Job Description
- Alert Engine Parts is searching for an experienced Debtors Clerk to join the branch in Johannesburg.
- The purpose of this position is to confidently liaise and resolve problems with customers and other employees who can assist in settling issues on debtors’ accounts.
- The successful candidate should be a self-starter and motivator with the ability to function in and to positively contribute to the overall performance of the branch.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintaining of debtors’ accounts to ensure that they are timeously and accurately updated
- Monitoring of movements in accounts and the investigation of all unusual items
- Reconciliation of Alert statements and debtor payments
- Accurately calculating settlement discount where applicable
- Matching payments correctly to Debtor’s account
- The raising and capturing of adjusting journals in debtor’s accounts
- Daily liaison with customers regarding outstanding payments or queries
- Timeous completing of Debtor Input Sheet and other documents needed for daily DSS
- Do timeous follow ups on all queries regarding debtors’ accounts.
Requirements
- Grade 12 with preferably bookkeeping, business economics & mathematics
- Experience in handling Debtors’ Accounts- Essential
- Relevant bookkeeping experience in a company
- The ability to investigate problems and discrepancies, to identify the problem areas and to then solve the problems without delay
- A solid grasp of the basic accounting principle of double entry-Essential
- Comfortable with computerised ledgers
- A solid working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word
- Ability to liaise with customers, other employees and head office
- Organised and disciplined approach to daily accounting tasks and administration
- A high level of competency in the standard of work
- Work well under pressure
- Ability to work with different personality types as well as the self-confidence to enforce, when necessary, adherence to company procedures and accounting standards
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Making detailed notes when following up regarding e.g. outstanding payments, late payers, etc
- The ability to investigate problems and discrepancies, to identify the problem areas and to then solve the problems without delay
- A high level of competency in the standard of work
- A solid grasp of the basic accounting principle of double entry
- Ability to structure and pass adjusting journal entries
- Comfortable with computerised ledgers
- A solid working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word-Essential
- Ability to structure and pass adjusting journal entries