Treasury Assistant at AON

• Aon Re Africa is hiring a Treasury/Finance Assistant within our Finance Team, this is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work both virtually and from our head office in Sandton.
• The primary role of the finance assistant is to assist the finance team with finance related functions, month-end processing, balance sheet reconciliations and audit requests and financial reporting.

What the day will look like

• Timely and accurate reporting of GL through analysis and taking corrective actions, where vital with very strict timelines.
• Processing of journals, running reports of various systems.
• Balance sheet recon preparation of various fiduciary and non-fiduciary accounts also in line with strict timelines.
• Ensure more time is spent analyzing, investigating, and resolving uncleared items on the balance sheet.
• Assist the auditors with relevant queries relating to finance functions when requested.
• Interaction with controllership monthly to enhance controllership functions & cooperation.
• Book FX deals for payments made and ensure they clear on the cash book in that week.
• Create large volumes of payments with high values on a weekly basis.
• Daily monitoring and preparation of cash book through follow up of uncleared, reconciling items and FX transactions.
• Minimizing of Forex risk by applying appropriate controls (e.g., restrict use of manage forex deals and have necessary sign off when done).
• Payments being queried by either technical accounts or bank and making sure that they are resolved timeously.
• Occasional adhoc involvement in projects or initiatives as per finance manager’s instructions.

Skills and experience that will lead to success
Qualifications

• Grade 12 (matric).
• University degree in Accounting or Finance advantageous.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of reinsurance premium & claims principles beneficial.
• Solid understanding of Foreign Exchange.
• Have a thorough understanding of end-to-end fiduciary payment processes.
• Knowledge of relevant systems (RBS, GRiDS, et cetera).
• End to end understanding of sales input to financial reporting

Skills and Attributes.

• Sound MS Office Skills (intermediate excel crucial; pivot tables & VLOOKUP’s).
• Be analytical, pay attention to detail and have good problem-solving skills.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills.
• Well-developed analytical skills.
• Articulate communicator.
• Well-developed communication skills. (Written and spoken).
• Proven ability to work with and in teams.
• Digital literacy with sophisticated experience in MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Willingness to learn and receive instructions.

Experience.

• Have experience from invoicing to financial reporting.
• Have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role