Gauteng: Treasury Assistant posted by Execustaff South Africa (Pty) Ltd

• The Treasury Assistant supports financial manager team in managing company cash flow, banking activities, and financial reporting

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Treasury Management

• Daily reconciliation of the bank
• Ensure proper house-keeping of all banking details and bank users/approvers
• Ensure that the Bank closes on time at month end
• Ensure that the bank is always error free and that all queries are followed up timeously
• Ensure that all transactions are processed within 48hrs from transaction date
• Submission of monthly recon for Finance Manager and CFO approval and submit to RHQ
• Provision of audit reports to RTC / RHQ / Auditors when required
• Assist with cash flow
• Assist with managing forex & reporting to RTC
• Liaison with external banking institutions
• Assist with SARB applications

External Audit

• Fulfill the role of contact point for External Auditors by providing information required and assist with completion of the audit
• Resolve queries raised by External Auditors to complete audit
• Assist with External Audit as contact point, info gathering and prep

Tax and Statutory

• Assist with calculations and information gathering for completion of all Tax submissions and statutory fillings including information manipulations
• Act as secondary back up to Tax specialist for all Tax and Company Secretarial requirements
• Assist Tax Specialist in all Tax and Statutory filing and calculations
• Assist with tax related issues and ensure they are resolved to minimize risk to the company
• Assist in tax management

Month end closing assistance

• Assist with month end closing
• Prepare journals for review of Finance Manager of all normal vendors
• Ensure accurate recording of SG&A and analysis thereof.
• Assist with month end clearing 

Corporate Card Management

• Act as Administrator for all corporate cards
• Assist Employees with Corporate Card Limits
• Assist Employees with Corporate Card Queries
• Maintenance of Corporate Card System
• Ad-hoc Corporate Card Duties

Balance Sheet Recons

• Downloading relevant accounts and investigating all entries
• Providing monthly Balance Sheet econ by the deadline date for Financial Manager review\

Reporting

• Assist with monthly reports and management of deadlines and targets 
• Adhoc reporting to CFO, Financial Manager, HQ, RHQ, Auditors and RTC

 Financial / Job Scope Interaction with (Internal):

• Analytical and good financial skills

Organization impact / Influence
Interaction with (Internal):

• CFO
• Other departments
• Employees

External Interaction with:

• All vendors and suppliers and Banks
• Treasury and HQ in relation to any information that is requested from time to time

Nature and Purpose of the Interaction: 

• Query resolution and relationship management both internally and externally

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Not a supervisory role

Required Experience

• Min. 3 years’ experience in reconciling accounts to statements
• Microsoft Office (i.e. Word, Excel,)
• Able to work overtime when required, especially during month end

Required Competencies

• Analytical and good financial skills
• Detail oriented and highly organized
• In-depth knowledge of tax
• Ability to resolve queries fast 
• Good Communication skills 
• Time management and ability to prioritize
• MS office competent (advanced Level)
• Self-starter and proactive
• High learning aptitude
• High level attention to detail

Educational Requirements 

• B Com Accounting/Financial Management
• SAIPA/ SAICA/CIMA Qualification will be an added advantage

Travel Requirements

• The position is office bound and there is no travelling required

Please only apply should you meet all of the requirements. Should you not receive any feedback from us with regards to your application after 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.