Responsibilities:

• Assisting the Financial Director: Providing support on all financial matters.
• Managing Customer and Supplier Accounts: Overseeing all aspects of customer and supplier accounts, including setting up accounts with terms and conditions, performing account reconciliations, addressing and resolving customer and supplier queries, ensuring timely payments, following up on overdue payments, reviewing debt recovery procedures, suspending supply of goods and services to overdue customers, and sending invoices and statements.
• Bookkeeping Functions: Maintaining and balancing accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll expenses, and managing cash collections. Duties include capturing daily financial transactions, updating the general ledger, processing cash books from bank statements, allocating receipts and payments, reconciling customer and supplier accounts, and processing credits and discounts.
• Inventory Management: Creating new stock and barcodes in the Pastel system, maintaining stock codes, managing inventory journals and adjustments, and capturing stock into the system after calculating the cost of goods.
• Office Administration: Ordering stationery and office supplies, ensuring all filing, capturing, and general records are up to date.
• Reporting: Sending out weekly sales and stock-on-hand reports to the sales team.
• Other Responsibilities: Supporting the warehouse team when needed, booking flights, accommodation, and car rentals for staff, applying company policies and processes, identifying and implementing process improvements, and performing other ad hoc tasks as required.

Requirements

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Diploma, Certificate, or Financial Qualification
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a financial environment, with a focus on debtors, creditors, credit control, inventory management, and sales reporting
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and practices related to debtors and creditors
• Knowledge of Taxation (VAT)
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to exercise sound judgment and initiative
• High attention to detail, with a focus on accuracy and precision
• Strong planning and organizational abilities
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word) and accounting software