Intern: Finance Assistant at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Under direct supervision, responsible for the classification and recording of information in respect of financial transactions and the maintenance of accounting records in one of the following areas: debtors, creditors, ledgers, cashbook, reconciliations, treasury. 
• Posts journal or voucher entries, reconciles accounts and checks for accuracy. Verifies, sorts, posts and checks claims, bills, invoices and vouchers.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Payment of Consultants or Services
• Keep payment sheet up to date for consultants
• Purchase Orders for Consultants
• Contractors Audit Reporting
• Capturing and Recon of Invoices and Journal
• Journals for Accruals and Receipt of Goods on PO’s
• Verify Receipt of Goods
• Assisting with investigations of forward cover or early payments with Vendors
• Investigate variances between actuals and budget
• Provide reasons for over or under spend on recon items monthly
• Follow-up and obtain approvals from relevant Exco/Manco members on critical time sensitive documents, payments and approvals
• Obtain, Validate Quotes or Invoices – oversee
• Handling Ad hoc payment queries or requests directly from Vendors and Clients
• Assist with audit queries and provide necessary documentation.
• Handling of queries on a daily basis
• Prioritise and re-prioritise work to meet deadlines due to changes
• Ensure that processes are draw up and kept up to date for consistence in delivery.
• Sending reminders for new consultant contracts to stakeholders in advance, following up to ensure that the division is not exposed to over payment of contracts or contractors
• Handling Ad hoc queries or requests from Vendors and Clients

Qualification

• Matric
• Degree or Diploma in Finance

Knowledge

• Recording of financial Transactions
• Reconciliations and query resolution
• Compliance with SOP's and SLA's

Knowledge and Skills

• Recording of Financial Transactions
• Accounting Records Maintenance
• Accounting Compliance