Junior Commercial Accountant - Fruit Industry - Bellville

RESPONSIBILITY: Exports

1. Review weekly invoices and costing of previous week;
2. Process account sales and costs on Palbroker (freight, transport, storage, inspections, landside;
3. Review ROE and communicate to commercial;
4. Compile list of Age Receivables – communicate via email to clients and Commercial team;
5. Clearing and allocation of funds;
6. Compile list of grower payouts weekly;
7. Update ROE for the week for invoicing, costing and Grower Payout;
8. Communicate with Commercial team to sign off grower payouts and account sales;
9. Update and compile weekly Currency Cashflow;
10. Process Payments of Forex;
11. Prepare and communicate forex transactions;
12. Prepare and update Balance sheet control accounts on Xero;
13. Ensure all transactions, both supplier and customer pull through on Power BI app;
14. Issue of custom / commercial invoices to freight forwarders.

Operations – Assist ad hoc;

Commercial – Ad hoc reporting and pull data;

Director – Ad hoc reporting and pull data

RESPONSIBILITY: Month-End

• Ensure the company is compliant (Both Namibia and South Africa) with all local requirements such as: SARB approval
• Review Exports and integration between Palbroker, Xero and Power BI;
• Prepare, process and communicate all Export data as required.

Bcom Management Accounting;

CIMA will be advantageous.

• Fully bilingual (English and Afrikaans);
• Good inter-personal skills with a proven ability to build relationships and manage a team;
• Strong administrative and time management skills;
• Ability to take inititiative;
• Good computer skills (MS Office, Office 365 Outlook, Excel and Xero, Power BI, SQL);
• Ability to solve problems;
• Ability to multitask;
• Strong analytical ability & attention to detail;
• Pro-activ & energetic;
• Teamplayer;
• Disciplined & Focus;
• Ability to work under pressure within time constraints.

• Understand export industry and the importance of information for all related parties;
• Previous experience (Minimum 5 years) in the fruit industry (Commodity knowledge), farming culture, operations and how the process flow works from farm to staging or export facilities;
• Accounting experience; specifically cashflow, cost management, exchange rate;
• Logistical system experience, specifically optimalization of system to fit business needs;
• Accounting system knowledge, the integration of systems and running parallel systems;
• Basic data system knowledge (Microsoft BI, SQL, Excel);