Sub Accountant

Job Purpose

• Facilitate and consolidate payments to
• suppliers every month. To investigate claims, discrepancies and ensure credits
• are passed.

Key Responsibilities

Cashbook Control

• Review EFT requests received from the
• Business for correct levels of authority and sign off; for original supporting
• documentation; and for GL allocations.
• Capture documents and raise the relevant
• journal entry in SAP for Head Office payments.
• Set up SAP and Online Banking EFT
• payments.
• Regularly review and clear the bank
• clearing accounts in the general ledger and follow up of uncleared items
• (unallocated deposits etc.)
• Capture debit order payments in the
• general ledger.
• Perform staff debtor account
• reconciliations for certain business areas and follow up.
• Prepare the national Telkom account for
• payment and preparing the relevant journals for allocation.
• Prepare journals for posting to the
• general ledger.
• Exercise control over the Head Office
• petty cash box, approve petty cash requests, reconcile the account and request
• reimbursement.
• Allocate deposits in the branch bank
• accounts on a daily basis
• Prepare and process foreign payments,
• ensuring that supporting documents have been appropriately authorised, accurate
• banking details are included on the payment documentation, amounts are correct
• and payment is made timeously
• Compile cash forecasting reports at agreed
• reporting intervals and report on significant deviations to management (actual
• vs. forecast)
• Prepare and capture ad-hoc journal entries
• as required by the GL Accountant/Financial Accountant.
• Effective Teamwork and

Self-Management

• Take ownership and accountability for
• tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management in terms of
• planning, prioritising and self-development.
• Follow through to ensure that quality and
• productivity standards of work are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Inform relevant parties in the event of
• tasks or deadlines not met, the potential risks thereof and provide appropriate
• resolution.
• Support and drive the business core
• values.
• Manage colleagues and clients’
• expectations and communicate appropriately.
• Demonstrate willingness to help others and
• “go the extra mile” to meet team targets and objectives.
• Champion training and development of self
• and others through utilising available training opportunities or contributing
• to the development of new training solutions relating to product costing in
• collaboration with national training specialists.
• Participate in regular performance
• appraisals and ensure that own targets and goals are clear and achievable.

KPI’s

• Ledger account
• management and clearing rate
• Outstanding item
• resolution
• Accuracy of
• reconciliations

Deadline

delivery