Creditors Clerk

The Creditors Clerk, based in Milnerton, Cape Town, manages the full creditors function and supports debtors within a fast-paced finance team. The role requires accounting knowledge, attention to detail, initiative, and experience in finance, particularly with Input VAT and cashbook processing.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Full function creditors and limited debtors function
- Ensure invoices are duly authorized for payment
- Capturing creditor invoices within month-end deadlines
- Reconciling creditors statement to creditors account in accounting package
- Liaising with shareholders/staff of various companies within the group
- Monitoring multiple mailboxes
- Maintaining checklists to ensure all creditors invoices have been raised or accrued for in the relevant month and associated payments have been made
- Assist with capturing and reconciling bank account daily
- Proof of payment record-keeping
- Petty cash capturing and reconciling
- Ad hoc requests from management
- Assisting with journal entries
- Collaborating within the broader finance department to ensure accurate financial reporting

**Personal Attributes**
- High level of integrity and professionalism
- Strong numerical and analytical ability
- Reliable, accountable, and takes ownership of assigned tasks
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Detail-oriented with a high degree of accuracy
- Able to manage pressure and meet strict deadlines
- Proactive and solutions-driven mindset

**Qualifications**
- Matric certificate (compulsory)
- A finance-related certificate or diploma (advantageous)
- Basic bookkeeping or accounting training will be beneficial

**Business Skills / Knowledge**
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar creditors/accounts payable role
- Must have worked in a finance department
- Proficient in Xero Accounting Software
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience working with financial deadlines, including month-end processes
- Strong organisational and administrative skills
- Understanding of VAT reconciliations and SARS submissions
- Experience processing cashbooks, performing bank reconciliations, and preparing month-end journal entries

**Industry Skills / Knowledge**
- Understanding of general accounting practices and procedures
- Exposure to finance operations within a group of companies (advantageous)
- Familiarity with supplier management and payment processes
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
- Knowledge of industry-specific compliance and internal control standards (beneficial)

**Job Type**: Permanent

Pay: R18 000,00 - R20 000,00 per month

Application Question(s):

- Do you have a finance-related qualification? Please specify.
- Have you worked in a finance department with at least 3 years of creditors/accounts payable experience?
- Are you proficient in using Xero Accounting Software?
- Have you processed cashbooks, performed bank reconciliations, and prepared month-end journal entries? Specify
- Do you have a good understanding of VAT reconciliations and the process for submitting VAT returns to SARS? Specify experience?

Work Location: In person