Finance Assistant – BancABC Zimbabwe 188 views

To process all invoices received for payments and undertake the payments of all creditors in an accurate, efficient, and timely manner. Also, to provide accounting support and assist in preparing and submitting internal reports to management for decision making

Duties And Responsibilities

Finance Assistant: Reconciliations
• Prepare key balance sheet account reconciliations and analyses and ensure reconciling items are cleared timeously
• Ensure that all transactions were accurately recorded at appropriate amounts.
• Check that all assets, liabilities and net asset balances that should have been recorded were correctly recorded on the Statement of

Financial Position.
• Prepare reconciliations for all suspense and clearing accounts on a daily and weekly basis and ensuring that reconciling items are cleared in a timely manner
• Ensure there is sufficient documentation to support each balance on the Trial Balance
• Maintain appropriate files, reports, documentation and data.

Finance Assistant: Payments
• Processing payments on daily basis
• Checking accuracy of invoices i.e., amount, authorisation, and narration
• Ensuring that all payments have sufficient and properly completed documentation before processing for payments
• Paying foreign creditors ensuring they all have valid contracts and relevant taxes are withheld
• Processing expense reports, cash advances and petty cash accurately and timely
• Preparing payments schedules and expense analyses
• Obtain ZIMRA tax clearance certificates for all suppliers/ service providers
• Compiling journal uploads and dispatch correction journals to other departments for capturing
• Capturing data relating to Accounts payables and Accounts

Receivables into FlexCube and Fusion
• Developing and maintain Excel spreadsheets to support Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables reconciliations

Qualifications And Experience

• Accounting / Finance degree from an accredited University
• At least 1-year relevant work experience in financial and clerical services and must have exposure to banking financial systems.

Skills and Competencies:
• Positive attitude.
• Attention to detail.
• Risk awareness.
• Task oriented
• Efficient time management.
• Ambitious and energetic, able to get things done.
• Confident and resilient.
• Excellent communicator.
• Initiative.
• Maturity and credibility

Job Related Knowledge
• Financial accounting skills, knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards and experience in preparing financial statements and implementation of accounts.
• Knowledge of internal controls
• Computer literacy in spreadsheets, accounting
packages and implementation of finance packages
• Computer literacy, especially Microsoft Office packages.