Clerk : Revenue

We have an exciting opportunity for a **Clerk: Revenue** to join our team on a permanent basis. This position is based at our Support Centre in Kuilsriver, Cape Town and will be part of a very diverse and vibrant Finance team. We're a fully in-office team. This position will report directly to the **Accountant: Revenue**.

The **Clerk: Revenue** with be responsible to analyse and reconcile the store revenue transactions.

**Key responsibilities**:

- **Reconciliation**

1.1 Cash
- Perform daily reconciliation of the cash bankable amount per store to the bank statement amount (On the reconciliation system)
- Follow up on all exceptions with banks & CIT company
- Correct, re-assign and release deposits, surpluses and shortages with incorrect store reference numbers for assigned stores.
- Prepare & post journals for unmapped bank entries not posted by recon system (bank recon items).

1.2 Card
- Perform daily reconciliation of all the card transactions between the third parties and point of sale information
- Follow up on all exceptions with banks, gift card providers, all value-added services (VAS) & Tenacity

1.3 GL Reconciliation
- Perform all revenue general ledger reconciliations (excluding bank accounts)
- Analyse the root cause of all reconciliation variances & conclude appropriate corrective system action required.

1.4 Sales Clearing
- Perform weekly balancing of sales clearing general ledger account
- Investigate and resolve variances on weekly sales balancing

**2. Administration**

2.1 Buy aid
- Prepare & post monthly buy aid commission and sales journals

2.2 Internal & external Audit Team / Operations
- Confirm the stores’ banking status with the internal audit team
- Provide accurate supporting documents to external audit team

2.3 Record Keeping
- File away all the business documents & save electronic documents on the assigned finance folders on Sharepoint (or Other), in accordance with the Personal Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

2.4 Journals
- Posting of accrual journals, according to the accounting system requirements

2.5 Trend analysis
- Identify trends in cash & card reconciliation differences noted on the reconciliation system

**Qualifications required**:
Essential:

- Grade 12 (Accounting and Mathematics)

Preferred:

- Relevant Finance Diploma / Certificate

**Knowledge required**:

- Financial Reconciliations
- Balancing stores sales to point of sale in the stores

**Experience required**:
Essential:

- 1-2 years’ relevant finance administration experience, including strong reconciliation experience

Preferred:

- Retail experience

**Skills required**:

- Computer skills - MS 365
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Attention to detail
- Above average numerical ability
- Deadline driven
- Ability to work under pressure
- Able to deal with large volumes of work