Clerk: Revenue (Fixed-Term Contract)

Ackermans; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 167,000 - 257,000; Part time

Job summary

Ackermans is seeking a Clerk: Revenue on a fixed-term basis to join our in-house finance team at the Cape Town Support Centre. The role focuses on analysing and reconciling revenue across cash, card, and GL entries, reporting to the Accountant: Revenue.

Key duties include daily cash and card reconciliations, maintaining journals, and supporting audits. The successful candidate will have a finance qualification and strong numerical skills, with attention to detail and the ability to work

Qualifications

• Finance diploma or certificate is essential.
• A finance degree is preferred.
• Experience in reconciliation and financial administration is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile store revenue transactions daily and analyse variances.
• Perform daily reconciliation of cash and card transactions.
• Post journals and manage unmapped bank entries.
• Support internal and external audit teams with documentation.
• Maintain accurate record keeping and Sharepoint filing.

Skills

MS 365

Excel

Interpersonal skills

Independent work

Attention to detail

Numerical ability

Deadline driven

Work under pressure

Volume handling

Education

Finance diploma/certificate

Finance degree (preferred)

Tools

MS 365

Excel

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clerk: Revenue (Fixed-Term Contract) to join our team. This position is based at our Support Centre in Kuilsriver, Cape Town and will be part of a very diverse and vibrant Finance team.We're a fully in-office team.This position will report directly to the Accountant: Revenue .

The Clerk: Revenue with be responsible to analyse and reconcile the store revenue transactions.

Key responsibilities:

1) Reconciliation:

1.1) Cash

• Perform daily reconciliation of the cash bankable amount per store to the bank statement amount (On the reconciliation system)

• Follow up on all exceptions with banks & CIT company

• Correct, re-assign and release deposits, surpluses and shortages with incorrect store reference numbers for assigned stores.

• Prepare & post journals for unmapped bank entries not posted by recon system (bank recon items).

1.2) Card

• Perform daily reconciliation of all the card transactions between the third parties and point of sale information

• Follow up on all exceptions with banks, gift card providers, all value-added services (VAS) & Tenacity

1.3) GL Reconciliation

• Perform all revenue general ledger reconciliations (excluding bank accounts)

• Analyse the root cause of all reconciliation variances & conclude appropriate corrective system action required.

1.4) Sales Clearing

• Perform weekly balancing of sales clearing general ledger account

• Investigate and resolve variances on weekly sales balancing

2) Administration

2.1) Buy aid

• Prepare & post monthly buy aid commission and sales journals

2.2) Internal & external Audit Team / Operations

• Confirm the stores’ banking status with the internal audit team

• Provide accurate supporting documents to external audit team

2.3) Record Keeping

• File away all the business documents & save electronic documents on the assigned finance folders on Sharepoint (or Other), in accordance with the Personal Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

2.4) Journals

• Posting of accrual journals, according to the accounting system requirements

2.5)Trend analysis

• Identify trends in cash & card reconciliation differences noted on the reconciliation system

Qualifications required:

Essential:

• Relevant Finance Diploma / Certificate

Preferred:

• Relevant Finance Degree

Knowledge required:

• Financial Reconciliations

• Balancing stores sales to point of sale in the stores

• Good knowledge of financial administration and basic accounting principles and application thereof (debits, credits, journals, reconciliations)

Experience required:

Essential:

• 1-2 years’ relevant finance administration experience, including strong reconciliation experience

Preferred:

• Retail experience

Skills required:

• Computer skills – MS 365

• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills

• Interpersonal skills

• Ability to work independently as well as in a team

• Attention to detail

• Above average numerical ability

• Deadline driven

• Ability to work under pressure

• Able to deal with large volumes of work