Accountant / Senior Bookkeeper Soweto

Our Client in Soweto is looking for an experienced Accountant to join their team.

Responsibilities:

1. Coordinate credit applications
2. Set up new creditors with full contact details and get banking account details
3. Sole point of contact with suppliers regarding accounting matters, receipt of invoices, and statements
4. Maintain creditor database
5. Check supplier invoices for block stamp completion by departments and against supporting documents and capture, using correct GL accounts
6. Follow up with suppliers for credit notes for wrong invoices, short supply, etc.
7. Debit and credit transaction matching
8. Obtain statements from suppliers
9. Reconcile statements using Excel template
10. Ensure that supplier invoices are processed for payment in accordance with supplier payment terms
11. Prepare documents for payment for all payments except Salaries, supported either by Excel template or block-stamped documents, approved by HoDs
12. Process creditor journals to fix accuracy of creditor accounts
13. Process payments from bank statements to creditors
14. Generate a creditors age analysis at each month end after completion of processing of invoices and payments and review it for unusual items
15. Reconcile age analysis to creditors control account for review

Non-Member Customers / Debtors:

1. Set up new debtors accounts on instruction from HoDs, with full contact details
2. Process invoices on instruction from HoDs and send to customers
3. Sole point of contact with debtors regarding accounting matters, invoices, statements, payments
4. Send statements to debtors after each month end when all transactions for the month have been processed
5. Follow up with debtors regarding overdue accounts (using approved 3 stage email templates) and record feedback from them
6. Process debtor journals to fix accuracy of debtor accounts
7. Process payments from bank statements to debtors
8. Generate a debtors age analysis at each month end after completion of processing of invoices and payments and review it for unusual items
9. Reconcile age analysis to debtors control account for review
10. Debit and credit transaction matching

Fixed Asset Register & Recon to GL:

1. Balance Sheet Reconciliations and Schedules

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE FULL JOB SPEC