Cashbook Clerk

Media Finance has an exciting opportunity for a Cashbook Clerk in their Cape Town office (full-time in office)

Main Purpose of the Role:
To perform bank and general ledger reconciliations for bank accounts, and to capture and process
various payments.

Key Responsibilities:

 Export and upload bank statements into system.
 Daily/Weekly/Monthly bank statement clearing
 Allocating items to debtors, creditors and general ledger
 Ad hoc or once off payments loaded with relevant support, this includes confirmation and
verification of bank details for winners, refunds, debtors refunds etc.
 Load payment runs received from accounts payable team and assign to next team member to
execute next step
 Verify (bank details, payment amount, relevant and applicable support) payment runs
received from team member that initiated the payment run.
 Submit successful payment bathes for first approval
 Notify accounts payable team of any discrepancies or errors found in the payments
 Perform general ledger reconciliations for bank and bank clearing accounts;
 Assist with the completion of the international payments
 Allocate international payments.
 Allocate and clear sweeping transactions between company bank accounts
 Own transfers allocated to the correct bank account
 Credit card allocations to business partners
 Funding credit cards with approved transfers requests.
 Complete international payment schedule with the month’s transactions.
 JIRA first check for business partners bank details validity
 Verify bank details for all new business partners created, successful match ensure business
partners created
 Submit all valid and verified business partner banking details to the systems team to create
the beneficiary on the system.
 Maintain the Jira/Sharepoint new beneficiary creations (new/extensions/updates) including
the follow up needed for the successful beneficiary loading.
 Create beneficiary on bank once system team confirms business partner created and supplies
the new beneficiary number.
 SARS payment allocation and journals for the month.
 Petty cash cost allocations from business.
 Address queries on monthly issues;
 Process various month-end journals and allocations;
 Capture journals as and when required;
 General administrative tasks as and when required;
 Ensure all filing is up to date and easily accessible;
 Ensure all bank support documents are filed and proof op payments available on drive.
 Assist team leader with auditors queries to complete audit correctly by being proactive in
providing relevant information; and
 Ensure adherence to policies and procedures where applicable
 Assisting team members where necessary

Skills and Competencies

 Knowledge: Requires established skills to perform a range of routine activities
 Business expertise: Understands how the assigned duties relate to others in the Team and how the
team integrates with other related teams
 Leadership: Has no supervisory responsibilities; manages own workload
 Problem solving: Recognizes and solves typical problems that can occur in own work Area
without supervisory approval; evaluates and selects solutions from established options
 Impact: Impacts own Team through the quality
of the services or information provided; follows standardized procedures and practices and
receives regular but moderate supervision and guidance
 Interpersonal skills: Uses communication skills to exchange straightforward information
 Pressure resilience
 Results orientation
 Teamwork
 Strong attention to detail
 Initiative
 Planning and organising
 Problem-solving

Qualifications: Grade 12 with accounting as a subject.
Experience: 2-3 years experience in a similar role
Knowledge: Proficient in relevant computer software packages and applications.
VAT knowledge (preferred);
Accounting practices and principles (preferred)

Given the employment equity policy of Media24, preference will be given to suitable candidates from the designated groups.