Accounts Clerk Senior
- Function
- Finance/Administration
- Facility
- Life Eugene Marais Hospital
- Position
- Accounts Clerk Senior
- Introduction
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A vacancy exists for an Accounts Clerk Senior, based at Life Eugene Marais Hospital, reporting to Finance and Administration Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for capturing of data and financial information and performing specific general ledger recons to specific areas of the financial processes in the financial accounting of the Life Eugene Marais Hospital, Life Eugene Marais Rehab, Life Eugene Marais Oncology and Life Pretoria North Day Clinic.
- Critical Outputs
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- Preparing and capturing of requisitions, payments, and orders on SAP.
- Facilitate the procurement cycle including submission of invoices for payment.
- Managing allocated creditors. Reconciling, processing, and liaising with creditors and hospital staff daily regarding queries on creditors.
- Coding and allocation of payments and receipts in the cashbook.
- Assisting the Finance and Administration Manager with ad-hoc tasks including reviews of monthly results.
- Clearing of bank and creditor reconciling items.
- Resolving creditors and debtors account queries.
- Managing, following up and resolving of all doctor’s rental invoicing and relevant monthly statements.
- Maintaining a filing system for creditors.
- Updating and management of the contracts register.
- Assisting in reviewing and establishing adequate internal controls within the finance department.
- Reviewing and maintaining fixed assets and inventory records.
- Preparing accurate and complete accruals at month end.
- Assist the Finance and Administration Manager with month end and capital expenditure reporting.
- General Admin duties, e.g., filing, taking of minutes etc.
- Liaising with the national credit control department regarding daily banking and bank transfer payments.
- Management of petty cash.
- Constantly striving to improve working methods to improve standardization and efficiencies.
- Maintaining a detailed asset register for the facility.
- Requirements
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- Grade 12 National Senior Certificate
- Diploma in accounting, bookkeeping or equivalent.
- Additional tertiary qualification in finance will be an added advantage
- At least two (2) years’ relevant experience and technical skills to meet the critical outputs.
- SAP knowledge is essential.
- Computer literacy and proficiency in Microsoft Office (excel, word) is essential.
- The candidate must be able to work independently, manage time effectively and be a team player, energetic, quality focused and flexible.
- Ability to work under pressure in a challenging environment.
- Financial process understanding up to trial balance and ability to perform balance sheet reconciliations.
- Attention to detail regarding recons and understanding of the private health care industry
- Competencies
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- Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
- Attention to detail
- Resilience
- Engaging diversity
- Professional and technical proficiency
- Excellence orientation
- Building relationships
- Customer responsiveness
- Organizational awareness
- Action orientation
- Ethical behavior
- Careers.Emh@lifehealthcare.co.za
- Closing date
- Thursday, March 20, 2025
Internal applicants - Before making an application, you are requested to discuss your application with your line manager. External candidates will also be considered.
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Life Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applicants who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date of this advert, should consider their application as unsuccessful.