Senior Reconciliation Accountant

Who You Are:

• You have strong interpersonal, communication, problem-solving and analytical skills
• You are committed to delivering quality outputs, with a high concern for accuracy and attention to detail
• You are team orientated and customer focused
• You work well under pressure, with little or no supervision, and display excellent time management skills
• You have a reputation for performing above expectations

What you'll have done before:

Baseline:

• NQF Level 6 (Diploma in Accounting)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience performing accounting reconciliations.
• 1 year experience performing complex reconciliations.
• SAP experience (FI module)

Advantageous:

• NQF level 7 - Degree in accounting
• Previous experience with performing complex intercompany reconciliations and reviewing bank, vendor or GL recons.

Exciting challenge you might face in the role:

• Collaborate with various stakeholders [internal and external] to ensure that accurate data is timeously recorded.
• Deliver excellence, amidst tight deadlines

What you'll be doing:

INTERCOMPANY AND GENERAL LEDGER RECONCILIATIONS:

Reconciling assigned intercompany and general ledger accounts, following up on unreconciled items and ensuring that all reconciliations and journal correctionsare approved to ensure effective business operations.

OPERATIONS ACTIVITIES:

Perform month-end and year-end activities for accounts reconciliation by ensuring that the relevant activities and processes are followed, and deadlines are met in accordance to financial regulations.
Please note month-end and year-end overtime may be required.

QUERY HANDLING 

manage new and ongoing queries through logging and resolving queries to ensure adherence to with agreed SLA.

REVIEWING BANK RECONCILIATION

Review the monthly bank age analysis and commentary, by providing a guidance and a plan of action to clear open items, ensuring that there are few or no long outstanding bank open items.

REVIEWING VENDOR RECONCILIATIONS

Review assigned vendor reconciliations monthly for South Africa and the affiliates.

ACCOUNTING ACTIVITIES

Ensure that all accounting journal entries are processed timeously and accurately.