Assistant Accountant

What you’ll be doing

As part of your role, your responsibilities will include:

Creditors Function

• Capture all invoices ensuring all postings are correct by product, region, platform, brand, where appropriate and in alignment with agreements or prior billing.
• Perform vendor reconciliations and resolve queries.
• Prepare bi-weekly payments, ensuring that the correct amounts and suppliers are paid.
• Match vendor invoices and payments in Navision/Business Cloud (BC).
• Create new vendors & obtain proof of bank details for all changes to banking details or new vendors.
• Run vendor open items reports weekly and provide commentary for any long outstanding items.

Debtors Function

• Bill transaction volumes and related fees to the relevant entities in line with the contracts ensuring all postings are correct by product, region & brand where appropriate.
• Ensure timeous receipt of funds.
• Match customer invoices and payments in Navision.

Asset Management

• Record all intangible, fixed and domain and trademark asset transactions including additions and disposals in the accounting system.
• Run monthly amortisation and depreciation.
• Reconcile the asset registers to the general ledger.

Financial Reporting

• Preparation of income statement and balance sheet reconciliations with relevant commentary for the areas or responsibility, including open items, opex, prepayments, marketing, etc.

Audit & Corporate Governance

• Assist with the preparation of the quarterly and annual audit files and providing audit evidence.
• Effectively communicate with auditors to ensure all audit queries are adequately resolved.
• Ensure that all controls are adhered to and documented for SOX compliance.

Financial Staffing

• Effectively work as a team with relevant team members.
• Communicate clearly and effectively at all levels; both internally and externally to ensure expectations are met and potential problems escalated timeously.

Ad Hoc Duties

• Draft process notes detailing how and why monthly tasks are performed to ensure business continuity.
• Archive all financial information.
• Assistance with testing of processes before implementation on Navision or BC.
• General administration related to the entities responsible for.
• This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. You may be required to complete other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.

Essential skills you’ll bring to the table

The necessary skills that we require for this role include:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and effectively
• Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams, with a focus on achieving shared goals
• Expertise in managing multiple projects simultaneously, with a track record of delivering on time and within scope
• Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring high standards of quality in all outputs
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing environments and priorities, maintaining effectiveness in dynamic situations
• Diploma or Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 3-5 years’ accounting experience in a similar role
• Experience in full Trial Balance, Reconciliations and preparing variance analysis commentary
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve
• It would be great if you also have some of the following skills:
• Experience in audit, fixed / intangible asset management would be advantageous
• Completed Articles
• Experience in Microsoft Dynamics Navision or Business Central
• Experience in FloQast
• Experience in IBM Planning Analytics/TM1/Cognos