Fund Accountant
Sanlam
Date: 15 hours ago
City: Pretoria, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time
About Us
Our vision is to be the preferred partner to Corporate and Public Sector by providing an awesome client experience and comprehensive solutions that enable the financial resilience and prosperity of those entities and their employees. We tap into over 100 years of expertise to provide cost-effective Employee Benefits and Healthcare Solutions that enable financial confidence for our members. We enable our clients to make better retirement and risk decisions today through determined and passionate thought leadership and best-in-class people, innovative products and proven processes all designed to help people live a better life tomorrow.
We believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives every individual the opportunity to achieve success, embracing diversity and committed to transformation. We do this through living our values of having the courage to be bold, care, collaboration and an intolerance for mediocrity. We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth.
Division
One of the largest businesses within the Sanlam Group, Sanlam Corporate (SC) specialises in the provision of risk, investment and administration services to institutions and retirement funds. Focused on meeting the unique needs of its diverse clients, SC assists companies in creating and delivering customised employee benefits solutions, including the collection of premiums and communication to fund members.
Key Responsibilities
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Our commitment to transformation
Our vision is to be the preferred partner to Corporate and Public Sector by providing an awesome client experience and comprehensive solutions that enable the financial resilience and prosperity of those entities and their employees. We tap into over 100 years of expertise to provide cost-effective Employee Benefits and Healthcare Solutions that enable financial confidence for our members. We enable our clients to make better retirement and risk decisions today through determined and passionate thought leadership and best-in-class people, innovative products and proven processes all designed to help people live a better life tomorrow.
We believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives every individual the opportunity to achieve success, embracing diversity and committed to transformation. We do this through living our values of having the courage to be bold, care, collaboration and an intolerance for mediocrity. We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth.
Division
One of the largest businesses within the Sanlam Group, Sanlam Corporate (SC) specialises in the provision of risk, investment and administration services to institutions and retirement funds. Focused on meeting the unique needs of its diverse clients, SC assists companies in creating and delivering customised employee benefits solutions, including the collection of premiums and communication to fund members.
Key Responsibilities
- Will be responsible for accurate triangles, bank and general ledger reconciliations within service level agreement.
- Peer review of triangles, bank and general ledger reconciliations.
- Compilation of unit reconciliations and bank declarations.
- Updating of monthly reserve account schedules and posting of journals.
- Drawing up of electronic transfers to pay expenses.
- Capturing of bank account information on the bank saldo file.
- Posting of bank statement transactions on to the accounting system (after bank reports extracted by Treasury).
- Submitting of daily reconciliations completed.
- Updating of month end file.
- PAYE completion and saving om EMP 201 on e-filing.
- Prepare Trustee reporting.
- Assist with resolving audit queries.
- Prepare year end audit files.
- General administration - filing and opening of new files.
- Diploma or Financial degree with Accounting.
- At least 1-year relevant reconciliation experience.
- Experience in dealing with audits will be advantageous.
- Employee Benefits experience will be advantageous.
- Knowledge of the legislation applicable to retirement fund industry will be advantageous.
- Solid understanding of debits, credits and journal entries.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook etc).
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Good problem solving and time management skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Strong attention to detail and proactive attitude.
- Must be able to work under pressure (individually and as part of a team).
- Ability to collaborate and pull information together.
- Results driven.
- Cultivates Innovation by creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful.
- Client Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
- Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Resilience - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Our commitment to transformation
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