Treasury Administrator at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:

Bank and Cash activities (South Africa and Botswana entities)

• Responsible for coordinating daily processing of foreign and once-off (manual) payments. This includes the set up and coordination of daily releasing of manual payments, processing of payments and clearing of bank suspense accounts
• Administer online bank application platforms, e.g. add and remove payment beneficiaries, manage user access and permissions to FNB Online
• Manage the end-to-end process of confirming daily inward foreign payments as per bank notification
• Check that daily bank statement uploaded successfully into ERP system (complete and accurate)
• Prepare Bank and cash account reconciliations

Month-end and year–end financial close activities

• Align bank account balances in ERP with Bank statement and perform cut-off validation steps
• Manually load bank statements for bank accounts not automated
• Record and validate month end close transactions
• Perform re-classifications, clearing of FX switch accounts
• Prepare month end bank and cash reports

General administrative activities

• Responsible for bank governance, i.e. maintain banking related documentation and manage queries, e.g. KYC, FICA, Bank Mandates, Credit reviews, NDAs etc.
• Update/maintain banking detail confirmations as and when requested by 3rd parties (e.g. audit confirmation letters)
• Perform 3rd party bank account verifications for vendors and customers
• Accountable for internal and external audit deliverables related to Cash and Bank processes
• Provide Treasury support on projects
• Seek opportunities to improve and optimize Treasury processes

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Commerce/Finance related degree or diploma
• Basic accounting knowledge
• Working knowledge of electronic banking systems and ERP systems (e.g. SAP) are preferable
• Strong capability for research and interpretation of a technical nature
• Excel working knowledge
• Good communication and influencing skills
• Ability to effectively interact with diverse stakeholders (e.g. customers, banks and internal stakeholders)
• Attention to detail, meeting deadlines
• Ability to work in an organized manner is critical qualities required for the role