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About the Role

Our client in the FMCG industry looking for a skilled Accounts Receivable Accountant to join their finance team. The ideal candidate will have strong SAP knowledge, excellent attention to detail, and proven experience managing customer accounts and collections.

Key Responsibilities

• Open and maintain customer accounts.
• Monitor credit limits and insurance cover.
• Prepare and distribute monthly customer statements.
• Review ageing reports and follow up on overdue accounts.
• Accurately allocate payments and claims.
• Manage customer claims through the E-Claims portal.
• Support collections for export orders.
• Recognise sales and generate reports in SAP.
• Assist with month-end close and reporting.
• Maintain up-to-date trading terms and discounts in SAP.
• Provide ad hoc support to the finance team when required.

Requirements

• 3+ years' experience in accounts receivable, debtors, or credit control.
• Strong SAP experience (essential).
• Solid Excel skills (essential).
• Finance or Accounting qualification preferred.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.

SALARY IS MARKET RELATED AND COMMENSURATE BASED ON EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Job Type: Permanent

Pay: R30 000,00 - R40 000,00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Rivonia, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• What is your current monthly CTC?
• What is your notice period/availability?

Experience:

• accounts receivable, credit control, or debtors' management: 3 years (Required)
• SAP: 3 years (Required)
• Advanced MS Excel: 3 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• BCom/Finance degree or equivalent (Required)

Work Location: In person

Listing reference: woolw_

Listing status: Online

Apply by: 5 September 2025

Position summary

Industry: Auditing/Accounting

Job category: Financial Accounting

Location: Cape Town

Contract: Fixed Term Contract

Remuneration: Market-related

EE position: No

Introduction

To provide the business with accurate recording, processing, monitoring, and reporting of all Now Now, W-Café, Uber Eats, and Mr D customer accounts. To monitor current procedures and the full reporting relating to these customers.

Job description

• Understand the accounting process of the accounts receivables transactions into the customer subledger accounts.
• To reconcile the Now Now, W-Café, Mr D and Uber Eats customers transactions to the payments received.
• Preparation of monthly reconciliations.
• Recover debt from these customers within the agreed payment terms.
• Identify unprocessed customer payments and timeously apply cash accurately to the customer accounts.
• Identify and resolve payment queries timeously.
• Ensure that all sales invoices are raised to the customer account weekly, based on the amounts extracted from the customer's portal.
• Ensure that the accounts receivable customer and accounts payable supplier accounts net off to zero by processing weekly CADS.
• Reconciliation of POS sales to aggregator sales monthly.
• Ensure all customer monthly processing has been completed and payments allocated before weekly and monthly accounts receivable close.
• Review all manual billing instructions for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure the timeous escalation of queries or system failures with the relevant business unit stakeholders.
• Ad hoc Reporting as requested by management.
• Monitor current systems and controls related to accounts receivable to ensure compliance with procedures.
• Establish SLA with key stakeholders / customers.
• Prepare monthly operational reports.

Minimum requirements

Technical skills :

• Relevant Financial qualification – B Comm or equivalent.
• Relevant Financial qualification environment.
• Sound understanding of IFRS, accounting processes and internal controls.
• Deadline driven.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strategic and proactive approach to problem solving.
• Proven competence in Excel and Oracle financial systems.

Behavioural skills :

• Personal Effectiveness
• Team leadership
• Passion for the brand and customer
• Connecting people
• Delivering high performance
• Having an accounting mind-set
• Making insightful business decisions
• Driving quality
• Planning and organizing

Introduction:

• To provide the business with accurate recording, processing, monitoring, and reporting of certain customer accounts. To monitor current procedures and the full reporting relating to these customers.

Job description:

• Understand the accounting process of the accounts receivables transactions into the customer subledger accounts.
• To reconcile customers transactions to the payments received.
• Preparation of monthly reconciliations.
• Recover debt from these customers within the agreed payment terms.
• Identify unprocessed customer payments and timeously apply cash accurately to the customer accounts.
• Identify and resolve payment queries timeously.
• Ensure that all sales invoices are raised to the customer account weekly, based on the amounts extracted from the customer’s portal.
• Ensure that the accounts receivable customer and accounts payable supplier accounts net off to zero by processing weekly CADS.
• Reconciliation of POS sales to aggregator sales monthly.
• Ensure all customer monthly processing has been completed and payments allocated before weekly and monthly accounts receivable close.
• Review all manual billing instructions for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure the timeous escalation of queries or system failures with the relevant business unit stakeholders.
• Ad hoc Reporting as requested by management.
• Monitor current systems and controls related to accounts receivable to ensure compliance with procedures.
• Establish SLA with key stakeholders / customers.
• Prepare monthly operational reports.

Minimum requirements

Technical skills:

• Relevant Financial qualification – B Comm or equivalent.
• Relevant Financial qualification environment.
• Sound understanding of IFRS, accounting processes and internal controls.
• Deadline driven.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strategic and proactive approach to problem solving.
• Proven competence in Excel and Oracle financial systems.

Behavioural skills:

• Personal Effectiveness
• Team leadership
• Passion for the brand and customer
• Connecting people
• Delivering high performance
• Having an accounting mind-set
• Making insightful business decisions
• Driving quality
• Planning and organizing

Kindly regard your application as unsuccessful if you have not heard from the agency within 2 weeks.

• Responsible for the accurate and timeous reconciliation of both debtors and creditors
• Ensure that creditors are reconciled and paid within term
• Ensure that debtors are carefully managed, deposits collected and all reconciliations performed timeously and accurately

• 3+ years of experience in a related role
• SYSPRO 8 experience would be highly advantageous

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks, we regret you have been unsuccessful.

Accounts Receivable and Cash Book Accountant (EE)

Reference

Sector Automotive / Manufacturing

Location Gqeberha

Job Type full_time

Experience 5 to 7 years

Qualifications No education

Package Negotiable

Description

Our Client in the Automotive Component Manufacturing Industry is seeking to employ an Accounts Receivable and Cash Book Accountant to their team based in Port Elizabeth.

Requirements:

• Tertiary qualification in the field of Finance (ND or BTech).
• At least 5 years working in a financial background.
• Practical ERP knowledge and experience.
• At least three years or more in a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge in Government Incentive Scheme (APDP or AIS) will be advantageous.
• Computer literacy (Excel skills essential).
• Good decision-making and organisational skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Impeccable disciplinary and attendance records.
• Great people skills.
• Willingness to learn.
• Required to work overtime as and when required.

Responsibilities, but not limited to:

Debtors

• Maintenance of debtors database and debtors age analysis.
• Check delivery notes for accurate price and quantities.
• Raise debtors’ invoices and credit notes on the system.
• Print and send statements to customers.
• Ensure selling prices are accurate on the system.
• Prepare pricing reconciliations for quarterly changes.
• Receipt customer payments on the system and reconcile and apply receipts to the respective invoices.
• Manage customer-related queries.
• Liaise with the Logistics Department to ensure accurate sales quantities match delivery notes.
• Prepare debtor-related balance sheet reconciliations.

Treasury

• Daily cash flow reporting and forecasting.
• Posting of cash book transactions into the general ledger.
• Prepare VAT balance sheet reconciliations and ensure timely payments.
• Prepare bank-related balance sheet reconciliations.

General Ledger Administration

• Responsible for the month-end close procedures.
• Daily posting of subledger entries.

Listing reference: woolw_

Listing status: Online

Apply by: 5 September 2025

Location: Cape Town

Contract: Fixed Term Contract

Remuneration: Market-related

EE position: No

To provide the business with accurate recording, processing, monitoring, and reporting of all Now Now, W-Café, Uber Eats, and Mr D customer accounts. To monitor current procedures and the full reporting relating to these customers.

· Understand the accounting process of the accounts receivables transactions into the customer subledger accounts.

· To reconcile the Now Now, W-Café, Mr D and Uber Eats customers transactions to the payments received.

· Preparation of monthly reconciliations.

· Recover debt from these customers within the agreed payment terms.

· Identify unprocessed customer payments and timeously apply cash accurately to the customer accounts.

· Identify and resolve payment queries timeously.

· Ensure that all sales invoices are raised to the customer account weekly, based on the amounts extracted from the customer’s portal.

· Ensure that the accounts receivable customer and accounts payable supplier accounts net off to zero by processing weekly CADS.

· Reconciliation of POS sales to aggregator sales monthly.

· Ensure all customer monthly processing has been completed and payments allocated before weekly and monthly accounts receivable close.

· Review all manual billing instructions for completeness and accuracy.

· Ensure the timeous escalation of queries or system failures with the relevant business unit stakeholders.

· Ad hoc Reporting as requested by management.

· Monitor current systems and controls related to accounts receivable to ensure compliance with procedures.

· Establish SLA with key stakeholders / customers.

· Prepare monthly operational reports.

Technical skills :

• Relevant Financial qualification – B Comm or equivalent.
• Sound understanding of IFRS, accounting processes and internal controls.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strategic and proactive approach to problem solving.
• Proven competence in Excel and Oracle financial systems.

The AR Team Lead is responsible for leading the accounts-receivable function to secure cash, reduce credit risk and optimise working capital. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines credit management, collections, reconciliations and process ownership for the AR ledger and customer onboarding in NetSuite. The AR Team Lead will coach and manage the AR team, drive performance against KPIs and work closely with Sales, Legal and Treasury to protect revenue and reduce days outstanding.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the AR team; allocate work, set targets and conduct performance reviews.

• Own daily cash application, posting of receipts and clearing of customer accounts; ensure accuracy and timely processing in the ERP.

• Drive collections activities against the age analysis to reduce overdue balances while managing commercial relationships and not impeding sales.

• Manage credit risk: review credit applications, recommend credit limits, monitor exposures and initiate escalations (legal / CGIC) where required.

• Oversee customer onboarding checks and documentation in line with Rubicon requirements, POPIA and NCA/CPA compliance.

• Perform and own monthly reconciliations, ensure resolution of customer queries and present reconciled position to Finance on month-end.

• Produce timely and accurate AR reporting (cash receipts, ageing, DSO, disputed items) and provide commentary to Head of Finance.

• Liaise closely with Sales, Collections, Legal and Treasury on disputes, refunds, retention of title, payment plans and escalations.

• Maintain and improve AR processes and controls; lead NetSuite AR configuration/use improvements and automation where appropriate.

• Support month-end and year-end close activities and external audit requests related to AR.

KPIs / success measures

• Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and reduction trend.

• % of overdue debt collected within target periods.

• Accuracy of postings (reconciliations with zero or minimal reconciling items).

• Time to resolve customer queries / disputes.

• Timeliness of month-end AR reporting and audit readiness.

• Team performance and adherence to SLAs.

Experience, skills & qualifications

• Minimum 7 years' relevant AR / credit control experience, including at least 2 years in a supervisory or team-lead role.

• Strong knowledge of credit management, collections techniques and relevant legislation (NCA, CPA, POPIA).

• Proven experience with an ERP system (NetSuite experience highly preferred) and strong Excel skills.

• Relevant tertiary qualification (BCom Accounting / Finance or equivalent). Credit management or accounting certification advantageous.

• Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills; strong commercial acumen.

• High attention to detail, organisational skills, and ability to work to deadlines.

Reporting lines & relationships

• Reports to: Head of Finance / Finance Manager (or Head of AR).

• Direct reports: AR administrators / controllers (size to be agreed).

• Key relationships: Sales, Legal, Treasury, Procurement, Customer Service, External Auditors, CGIC.

Authority

• Day-to-day operational authority for AR activities and collections strategy.

• Authority to recommend credit limits and escalations; payment terms changes subject to delegated approval. Exact delegated financial limits to be confirmed by the Group Finance Manager.