Cashbook Clerk

Hannover Re - more than 3,500 employees at locations all over the world. Our strength? Connecting Power: We rely on each other. As a reinsurer, we protect customers in the event of a claim. This requires customised, innovative solutions. Solutions that worked yesterday may be outdated tomorrow. We challenge ourselves and continuously optimise our services, advice and products. All this makes us one of the leading and most profitable reinsurance groups in the world and a reliable employer.

If you have a passion for niche short-term insurance and possess a strong cashbook clerk background in the short-term insurance or reinsurance industry, Compass Insure has an interesting opportunity for a Cashbook Clerk within the Finance unit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintaining cashbook: Capturing entries, preparing premium and claims interface files.
• Processing of invoices and preparation of creditor reconciliations: Ensuring that expenses have been allocated to the correct accounts and VAT has been correctly processed. Extracting vendor list and ensuring that all invoices have been paid and investigating any differences in reconciliations to statements.
• Processing of journals: Capture journals, attach valid support.
• Reconciliations: Prepare reconciliations for fixed assets, various provisions, certain liabilities and debtor accounts.
• MANEX: Prepare a comparison and provide an analysis month on month for management information purposes.
• Stakeholder engagement: Engage with and collaborate with internal team members as well as across teams within the finance and wider teams in the organisation.
• Audit management: Provide all requested information to auditors during the annual internal and external audits. Ensure internal controls are in place with relevant document management for internal and external audits to ensure compliance.

You Come Equipped With:

• Undergraduate qualification in Accounting or Finance or similar business degree.
• Minimum of 2 - 3 years’ relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated ability to distil and communicate complex financial information and reports to various parties.
• Effective time management and accuracy with attention to detail.
• Ability to critically assess and review own work.
• Computer skills – MS Office (Excel - Advanced, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) and SAP (Advantage).

Employment Equity: South African Citizens as qualified by the Employment Equity Act will be given preference in relation to the company’s Employment Equity Plan. A relevant work permit is required if a foreign national or non-South African citizen applies for the role.

What We Offer: A warm culture entrenched in our core values of Responsibility, Drive and We-spirit where professionals team up to create opportunities for our employees and clients.

Benefits: Thorough onboarding, flexible working environment with daily warm lunches at the company's cost. Comprehensive group risk benefits; generous annual and parental leave benefits which put people first as well as great learning and development opportunities aligned to business operations.

A great location within walking distance of the Gautrain, and opposite the Sandton City mall.

If you want to work in a dynamic and global environment, then apply by clicking on the "apply now" button which will take you to a simple and secure platform to share your details with us.

Applications close on Monday, 10 March 2025.

You can find out more about our working environment, your entry options and development opportunities at Compass Insure.