Municipal Creditors Clerk (Ref: 23951)

About the position

Our client in the property development industry based in Pretoria East is seeking a municipal Creditors Clerk. This positions responsibilities will include reconcile municipal accounts, identify and solve problems on accounts physically go to municipality to sort out queries (a pool vehicle is available) prepare payments capturing information as well as traveling.

Requirements:

• 3 Years creditors' reconciliations experience.
• The ability to find and solve problems on creditors accounts.
• Strong computer literacy (MS Excel at least)
• Matric
• MDA (Advantageous)
• Possibility of traveling to Polokwane (sleep over 1 night), council work.
• Drivers licence preferred

Responsibilities:

• Reconcile municipal accounts.
• Identify and solve problems on accounts.
• Physically go to municipality to sort out queries (a pool vehicle is available).
• Prepare payments.
• Capture information on MDA system.
• Import and export information from 3 different systems (database, MDA and Excel)
• Sourcing of council accounts.
• Schedule and update monthly due dates for council accounts.
• Updating the daily schedule where the accounts are received.
• Follow up daily on accounts not received on due dates.
• Saving of council accounts on the server.
• Forwarding council accounts to clients.
• Obtain the history on all of the council accounts for new buildings as the need arise.
• Capturing of council accounts
• Capture all allocated accounts manually into the financial systems.
• All allocated accounts need to be captured within 24 hours after it has been sourced.
• Flagg accounts that first need to be audited before monthly approval.
• Conduct the Council account audit to determine accuracy of any credit / back charges.
• Follow up on all flagged accounts.
• Communicate all variances and changes that has an influence on the outcome of the job to applicable managers.
• Check that council is applying the correct tariff structure.
• Prepare payment requests timely to avoid late payments of council accounts.
• Council Meetings.
• Opening and closing of Council Accounts.
• Liaise with council to discuss any account disputes.
• Obtain annual tariff structures from different municipalities.
• Maintaining a schedule with all municipal queries and provide weekly progress report.

Desired Skills:

• Creditors
• MDA
• Reconciling
• payments