Accountant at Unitrans

Bojanala Bus requires the services of a qualified accountant who will be based at the Thlabane, Rustenburg Depot. the inciumbent will report to the Financial Manager who will be based at Thlabane.

• To administer general accounting duties including the processing of monthly Government statistical returns, petrol claims, journal vouchers, M1 forecast sheets,  invoices and payments for charges.  The Accountant will also be required to reconcile stocks issues, estimate monthly results, analyse sundry debtor and creditor accounts and produce reports.  In addition to the above the Accountant will be able to perform his / her generic duties relating to company code of conduct, policies and procedures as well as perform duties requested from management.

Minimum Requirements    

• The relevant BCom degree
• 3 years previous experience in the compilation of financial documents is required.
• Must be computer literate
• Must have good communication and interpersonal skills
• Must be figure orientated
• Must be an accurate worker and deadline driven
• Must be prepared to work extended hours when requested to do so.
• Must have own transport

Duties & Responsibilities    
Revenue and Debtors:

• Comparison of flash reports to invoices, general ledger
• Reconciliation of receipts and revenue summaries to deposits (bank statement)
• Agree the debtors' list to the debtors' ledger, to the general ledger to the trial balance monthly
• Review of private hire revenue reconciliations
• Posting of revenue journals
• Identify gaps in daily banking
• Queries from debtors

Review bank reconciliations

• Approve credit notes with supporting documentation (financial manager to follow-up on suspicious credit notes)
• Review of recommendation by credit controller for debt write-offs
• Provide financial manager with list of debtors over their limits and how they are being followed up, bank and debtors balances, the age analysis, list of debtors that have been written off.
• Review report of all approved discounts
• Review credit notes passed with reasons report weekly

Purchasing and Suppliers:

• Review matching of PO, GRN and Invoice
• Review accurate recording of the purchase journal and correct posting to the creditors’ ledger
• Review and approve the reconciliation of the creditors' balance per the creditors' account in the creditors’ ledger to the supplier statements
• Compare creditors' list to the creditors' ledger, to the general ledger to the trial balance monthly for approval by financial manager
• Approve master-file amendments subsequently to agreeing the details of the amendment to the supporting documentation
• Report of all GRNs for which a supplier invoice has not been received
• Review and approve schedule of payments for reasonableness by utilising supporting reports
• Review and approve ad-hoc purchase request for supplier name, amount, quantities (batch)
• Prepare payment schedules for upload on the Standard Bank System (write access to “prepare payment portal”)
• Prepare accrual balance reconciliations

Inventory:

• Review the adjustments to the inventory records based on results of inventory counts for reasonableness and identify trends
• Reconciliation of inventory records to general ledger

Payroll:

• Scrutiny of the general ledger accounts for deductions to confirm that they are being promptly cleared (accruals)
• Review provisions for accuracy