Accounts Officer

SBV South Africa; Test Valley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled finance professional to manage financial transactions and ensure compliance with regulations. In this role, you will be responsible for processing payments, maintaining accurate records, and supporting the governance of financial operations. You'll play a crucial role in managing cash flow, preparing foreign currency payments, and ensuring all financial documentation meets auditing standards. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to a dynamic team and support the organization's financial integrity while adhering to quality management standards.

Qualifications

• 3 years’ experience in a Finance Department.
• Strong understanding of financial processes and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely processing of payments and refunds.
• Maintain fixed assets and manage cash flow effectively.
• Prepare foreign currency payments in accordance with policy.

Skills

Financial Reporting

VAT Compliance

Reconciliation

Cash Management

Accrual Accounting

Education

Matric Qualification with Accounting and Mathematics

3 Year Tertiary Financial Qualification

Studying Towards a Professional Tertiary Financial Qualification

Tools

Syspro

Job description

Description

Ensures that all transactions in area or responsibility are processed timeously

• On time generation of all entries in paying status from Procurement system for area under control (Accounts Payable, Imprest, Petty cash).
• Ensure the accuracy of all GL allocations.
• Review for items of Capital nature or prepaid items.
• Process journals to reallocate cost when GL allocations are incorrect. Ensure the accuracy and validity of all supporting documentation.
• Ensures that all invoices comply with the VAT regulations in order to claim VAT back.
• Escalate all outstanding entries that are not timeously loaded or receipted.
• Process all manual entries, not generated from the sub ledgers, on the Bank statement in the Cashbook.
• Maintain fixed assets in the asset register in terms of Addition, Disposals, Transfer and revaluation.
• Process all billing in area of responsibility
  
  

Payment and refund processing

• Responsible for:
• On time processing of all payments and refunds in area of control.
• Accuracy and completeness off payments.
• All reconciliations that support payments are in balance (Groups and Large National vendors).
• All vendors are paid within payment terms (Groups and Large National vendors)
• All Imprest and Petty cash accounts are refunded within timelines.
• All employee refunds are processed within timelines.
• All statutory payments are processed within timelines
  
  

Accruals and reallocations

• Raise accruals for all receipted open orders on procurement report.
• Raise accruals for all recurring expenses in area of control.
• Reverse accruals when payments are generated from procurement system.
  
  

Reconciliations

• Responsible for Balance sheet recons for area of responsibility.
• Ensure only valid entries in Balance sheet recons and resolve reconciling items timeously.
  
  

Master file administration

• Load suppliers on the financial system
• Load suppliers on the Banking system
• Ensure completed supporting documentation
• Maintain Asset Setup in Syspro with regards to Asset Type, Branch, Asset Owner, Location, Depreciation Code etc.
• Maintain Banking matrix for all Bank platforms
• Maintain all user setups with Banks
  
  

Prepare Foreign currency payments and control

• Prepare the foreign payments in accordance with forex policy payments.
• Maintain register for all foreign currency received and issued, to reconcile with foreign currency on hand at all times.
• Follow up to ensure that reconciliation and unused forex are submitted to finance within 5 days after returning from overseas trip, escalate where necessary. Escalate non adherance
• Perform a physical cash count on a monthly basis
  
  

Petty Cash

• Responsible for the issuing Petty Cash at Support Office
• Verify that the correct level of authority has been attained before releasing funds.
• Balance funds on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Escalate outstanding submission timeously for Support Office
  
  

Maintain Treasury Function

• Determine daily the cash balance and requirements for next day and submit to Finance Manager
• Maintain bank balances at an optimum level
• Compile daily cashflow input sheets
  
  

Manage Capex allocation

• Issue Capex in line with Capex policy
• Maintain Capex register for monthly reporting
  
  

General office administration

• Keeps record of all financial documentation for auditing purposes
• Ensure all Filling are done within agreed time frames
  
  

Adhoc

• Assist with any Adhoc duties as when required.
  
  

Governance

• Subscribe and align to SBV Services' ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Standards, ensuring the department’s processes and quality management system is at all times in compliance with the standard.
• Support SBVs ESG journey, reporting on and managing the ESG requirements to ensure a positive reflection and outcome
  
  

Lead as an Ambassador and executor of Change.

• Act as a change management architect in periods of change to ensure business continuity.
• Manage the integration of business units into a seamless end to end solution for customers.
• Effectively communicate and embed new processes and procedures as they occur, addressing or escalating matters/ concerns to the SME’s (subject matter experts) when required.
• Facilitate the necessary presentations, workshops, or forums to ensure consistent and accurate communication is given across one’s portfolio
  
  

Requirements

3 years’ experience in a Finance Department

Minimum Requirements: Education

• Matric Qualification with Accounting and Mathematics.
• External: 3 Year tertiary financial qualification
• Internal: studying towards a 3-year professional tertiary financial qualification with first year successfully completed
  
  

Work Level

Skilled

Job Type

Permanent

Salary

Market Related

EE Position

No

Location

Houghton