Accounts Assistant

Role
Overview

WOLO
Travel is looking for a reliable and detail-oriented Accounts Assistant to support the day-to-day transactional finance
function.

The
role focuses on accurate processing, reconciliations and finance
administration, helping ensure that supplier, customer and bank records remain
clean, current and ready for month-end reporting.

This
is an early-career accounting role suited to a university graduate who has
already gained practical finance experience, enjoys working with numbers and
wants to build broader accounting capability in a fast-moving business.

Key Responsibilities

Accounts
Payable & Receivable

• Capture supplier invoices and maintain
accurate supplier account records.

• Reconcile supplier statements and prepare
supporting information for payment runs.

• Allocate customer payments, assist with
customer account administration and follow up payment discrepancies.

• Escalate unresolved supplier or customer
issues to the Financial Accountant.

Bank
& Payment Reconciliations

• Perform bank, credit card and payment gateway
reconciliations.

• Match receipts and payments to the correct
transactions and accounts.

• Investigate straightforward differences and
keep unreconciled items to a minimum.

Travel
& Booking Finance

• Assist with matching customer payments,
supplier invoices and payments to travel bookings.

• Support reconciliation of deposits,
prepayments, refunds, cancellations and credits.

• Help identify discrepancies between booking
systems, accounting records and payment platforms.

Finance
Administration & Month-End Support

• Process employee expense claims and ensure
supporting documents and approvals are complete.

• Maintain organised electronic finance records
and follow up missing invoices, receipts or information.

• Prepare selected month-end schedules and
reconciliations for review by the Financial Accountant.

• Assist with audit, VAT, payroll and year-end
supporting documentation when required.

Systems
& Process Support

• Use Xero and other finance or operational
systems accurately and consistently.

• Follow agreed finance procedures and
controls.

• Raise recurring transactional issues or
process improvements with the Financial Accountant.

Requirements

Experience & Qualifications

• Completed university degree in Accounting,
Finance, Management Accounting or a related field.

• At least 1 year of full-time post-university
experience in an accounting or finance role.

• Practical exposure to accounts payable,
accounts receivable and reconciliations.

• Experience using accounting software such as
Xero, Sage or similar.

• Good Microsoft Excel skills.

• Exposure to month-end accounting is
advantageous.

• Studying towards CIMA, SAIPA, SAICA or
another recognised professional accounting qualification is advantageous.

• Experience in a high-volume transactional
business is advantageous.

Key Attributes

• Accurate and detail-oriented.

• Reliable, organised and comfortable with
recurring deadlines.

• Curious and willing to investigate
discrepancies.

• Confident with systems and willing to learn.

• Able to ask questions and escalate issues
appropriately.

• Proactive, trustworthy and solutions-focused.
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What Success Looks Like

Success
in this role would mean:

• Supplier invoices and customer payments are
processed accurately and promptly.

• Bank, card and supplier reconciliations
remain current.

• Supporting documents are complete and
organised.

• Transactional work is ready for month-end
without significant backlog.

• Finance queries and discrepancies are
followed up and escalated appropriately.

Benefits

& other information

- WOLO Travel offers a structured hybrid work from home, work from office environment
- Home base is in the Cape Town CBD and applicant must provide own transport
- Every employee receives a Guaranteed 10 WOLO Weekends (Long Weekends) a year
- WOLO Travel is a lifestyle brand with a commitment to "Working to live, not living to work!"