Junior Accountant

Skill Farm Members Are Invited to Apply for the Following Role:

Responsibilities:

1. Check documentation to identify deviations from set accounting procedures and practices on payments, receipts, accruals, prepayments, recoverable and advances reporting results to immediate supervisor for appropriate action.
2. Generate and dispatch financial documents and check that financial entries created in the accounting system are backed by adequate supporting documents.
3. Maintain manual or system-based records of process requests, enquiries, complaints, claims, payment vouchers and reconciliation statements and identify queries relating to discrepancies which need to be escalated to the immediate supervisor, providing information and support to enable the query to be resolved as soon as possible.
4. Respond to queries raised on a daily basis from staff, other finance sections or external clients (e.g. debtors) as appropriate, investigating queries where necessary to ensure a prompt and accurate response.
5. Perform allocation and a basic level of reconciliation based on predefined parameters for various clearing accounts, debtor, creditor, petty cash, reimbursement, deduction and accrual accounts so that all transactions are appropriately and accurately booked in the correct accounts.

Experience / Qualification / Knowledge / Skills:

1. More than 3 years of experience in Finance & Insurance Accounts.
2. 10 Years schooling or equivalent.
3. Computer literate with proficiency in the use of MS Office, particularly Excel.
4. Ability to multitask.