconciliation

• Perform all revenue general ledger reconciliations (excluding bank accounts)
• Analyse the root cause of all reconciliation variances & conclude appropriate corrective system action required.

Sales Clearing

• Perform weekly balancing of sales clearing general ledger account
• Investigate and resolve variances on weekly sales balancing

Administration

Buy aid

• Prepare & post monthly buy aid commission and sales journals

Internal & external Audit Team / Operations

• Confirm the stores’ banking status with the internal audit team
• Provide accurate supporting documents to external audit team

Record Keeping

• File away all the business documents & save electronic documents on the assigned finance folders on Sharepoint (or Other), in accordance with the Personal Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

Journals

• Posting of accrual journals, according to the accounting system requirements

Trend analysis

• Identify trends in cash & card reconciliation differences noted on the reconciliation system

Qualifications required:

Essential:

• Grade 12 (Accounting and Mathematics)

Preferred:

• Relevant Finance Diploma / Certificate

Knowledge required:

• Financial Reconciliations
• Balancing stores sales to point of sale in the stores
• Good knowledge of financial administration and basic accounting principles and application thereof (debits, credits, journals, reconciliations)

Experience required:

Essential:

• 1-2 years’ relevant finance administration experience, including strong reconciliation experience

Preferred:

• Retail experience

Skills required:

• Computer skills – MS 365
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team
• Attention to detail
• Above average numerical ability
• Deadline driven
• Ability to work under pressure
• Able to deal with large volumes of work