Accountant

We are seeking a detail-oriented Financial Accounting Associate to support corporate finance and Life reinsurance accounting. The role captures approved transactions, maintains records and evidence, performs defined system processing and schedules, supports controlled regulatory and reporting uploads, and follows up routine queries. Work is performed within agreed procedures and clearly defined responsibilities, with appropriate review. The role reports to the Finance Manager and supports both the Financial Accountant and Technical Accountant in their respective areas, while maintaining clear scope, accountability and review boundaries. The successful candidate will be responsible for: Capturing approved supplier and claim invoices and processing approved deposits, payments, bank entries, petty cash and foreign-currency entries Clearing paid invoices, handling routine creditor queries and monitoring the SA Finance inbox Supporting month-end processes through routine processing, system checks and assigned schedules Supporting approved IFRS 17-related processing and system updates within defined procedures Supporting routine Life reinsurance processing and related client accounting activities Supporting regulatory and management reporting processes, including preparation, upload and report distribution Collating statutory reporting and B-BBEE information for business units Collating audit evidence, supporting audit requests and process descriptions, preparing assigned Annual Financial Statement schedules and maintaining complete electronic and physical records Supporting new system testing and implementation activities when required Maintaining checklists, resolving routine differences, identifying recurring issues and escalating exceptions promptly Ad hoc requests as required