Permanent - Assistant Accountant - Cape Town - South Africa

• Full admin function including processing of cash book, jnls as required.
• Management of administration staff ensuring full compliance with adopted accounting standards and best practice
• Dailey, weekly and monthly reporting to head office.
• Staff roistering and maintenance of payroll records for submission to heads office
• Meeting all deadlines as set out by head office
• Ensure store compliance with set policy and procedures
• Review and reporting back to the executive committee on a monthly basis on store performance.
• Supplier relations and direct payments in consultation with head office
• Liaise with external auditors in conjunction with group Finance
• Any other duties or functions as determined by Store Manager or Head Office
• Safe guarding of company assets specifically stock , assets and cash
• Able to assist staff manager as required
• Receiving GRV sequence and verification checks, scrutinising the integrity of GRV’s and its origin
• Checking process of GRV’s done including accuracy (balancing GRV to invoice)
• Creditor claims and control – paper flow from receiving/buying to Head Office and controlling creditors deductions
• Service department counts and verification
• Service department wastage control – recording and archiving for later use
• Auditing of service department purchases, correct listing of products under correct departments
• Cashier Shorts & Overs weekly
• Daily report back on GRV’s not done and the reasons for not completing it
• Auditing and balancing of transactions between Arch and the accounting system
• Daily spot-checks of cashier floats while they are working (unannounced)
• Weekly cash office float balancing
• ATM balancing and loading by CASH OFFICE PERSONNEL, not management
• Weekly tracking of Debtors and dues
• System (Arch) user permissions and checks on a weekly basis

Qualification:
Bcom accounting (Or similar accounting qualification) advantage

Experience:

• 5 year ‘s minimum working experience (post articles)
• 3 year managing staff
• FMCG experience would be advantages

Computer Packages:-

• Pastel (Required) Evolution (advantage)
• Excel (Required)
• Arch advantage