Cima 3-year Intern

Location: The Campus Bryanston (Hybrid)
- Salary: R15 000.00 - R17 500.00 Per Month
- Bonus: Performance based
- Job Type: 3 Year Internship - Full Time
- Sectors: Accounting, Admin, Finance
- Benefits: Pension

The Financial Controller reports to the Portfolio General Manager, and is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the monthly levy statement and monthly report process under supervision of the FC Support Manager and PM Accountants.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Monthly Statement Run**:

- Receipting all debtors’ accounts, including non H2H cashbooks
- Requesting ABSA Investment Account statements from Finance (internal)
- Billing all debtors (standard monthly charges)
- Loading and updating recurring levy and special levy batches
- Checking and confirming that all readings have been received for capturing
- Loading and updating all electricity/ water/ gas batches as appropriate
- Adding of manual calculations where appropriate
- Creating, maintaining and closing tenant accounts as applicable
- Making adjustments where appropriate, including new accounts upon occupation/ transfer (pro rata changes)
- Processing all debit order payments alongside Finance, EFT bank charges, interest etc
- Reconciling of all current accounts as stated on financials
- Reconciling of suspense accounts
- Reconciling of control accounts
- Charging interest on all overdue debtors ’ accounts, unless authorized otherwise by Portfolio Specialist
- Completion of statement run by sending and/ or printing statements
- Updating of owner details

**Monthly Report Process**:

- Scanning and/ or linking of invoices
- Maintaining of priority rankings list
- Generating monthly financial report from system
- Verifying completeness and accuracy, calculations and accruals to ensure that all priorities and deadlines are met
- Verifying, allocating and posting details of all business transactions to journals as appropriate
- Addressing queries and corrections/ adjustments from Portfolio Specialist prior to sending reports
- Assisting in completion of monthly financial reports by deadline

**Queries**:

- Assisting cell with any queries on systems and processes on monthly Statement Run and Report Run
- Ensuring all cashbooks balance
- Audit Queries

**New Buildings / Developments**:

- New phase take
- on: coordination of welcome packs, handovers and loading
- Registration of new units outside of bulk registration
- Developer billing and receipting
- Assisting with calculation of management fees
- Developer account recons
- Stakeholder liaison

**Budgets**:

- Updating all administration budgets
- Updating 10 year maintenance budgets
- Propall adjustments

**General**:

- Assisting with loading creditor invoices
- Recons: legal, insurance claims, etc.

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATION**:
The applicant must have completed an **Honours degree in Financial Management from a CIMA aligned institution** and have an excellent command of English as written and spoken language.

Previous bookkeeping experience, specifically in the property industry, will be advantageous. Knowledge of bookkeeping practices and generally accepted accounting principles are recommended.

**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES**:
The applicant must have proficient knowledge in the following areas:

- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with role players
- Knowledge of financial administration
- Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy
- Ability to meet deadlines and grasp the urgency of departmental activities

The applicant must demonstrate the following skills:

- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Effective verbal and listening communication skills
- Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
- Numeracy and data entry skills
- Ability to do complex calculations
- Effective organisational skills
- Effective written communication skills
- Computer literacy in MS Office
- Time and work management
- Stress management

The applicant must demonstrate the following personal attributes:

- Patience
- Be honest and trustworthy
- Demonstrate sound work ethics
- Be flexible
- Be deadline driven
- Be a completer/ finisher
- Be able to work independently
- Have strict planning, organisation and execution skills
- Ability to deal effectively with change
- Problem analysis and solving

**WORKING CONDITIONS**:

- There are a number of deadlines and expected turn-around times within this position, which may cause the applicant stress. The applicant is further required to work accurately with a minimum tolerance for data entry errors.
- The applicant will be required to deal with a wide variety of personalities on various matters.
- The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the applicant of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required of the position.