Finance Administrator

Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Finance Administrator [Maternity Cover] to join our Finance Team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative and hard-working people with integrity to join us.  We offer a market-related Total Remuneration Package, which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and promise that you won’t be bored if you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

The position reports to the Accounts Receivable Manager

Your responsibilities will include:

• Processing customer invoices and credit notes daily

• Uploading customer payments via Internal systems daily

• Creating and managing the accuracy of customer accounts via Internal systems

• Management of customer accounts and relationships for timeous collection of Accounts Receivable balances

• Assisting with inter-company and inter-department queries and processing inter-company recharges for vouchers.

• Reconciliations: reconciling Accounts receivable Aging on a regular basis to ensure accuracy and money received is accurately allocated to the accounts receivable ledger.

• Reconciling voucher creation and invoicing at month end.

• May be required to perform additional ad hoc duties, as required within the department

• Investigate customer queries and addressing customer concerns in a timely manner.

Attributes required:

• High level of accuracy and attention to detail

• Strong customer focus

• Excellent organizational and time – management skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to handle queries professionally

• Problem Solving skills

Qualifications and Experience:

• At least 2-3 years’ experience in Finance administration role.

• Experience with financial software such as SAGE evolution an advantage

• Computer proficiency pertaining to MS Office is a prerequisite, strong excel skills

• Relevant Accounting Degree/Diploma

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.

• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve

• We are short on ego and high on output

• We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all

• We love what we do and what we are creating

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is respectful but forthright

• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute

• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions

• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours

• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience

• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster

• is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;

• is curious and challenge the status quo

• is innovative and enjoys iteration

• is collaborative

• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com

• thinks like an owner of the business

• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING

If you meet the above criteria and are an Extraordinary Mind , come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.