FINANCE CLERK

Closing Date: 
Friday, July 13, 2018
Location of the Job: 
Namibia
Position: FINANCE CLERK
Reports to: ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT
 
Purpose of the Job:
A finance clerk is responsible for providing financial, administrative and clerical services. This includes processing and monitoring payments and expenditures, processing and monitoring receipts and revenue, preparing and monitoring the ledgers on the system.
 
Key Accountabilities:
 
FINANCE FUNCTION AND RELATED REPORTING
1) Perform the day to day processing of accounts payable, disbursements, receipts and loan consolidations to ensure that accounts are maintained in an effective, up to date and accurate manner.
2) Ensure that monthly General ledger accounts are reconciled.
3) Manual processing of refunds.
4) Ensure the daily pay out report is extracted and distributed to Head office and relevant parties
5) Follow up and investigate Loans not disburse daily and obtain correct banking details to submit payments within 24 – 48 hours since failure of loan.
6) Prepare cash flow report daily and ensure that it balances back to actual bank statements.
7) Processing of debtor receipts on the system on a daily basis.
8) Investigate exception report validations on request from Assistant accountants.
9) Investigate variances between daily disbursement reports and actual pay-outs as per the cash flow report.
10) Investigate and terminate loan accounts received from Arrears department
11) Assist in prepare of monthly balance sheet reconciliations and bank reconciliation
12) Assist in provide to audit queries in area of responsibility.
13) Prepare monthly journals and adjustments
14) Prepare creditors reconciliations and prepare for payment on a daily basis.
15) Maintain a filing system for all financial documents.
16) Processing of Petty cash cheque expenses and ensure that Petty cash register is up to date as well as actual cash balancing
17) Assistance to all in Finance with adhoc functions
18) On time follow-up with the Bank regarding unallocated receipts to be allocated to correct client loan accounts
19) Reconciled all unallocated cash accounts on a daily basis and prepare necessary journals for reallocating matching items for assistant accountant to review and approve.
20) Daily Loan Book reconciliations.
LEARNING AND GROWING:
1) Identify and attending training courses in line with skills required of the position
 
SUPERVISION ACTIVITIES
1) Assist in tasks and responsibilities of co-workers on your level to ensure the department function as a team and not by an individual.
Knowledge and Experience Required of Job Holder:
 Grade 12 (25 points)
 Accounting Diploma / 2-3 years relevant Experience
 Nice-to-Have (Desirable not Essential) Accounting degree
 2-3 years accounting experience
 Numerical sills, computer literacy, communication and interpersonal skills
 Relevant accounting systems knowledge or practical experience will be an advantage
 Deadline driven
13 July 2018

 

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