Financial Assistant at Shoprite Group of Companies

Purpose of the Job    

• To ensure that all sales and sales adjustments are processed on SAP to provide complete and accurate sales figures for reporting purposes. To ensure that the Sales match the Cash and Non-bankable tenders and to identify and report shorts and overs and irregular and fraudulent unauthorised sales transactions.

Job Objectives    

• Reconcile Sales Clearing Account Supermarkets per store to all System Reports. 
• Identify possible fraud on sales transactions at the Supermarket stores.
• Ensure all sales transactions are processed on SAP Finance from the GK POS and SAP CAR systems.
• Raise incidents to the IT department for missing sales and incorrect sales.
• Follow up on unresolved incidents.
• Identify the shorts and overs for Supermarket stores and journalise corrections to the income statement account.
• Balance the SAP CAR Sales Clearing report total declarations figure to the total of the GK POS NOVA reports.
• Identify and investigate differences outstanding on the Sales Clearing Account between SAP Finance, SAP CAR and GK POS including tender differences: stamps, vouchers, e-cards, cash, Money Market, cash rounding and Sixty60.
• Process manual sales adjustments for Supermarkets per store after all reports were reviewed.
• Reconcile and analyse expense and income accrual general ledger accounts e.g. electricity and water expenses, generator diesel usage etc.

Qualifications    

• Matric (Gr12) and National Diploma / Degree in Finance, Accounting or related field (essential).

Experience    

• +2 Years accounting / reconciliation knowledge (essential).
• Branch Cash Office experience (desirable).

Knowledge and Skills    

• Computer literacy (Excel skills) (essential).
• SAP skills (desirable).

Closing Date    

• 2026/06/17