Finance Associate

Job description

Job purpose

The purpose of the role
is to act as the key point of contact for the Accounts Payable process,
responsible for overseeing and performing day to day finance duties.
Providing an excellent internal client service within the Finance team and to
external teams and vendors.

Major duties and
responsibilities

- Responsible for ensuring that all invoices are
timeously and accurately entered into the invoice approval system.

- Ensure that the expense approval process flows
smoothly. This includes the follow up of outstanding approvals within the
expense management system.

- Posting of client related outlays, receipts
and staff expense claims within the engagement management systems

- Responsible for managing and executing the
internal payment process for local and international payments, including
review of aged reports.

- Provide weekly and monthly reports to finance
team on outstanding payments due.

- Contact Suppliers to obtain monthly statement
of accounts.

- Preparation of monthly vendor reconciliations

- Monitoring and closing tickets relating to the
AP and accounting process.

- Assist with the Guarantee application process.

- Book IC Provisions & maintain IC Tracker
Sheet.

- Responsible for handling all Interfirm
invoices and ensuring that items are properly monitored and tagged for
payment

- Book & Generate IODNs

- Daily logging of cash receipts to assist with
collections and the bank reconciliation process

- Close monitoring and updating bank balances on
a daily basis. Download transactions
from online banking system on a daily basis

- Assist as needed with month-end procedures and
ad hoc finance projects

- Be able to identify opportunity for
efficiencies and seek resolution to these

1.
PROFILE

Education requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in a Finance
Professional Accounting qualification