Financial Controller

Job Functions:

Well-established company with a fast-growing property portfolio located in Hazelwood Pretoria, holds a vacancy for a Financial Controller (Debtors/Creditors).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Overall administrative / processing tasks related to debtors.
• Processing and reporting of collection of all debtors' accounts.
• Managing and collecting debts from company debtors.
• Identify and allocate unknown receipts against relevant tenant account.
• Reporting to Management on the status of the debtor’s book.
• Collection of amounts due within reasonable period.
• Maintain and process customer invoices and deposits.
• Must be able to liaise appropriately with customers telephonically and on email.
• Ensures that all invoices, statements are sent to tenants timeously.
• Dealing with all (internal and external) tenant queries (on e-mail and telephonically), along with reconciliations when necessary.
• Process bank, cards and petty cash – ensuring all bank recons / cashbooks agree and reporting on daily balances.
• Updating client details on finance systems (bank details, VAT number and registration numbers etc.)
• Perform occasional lease audits to ensure all terms and conditions have been accurately captured on MDA.
• Maintain / update filing.
• Assist in reconciling intercompany / intergroup debtor and creditor transactions.
• Provides direct support to the Property Accountants in ensuring that the monthly billing runs smoothly, and all necessary procedures have been performed within specified timeframes.
• Maintain customer master data.
• Any other ad-hoc tasks as required.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience in property debtors would be advantageous
• Related diploma / financial qualification would be beneficial
• MS Excel
• MDA/MRI Property Management Software experience
• Driver’s license and own transport
• Clean ITC and Criminal record, with and commendable references

Additional Requirements:

• Strong financial knowledge, analytical thinker with suitable experience in compiling reports utilising and analysing various data sources and to present it in a user- friendly format.
• Strong financial / numerical ability.
• Proactive approach.
• Ability to prioritize and successfully complete multiple tasks.
• Strong focus on attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to interact with senior management.
• Excellent communication skills with people at all levels in an organization and external customers.
• Must have excellent work ethic - honest, reliable, hardworking, dedicated, takes pride in work carried out.