Coordinator: Treasury

The University of the Western Cape seeks a suitably qualified, energetic and experienced individual, to join the Finance Department as Coordinator: Treasury reporting to the Financial Accountant.

Purpose of the Job: Student receipts and journals, student banking details, student payments and general support of treasury functions.

**List of main tasks**:

- Validate and load student banking details for payments to students, Prepare and load student journals for approval
- Provide support for unscheduled and scheduled student payments
- Assist with payments and enquiries in respect of students, 3rd parties and landlords
- Create and maintain a data base of deposits / receipts
- Follow up with monthly unallocated receipts internally and externally
- Create and maintain Treasury standard operating procedures for training and continuity
- Provide support in Uploading and Downloading of Student Banking Accounts,
- Support for all treasury functions
- Provide audit support
- Reconciliation of account

**Minimum Requirements**

**Qualifications and experience**:

- 2 - 5 years’ experience in a Treasury environment
- Experience in a tertiary education institution or treasury environment will be an advantage

**Skills and Competencies**:

- Be able to work independently as well as within a team, take initiative, be reliable, accurate and work under pressure
- Commitment to solving problems rather than merely following procedures
- Good written and verbal communication skills, including the use of electronic media
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Honesty, integrity and trustworthiness
- Ms Word (including creating templates, etc.)
- Ms Excel (not negotiable) using lookups and pivot tables
- Experience with accounting systems or any other ERP system will be a distinct advantage