Assistant Accountant

BGA Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is looking for an experienced Ass Accountant to join their team in Stellenbosch. Key responsibilities include coordinating credit applications, maintaining creditor databases, processing supplier invoices, and generating age analyses for creditors and debtors. Experience with accounting software such as Jonas is likely essential. Note: This is not the full job specification.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate credit applications.
• Set up new creditors and obtain banking details.
• Maintain creditor database and check supplier invoices.
• Follow up on credit notes and reconcile statements.
• Process payments and generate age analysis for creditors.

Job description

Overview

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

Responsibilities

• Coordinate credit applications
• Set up new creditors on Jonas with full contact details and get banking account details
• Sole point of contact with suppliers re accounting matters, receipt of invoices and statements
• Maintain creditor data base
• Check supplier invoices for block stamp completion by depts, and against supporting documents and capture into Jonas, using correct GL accounts
• Follow up with suppliers for credit notes for wrong invoices, short supply etc
• Debit and credit transaction matching on Jonas
• Obtain statements from suppliers
• Reconcile statements to Jonas using Excel template; Ensure that supplier invoices are processed for payment in accordance with supplier payment terms
• Prepare documents for payment for all payments exc Salaries, supported either by Excel template or block-stamped docs, approved by HoDs.
• Process creditor journals to fix accuracy of Jonas creditor accounts
• Process payments from bank statements to creditors in Jonas
• Generate a creditors age analysis at each month end after completion of processing of invoices and payments and review it for unusual items
• Recon age analysis to creditors control account, for review by Bookkeeper
• Non-Member Customers / Debtors: Set up new debtors accounts on Jonas on instruction from HoDs, with full contact details
• Process invoices on instruction from HoDs and send to customers
• Sole point of contact with debtors re accounting matters, invoices, statements, payments
• Send statements to debtors after each month end when all transactions for the month have been processed.
• Follow up with debtors re overdue debtors (using approved 3 stage email templates) and record feedback from them.
• Process debtor journals to fix accuracy of Jonas creditor accounts
• Process payments from bank statements to debtors in Jonas
• Generate a debtors age analysis at each month end after completion of processing of invoices and payments and review it for unusual items
• Recon age analysis to debtors control account, for review by Bookkeeper
• Debit and credit transaction matching on Jonas
• Fixed Asset Register & Recon to GL
• Balance Sheet Recons and Schedules

PLEASE NOTE : THIS IS NOT THE FULL JOB SPEC