Accounts Officer

SUMMARY:
PURPOSE:

Gijima Group Finance is recruiting for an Accounts Officer, responsible for the capturing of financial information, pulling and analysing reports and doing reconciliations.

POSITION INFO:
FORMAL EDUCATION:

• Grade 12
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in finance or accounting (advantageous)

• Proven experience in working under tight deadlines and sticking to these deadlines
• Accounting Diploma advantageous (advantageous)
• Meeting the practical training requirements of the South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA) and admitted to the Institute
• Minimum of 7 years relevant experience in a Financial Shared services corporate environment
• Strong financial administration required
• Highly skilled in mathematics and finance

• Financial perspective
• Manage operational expenses
• Minimise private calls
• Manage tools of trade
• Reduce operational expenses
• Relationship management
• Maintain relationships with colleagues, management and internal customers
• Execution of control functions
• Ensuring reconciliations are carried out for relevant accounts, e.g. GL's, payroll vendors, fixed assets, etc

• Prepares, reviews, analyses and presents financial data and reporting documentation
• Balance sheet, Income statement, Cash flow Management packs
• Exco pack cash reports

• Provides assistance to auditors in requests for information (e.g. supporting documents) during the audit process

• Prepares, processes and follows up on journals and maintains various ledgers.
• Conducts monthly recons and variance analysis on IRIA and Prepayments and all other Balance sheet GLs.
• Do FI Billing and Credit notes
• Prepare Revenue reconciliations
• Manage Intercompany transactions and loan accounts

• Processing and reconciliation of company petty cash expenses
• Releasing of creditor payments to the bank
• Resolve outstanding items on bank accounts
• Managing the company credit card process

• Post payroll and manage the payroll vendor payments
• Recon and manage Payroll balance sheet GLs e.g. Leave, Pay at risk

• Full Asset Management process, including PPE reporting

• Ensure month end tasks are carried out and according to timelines
• Processing of Month end and year end journal entries

• Contribute towards the development and enhancement to financial processes and policies
• Adhere to all Gijima policies and procedures
• Statutory schedules, capture on SARS e-filling and payments on SARS and STD BOL - (PAYE, SDl, UIF, ETI, MITA)
• Vat 201 Calc, recon, reporting and SARS e-filling
• Full STATS function
• Full Sars e-filling function
• SAP FI Testing and test packs
• Detail knowledge of AP and AR Financial processes

• Advanced Microsoft office capability and experience
• SAP experience

• Excellent organisational and own time management skills
• Knowledge of accounting principles required
• Maintain a high-level confidentiality and professionalism 
• Possess good interpersonal skills and telephone etiquette
• Effective people skills
• Functional credibility – quick and accurate worker
• Able to manage strict control over compliance of controls
• Good operational knowledge of an integrated financial system
• MS Office literate
• Ability to contribute effectively to the team
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• A sound understanding of the operational activities of the relevant Group Services business units and processes
• Punctuality with delivery, and quality assurance of all output assigned or requested
• Skilled in project management (advantageous)

• Service delivery to the Gijima business units and other corporate finance environments
• Compliance with relevant timelines
• Effective, efficient and timely transfer of relevant financial and management information to all relevant levels of the organization
• Improvement initiatives implemented (e.g. process enhancements)
• Service delivery to the finance management team and corporate environment

• Decision making
• Logical thinking and problem solving
• Planning and organising
• Communication
• Report writing

• Presentable
• Business insights
• Capable of exercising judgement
• Work according to time scales
• Ability to work under pressure
• Team player and able to influence others
• Good interpersonal relationships