Junior Accountant

About the position

A leading international agricultural company requires the above to assist the Financial Manager with all financial accounting duties for the company within the finance department.
Minimum requirements for the role:

• A BCom Financial Accounting / Management Accounting or any related finance degree or diploma is preferred for the role.
• Previous experience having worked on Pastel Partner is preferred but not essential as training will be provided.
• Previous experience having worked in a financial accounting or related role is preferred.
• The company is also happy to look at a finance graduate with no work experience for this role.
• Must have good Excel skills.
• The successful candidate must have sound verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have the ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Must be highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple tasks and prioritize.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Creating purchase orders on Pastel to suppliers using quotations as well as allocating expenses to the correct Ledger accounts.
• Sending purchase orders to variance suppliers and capturing invoices against purchase orders on Pastel as well as reconciling monthly Creditors Age analysis.
• Assisting with monthly control of stock on hand and movements of stock.
• Sorting out variances and writing off of expired stock and capturing information in Excel to send reports off to different managers.
• Raising of monthly journals: Asset Depreciation as well as working with intercompany loans.
• Assisting in Year End Auditing including Year End Journals for submission to auditors for Financial Statements.

Salary package, including benefits, is highly negotiable depending on experience gained.

Desired Skills:

• Accounting
• Junior Accountant
• Accounting Graduate
• Stock Management