Creditors Administrator

Job Title                     : Creditors Administrator

Peromnes Grade       : P10 (588 488.61 Per Annum)

Location                     : Pretoria (Head Office)

Reporting Line           : Manager: Finance 

Overall Job Purpose      : The role is responsible for ensuring effective and efficient financial administration support for order generation, invoice matching and processing.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage creditors’ cycle i.e. from order generation to invoice matching, reconciliation, and payment.
• Maintain the creditors’ ledger.
• Reconcile Creditors’ Ledger to creditors’ General Ledger control account.
• Ensure accurate, timely and correct recording of expenditure.
• Check and authorize credit and debit memos as well as returns.
• Check creditors’ reconciliation for authorisation of payments.
• Adhere to creditors’ payment terms to avoid penalties and interest.
• Prepare month-end and year-end creditors’ provision lists.
• Liaison with internal and external customers.
• Perform ad hoc functions as delegated.

Reporting

• Ensure accurate, relevant, reliable and timeous provision of financial information to internal decision-making for reporting purposes.

Financial policies and procedures

• Ensure compliance with CGS financial policies and procedures, PFMA, Treasury regulations, GAAP, IFRS.

KEY PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Ability to excersise discretion in dealing with cofidential or sensitive matters
• Confident and able to work on own initiative and with limited supervision
• Strong organizational and planning skills with ability to prioritise
• Team player and self-motivated.
• Organized and deadline driven.
• High acumen for figures.
• Honest and faithful.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Matric (Grade 12) and;
• Three (3) year National Diploma (NQF Level 6) with accounting as a major or equivalent.

KnoWledge and Experience

• 5 years’ experience in finance environment.
• Proficient with AccPac or equivalent financial system.
• Financial administrative skills.
• Understanding of PFMA and Treasury regulations.

The Council for Geoscience is committed to Employment Equity and diversity. In accordance with the Employment Equity prescripts, preference will be given but not limited to candidates from under-represented designated groups. Females and people from previously disadvantaged groups and sectors are encouraged to apply.

Correspondence will be limited to shortlisted candidates only. If you have not been contacted within eight (8) weeks after the closing date of this advertisement, please consider your application unsuccessful.

All appointments are subject to positive vetting results.

The processing of your personal information by the Council for Geoscience will be done in accordance with the POPI Act 4 of 2013.

For enquiries, please contact us at recruitment@geoscience.org.za. Please note: Applications submitted to this email address and CGS social media platforms will not be considered.

Closing Date: 06 May 2025