Financial Assistant/Bookkeeper at Talented Recruitment Specialists

• We’re looking for a detail-driven Financial Assistant/Bookkeeper to join a busy retail fuel business in Pretoria East. You’ll handle bank reconciliations, invoicing, debtors, creditors, payments and general financial administration.
• The ideal candidate is Sage One and Excel proficient, highly organised, accurate and financially minded, with the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced small team.

Duties and responsibilities: 

• Capturing and reconciling the bank constantly throughout the day.
• Issuing sales orders and invoices, as well as ensuring data accuracy of Debtors.
• Processing Creditor invoices and reconciliations, as well as validating the pricing of the creditors. Requesting corrections from Creditors
• Order processing, tracking and reporting.
• Updating, maintaining and reconciling various information sheets.
• Loading payments on the bank.
• Submitting order details and documentation on various WhatsApp groups.
• Maintaining a good electronic and paper filing system.
• Assisting Head of Finance and the business Owner with various tasks.
• Secretarial tasks.
• Ad hoc tasks.
• Additional tasks:
• Updating business Owner on various financial information.
• Updating business Owner when Head of Finance is on leave.
• Assisting with various other Head of Finance tasks when he is on leave.

Requirements:

• Matric with high marks in mathematics and preferably accounting.
• Financial diploma preferably.
• More than 2 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Familiar with and able to operate a MacBook.
• Afrikaans home language and fluent in English.
• Sage one experience is a requirement.
• Good Excel and Word experience is a requirement.
• com experience is advantageous.
• Client, financial and other confidentiality is highly important and not to be discussed with anyone outside the business.
• Financial, calculative and forward-thinking mind.
• Attention to detail.
• Technology savvy and willingness to learn.
• Quick to learn and understand various online portals.
• Fast thinking and execution, but accuracy is highly important.
• Good understanding of accounting and finance.
• Double checking own work and highly focused.
• Able to work in a small team.