Financial Accountant at Liyema Consulting

Requirements

• Relevant Accounting Qualification
• 5+ years relevant experience in Recruitment and Payroll Outsourcing industry
• 5+ years relevant accounting experience in reconciling Accounts Receivables and Payable, including bank allocations
• Computer literacy and the ability to apply accounting principle
• Advanced Excel (non negotiable)
• Experience with Sage Accounting and Sage Pay (non-negotiable)

Key Competencies

• Attention to detail
• Must have strong analytical and numeracy skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Time management
• Strong reconciling capabilities
• Process orientated
• Hard working and willing to go the extra mile
• Effective communication skills
• Negotiating skills
• Exceptional record keeping
• Microsoft Office Competence

Duties and responsibilities

• Filing of all supporting documents within finance department;
• Providing support to the MD /Financial Manager and responsible for maintaining the accounting duties pertaining to the business- Debtors, Creditors, Petty Cash, Bank Accounts, Statutory Returns and Monthly reporting;
• Maintains files for audit purposes and record history;
• Ensure the integrity of the general ledger and internal controls
• Allocation of payments and receipts with all bank accounts;
• Management of cashflow statement;
• Keeping abreast with company age analysis on overdue and problematic accounts;
• Engages with internal and external stakeholder, as required, to ensure efficient financial administration
• Raising, sending and follow-up of quotes;
• Ensuring all Purchase Orders are received timeously from clients;
• Creating customer invoices;
• Sending of invoices and statements to customers;
• Preparation of debtors’ reconciliations;
• Supporting the recruitment team with reconciling all outstanding invoices;
• Follow up on payments from clients;
• Assisting clients with account queries;
• Timeous escalation on invoices not processed on time;
• Ensure that all supplier invoices are valid and processed accurately;
• Preparation of creditors’ reconciliantions;
• Requesting statements and invoices from suppliers on a monthly basis;
• Submission of all SARS related taxes – VAT, PAYE etc.
• Producing monthly management accounts and balance sheet reconciliation