Cashbook Clerk

• Maintain and update all cashbooks daily.
• Ensure payments are posted to the correct general ledger accounts.
• Accurately and promptly verify, process, and capture transactions on Sage.
• Record transactions with correct amounts, periods, classifications, allocations, and validity.
• Prepare a list of unclaimed deposits and process clearing journals.
• Inform relevant staff promptly about batch duplications, returned cheques, and reversals.
• Import and download statements and reconcile receipts against batches daily.
• Investigate, follow up, and clear receipt and payment transactions.
• Perform monthly period-end procedures.
• Complete daily bank reconciliations and month-end reconciliations with Sage ledger.
• Manage queries and follow up with the bank on uncleared debits, credits, and bank charges.
• Liaise with regional advertising, subscriptions, or SSC to identify and allocate unclaimed deposits from bank statements.
• Prepare journals for authorisation and capture them once authorised.
• Verify and analyse bank charges and compare rates to contracts.
• Assist with data capture for cashbooks and journals during backlogs.
• Identify and resolve intercompany queries.
• Ensure records and bank statements are available for annual auditor inspections.
• Prepare monthly reconciliation of bank balances, comparing bank statements to cashbook balances.
• Support the SSC FM with administrative duties related to year-end activities.

• Matric qualification.
• Proficiency in computer literacy.
• Two to three years of experience in a relevant field.

• Creative problem-solving abilities.
• Self-starter who shows initiative and works independently.
• Highly motivated and driven to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Flexibility to work long, irregular hours, including night shifts, weekends, and public holidays.
• Willingness to travel long distances within the province and country.
• Ability to work effectively under constant deadline pressure.