General Ledger Accountant Assistant (Temp) - NOV
(2025-04-01 - 2025-08-31)
Summary of Responsibilities
- Bank reconciliation
- Balance sheet reconciliation
- Intercompany reconciliation
- Assisting with Statutory
Accountant - Setanta College
(2024-07-01 - 2025-01-31)
- Process daily bank transactions accurately and efficiently.
- Manage day-to-day accounting duties including processing of student payments, invoicing of student accounts, Processing of student credit notes and refunds
- Manage the student accounts including close tracking of student payment pattens
- Conduct monthly reconciliations for accounts payable and receivable to ensure precision.
- Conduct various reconciliations for Debtors and Creditors.
- Match accounts within the accounting software for consistency.
- Maintain well-organized and updated financial records.
- File financial records systematically.
- Update and manage accounting databases.
- Implement and measure financial controls to minimize business risk.
- Contribute to month end close by ensuring all GL reconciliations are performed timeously
- Offer support to the finance team for ongoing projects
- Perform routine office tasks, including e-filing, data entry, phone answering, and mail processing.
- Work closely with the student affairs team to ensure student accounts are in good standing for progression
- Any other tasks as delegated by the senior finance team
- Invoicing students at the start of each module
- Processing student payments on the various payment gateways to Sage (Stripe/Opayo/Pay fast/revolut/paypal/Woo Commerce/Bank Transfer etc.)
- Managing student accounts on the SMS (Salesforce) and Sage
- Monitoring and reporting on student payment behaviors
- Processing, tracking and reporting on Student refunds, discounts and scholarships
- Ensuring accurate and up to date records are kept for all Debtors' information
- Posting of bank transactions
- Reporting on Debtors (age analysis, loss of revenue)
- Reporting on average weekly expected collections vs actuals
- Preparing Monthly Management Accounts as rotated in the department
- Managing with monthly and yearend journals – deferred income, accruals, prepayments and yearend adjustments
- Assisting with the preparation of annual financial statements
- Assisting with Audit queries
- Assisting with accreditation submissions
- Ad hoc compliance requirements
- Assisting with end-to-end payroll tasks
Accounts Payable Manager - Catwalk Cosmetics Laboratories Pty Ltd
(2023-03-01 - 2024-02-29)
- Sending out customer payments
- Resolving customer queries
- Sending out a list of outstanding debtors
- Processing out customer statement
- Sending out staff accounts statements
- Preparing journals for adjustments
Junior Bookkeeper - Zen Holdings Pty Ltd
(2022-03-01 - 2023-03-31)
- Processing supplier invoices
- Capturing the cashbook
- Liaising with suppliers & customers
- Closing reconciliations
- Processing customer invoices
Creditors Clerk - Botle Buhle Brands (Pty) Ltd
(2021-08-01 - 2022-02-29)
- Allocating customer payments
- Sending out customer payments
- Resolving customer queries
- Sending out a list of outstanding debtors
- Processing out customer statement
- Sending out staff accounts statements
- Preparing journals for adjustments
Assistant Accountant - National Pride (Pty) Ltd
(2018-10-01 - 2021-07-31)
- Preparing creditors reconciliation
- Liaising with suppliers
- Preparing monthly cash flows
- Assisting with the closing off month ends
- Processing supplier invoices
- Maintaining general ledger accounts
- Requesting statements & pods from suppliers
- Costing of imports
- Ensure Invoices comply with VAT regulations before processing
- Ensure Direct Invoices is properly authorized by Department & Branch Managers
- Out the best production methods
- Consulting with Vendors regarding outstanding Invoices, Credit notes and obtaining monthly statement
- Reconciliation of Vendor Accounts to Open Items Ledger & Statement
- Preparing Cheque Requisitions & Issuing Cheques
Learnership – (Generic management) - Mister Sweet
(2018-02-01 - 2018-11-30)
- Performing factory audits
- Assisting with the placing of materials
- Liaising with team leaders
- Adhere to and meet all deadlines set by Management
