Reconciliation Accountant - Cape Town at Engen

Purpose of the Job

To perform reconciliations by ensuring that reconciling items are followed up on and resolved on time thereby ensuring accurate financial records enabling informed business decisions

Who You Are:

• You have strong interpersonal, communication, problem-solving and analytical skills
• You are committed to delivering quality outputs, with a high concern for accuracy and attention to detail
• You are team orientated and customer focused
• You work well under pressure, with little or no supervision, and display excellent time management skills.
• You have a reputation for performing above expectations.

What you’ll have done before:

Baseline:

• NQF Level 6 (Diploma in Accounting)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience performing accounting reconciliations
• SAP experience (FI module)

Advantageous:

• NQF level 7 - Degree in accounting
• Previous experience with bank, vendor or GL recons

Exciting Challenges you might face in the role

• Gain a deeper understanding of vendor, bank and other GL accounts processes from a specialist point of view
• Collaborate with various stakeholders [internal and external] to ensure that accurate data is timeously recorded
• Deliver excellence, amidst tight deadlines

What you’ll be doing

Perform reconciliations

• Ensure that reconciliations are performed monthly and that reconciling items are followed up on and resolved enabling accurate accounting records

Perform month end and year end activities

• Ensure that the month end and year end activities and processes are followed, and deadlines are met enabling a smooth period end close and audit process

Accounting activities

• Ensure that all accounting journal entries are processed timeously and accurately.
• Ensure daily bank accounting activities are timeously captured, reconciled, and cleared.

ACB Monitoring

• Monitoring daily collections, ensuring all collections are actioned and follow up with stakeholder.

Query logging and resolution

• Ensure that all queries are logged and resolved within the set SLA.