Digital Commerce: Assistant Accountant

Join our Digital Commerce team which has reinvented online shopping across South Africa. Sixty60 has changed the game for ecommerce in South Africa and this is just the start. We are continuing to digitally transform the business, and in doing so, are looking for highly talented people to join our team.

Role Purpose

The purpose of the Assistant Accountant role is to execute financial administrative functions including all processes relating to non-cash tender types within the Digital Commerce Finance function. The role supports process efficiency and improvement through the effective reconciliation of accounts, facilitating the creation and submission of orders & invoices, preparation of financial data & journals, reports and maintenance of financial documentation and records. The role requires a meticulous individual with well-developed organisational skills and the ability to provide excellent financial administrative support.

Role Description

Reconciliations:

• Perform sales/tender reconciliations between various systems, ensuring all recons are done daily / weekly and investigate and resolve any issues identified.
• Liaise with IT Solutions team to promptly resolve any missing sales/tenders and other related variances.
• Perform full scope of reconciliations and escalate any discrepancies to resolve reconciling items.
• Perform weekly Driver tip reconciliations.

General Ledger and clearings:

• Process weekly banking clearing journal entries and liaise with Data Accountant to ensure alignment.
• Execute weekly ledger account clearings in SAP, to ensure no historic open line items

Month end/Year end tasks:

• Process all month end/year end related finance journals (accruals & corrections).
• Ensure completeness of all month end/ year end related ledger expenses.
• Compile monthly Intercompany listing and liaise with the relevant teams to investigate and reconcile.
• Follow up on all outstanding invoices, within Expense creditors cut-off timelines.
• Complete month end team checklist, highlighting any areas of concern.

Finance administration:

• Coordinate the accurate creation of orders and submission of invoices within agreed deadlines, ensuring all required authorisations are obtained.
• Assist with investigations into anomalies on customer accounts.
• Support vendor master data maintenance and facilitate new vendor additions in liaison with Expense Creditors
• Provide support and backup for the creation of purchase orders (in SAP), including associated goods receipts where applicable
• Communicate with suppliers regarding invoicing and payment queries, and resolve these timeously in collaboration with the Expense Creditors department.
• Update and coordinate signing and filing of vendor legal contracts for Digital Commerce.
• Work with the Digital Commerce Finance team to streamline reporting efficiencies and improvements.
• Update and maintain all related financial data (in SAP), records and files as per company policies ensuring accuracy and integrity of information is maintained.

Audit & Internal controls:

• Support the auditing processes throughout the financial year and provide auditors with requested reports and data.
• Provide an additional line of review of all risk and fraud related dashboards/reconciliations.
• Escalate any potential risks to Fraud team and management.
• Assist the team with ad hoc tasks and responsibilities as required

Adhoc duties and assistance:

• Assist the team with adhoc tasks and responsibilities as required

Qualifications and experience

Essential:

• Degree or National Diploma in Finance, Accounting or a related field.
• Working knowledge of SAP.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar capacity or role, processing and executing financial administrative, reconciliation and reporting activities in a corporate or retail environment.
• Well-developed knowledge and understanding of financial and accounting concepts and principles.
• Proficiency in MS Office 365 with intermediate Excel skills to prepare detailed spreadsheets using formulas.
• Experience or knowledge of a cash/banking environment, involving ledger control and variance resolution.

Preferred:

• Experience or knowledge of a cash/banking environment, involving ledger control and variance resolution.

Key competencies and work ethic

• Motivated self-starter with personal energy and drive.
• Quick learner - Rapidly learns new tasks relevant to own job and quickly commits information to memory. Rapid understanding of newly presented information and applies it to own role.
• Analytical thinker– Demonstrates ability to understand and integrate data from various sources to come to sound conclusions.
• Detailed & rule-orientated - Follows procedures, vigilantly watches over work processes, tasks and outputs to ensure accuracy and initiates action to correct any quality or data integrity concerns.
• Organised - Plans and organises own work effectively and delivers against deadlines and quality standards. Focuses personal efforts on achieving results aligned to organisational objectives.
• Able to work under pressure while prioritising under tight time constraints.
• Communication skills – Good spoken and written fluency in English along with the ability to convey information and data clearly, accurately and succinctly.
• Team player and collaborative partner – Builds meaningful and sound relationships both internally and externally. Manages supplier expectations well.

Our Group and all its operating companies is committed to creating, embracing, and preserving a diverse workplace that values the unique talents, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities that enrich our organisation. A place where everyone matters and feels included.

We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally.

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If you don’t hear from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful. Any personal information collected as part of your application will be destroyed, securely, in accordance with South African legislation.