Finance Assistant I: Accounts Receivable at Woolworths

Introduction

• To manage customer accounts for Africa, Africa E-wallet customers, Insurance, PayFlex, Buy Aid and perform reconciliations related to exports and Insurance, and collect the debt within the specified payment terms and resolve payment queries.

Job description

• Understand the export and accounting process of the commercial invoices and capex invoices from Global Trading Solutions into the Africa customer subledger accounts.
• To reconcile the export sales and cost of goods sold, manage in Global Trading Solutions to the general ledger and ensure that all consignments are recognized in debtors.
• Ensure any Global Trading Solutions incidents are accurately updated in the CA Uni-center daily and incidents maintained on a biweekly basis.
• Recover debt from Africa customers and Buy Aid customers within the agreed payment terms.
• Identify unprocessed Africa, E-wallet, PayFlex, Insurance and Buy Aid customer payments and apply cash accurately to these customer accounts daily.
• Provide Treasury with UCR number & BOP categories for African Debtor payments
• Ensure timeous and proper communication with all customers regarding outstanding debt or short payments, resolving queries or nonpayment’s timeously.
• Ensure the monthly Africa Slide in the Working Capital report has accurate commentary.
• Ensure that all PayFlex customer daily and monthly processing has been completed, payment schedules updated, payments allocated.
• Ensure that all Unison insurance claims (less than excess) are timeously credited, all insurance claims with no Unison claims numbers and old Unison claims are followed up, with the relevant stakeholders.
• Review all manual billing instructions for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure the timeous escalation of queries or system failures with the relevant business unit stakeholders.
• Accurately complete journals and accruals on a timeous basis.
• Ad hoc Reporting as requested by management.

Minimum requirements

• Accounting Diploma from a Technical College; or
• 4 years’ experience in an accounting environment
• Sound understanding of accounting principles
• Proven competence in Excel and Oracle financial systems.
• Apply accounting knowledge in a large, complex IT driven accounting environment and to process large volumes of financial transactions

Behavioral Skills:

• Personal Effectiveness
• Team leadership
• Passion for the brand and customers
• Thinking strategically and commercially
• Leading Transformation
• Connecting people
• Delivering high performance
• Having an accounting mindset
• Making insightful business decisions
• Driving quality
• Planning and organizing

Deadline:31st July,2025