Telesure Careers Vacancy Application

Telesure Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd (TIH), is the holding company of some of
South Africa’s leading financial long and short term insurance providers. Our
portfolio includes South Africa’s most loved and recognisable brands such as 1st
for Women, Auto & General, Budget, Dialdirect, Virseker and 1Life. Employee
Benefits Administration via our Hippo Advisory Services, which includes health
insurance, provident fund and group life administration. Hippo is South Africa’s
first comparison website and compares insurance, other personal finance
products, travel, health, money, travel, cars from a range of South African
brands. We’re pioneers with a hunger for the best, bringing customer-focused
innovation and service excellence to the financial services industry. We’re an
undivided team of diverse thinkers and doers who believe in leading through
technology and pushing beyond limits.

Telesure Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd (TIH), is the holding company of some of
South Africa’s leading financial long and short term insurance providers. Our
portfolio includes South Africa’s most loved and recognisable brands such as 1st
for Women, Auto & General, Budget, Dialdirect, Virseker and 1Life. Employee
Benefits Administration via our Hippo Advisory Services, which includes health
insurance, provident fund and group life administration. Hippo is South Africa’s
first comparison website and compares insurance, other personal finance
products, travel, health, money, travel, cars from a range of South African
brands. We’re pioneers with a hunger for the best, bringing customer-focused
innovation and service excellence to the financial services industry. We’re an
undivided team of diverse thinkers and doers who believe in leading through
technology and pushing beyond limits.

Financial Accounting skills
Check all allocations of bank transactions before submitting for payments.
Processing Recoveries and Salvages banks accounts.
Perform banks’ weekly and monthly reconciliations to bank statements for all the
Group companies.
Ensure that no payments are processed to any GL Account but that they are
allocated to already processed supplier invoices.
Ensure that the foreign supplier is created and the invoice to be paid is
processed on the system.
Process FOREX invoices, FOREX rate (only SARB is to be used).
Calculate the foreign exchange gain or loss and assign the recording of this
variance on the system.
Inspect Intercompany Customer Aging and follow up on any long outstanding
Customer Aging balances.
Ensure allocation of debtors’ receipts are correct according to the debtor’s
remittance

Financial Management & Control
Accurately process all supplier invoices.
Check GL Allocations of each supplier invoice before submitting it for posting.
Agree all processed payments documentation and related invoices against
records on the accounting system.
Keep and maintain a log of common errors identified during batch checking and
the proposed corrections.
Ensure that all expected suppliers invoice not received are accounted for by
means of accounting provisions.
Manage and resolve all AP related issues.
Accurately recording invoices to ensure completeness of expenses and liabilities
on a daily basis
Obtain creditors statements on a weekly/monthly basis in order to reconcile and
pay vendors according to agreed terms and conditions.

Operational Compliance
Follow a range of mandatory procedures to ensure that work is carried out to the
required quality standards and/or to ensure adherence to external regulatory
codes and internal codes of conduct.
Redirect to accountants any expense reallocation queries relating to prior
periods and ensure the current period’s costs are effected by the Ops Team.
Administration
Monitor their email box and attend timeously all supplier invoices for processing.
Coordinate the document flow for opening of new and/or amendment of existing
supplier master file.
Keep a record of supplier master file amendment requests and save relevant
documentation.

Maintain the supplier master file:
Periodic request to update of supplier VAT, Bank and Registration numbers.
Keep a log of customer master file amendment requests.
Ensuring successful payment and timeous submission of remittance advice’s in
order to reduce unnecessary queries from business and vendors
Manage and resolve all AR related issues

Data Collection & Analysis
Extract relevant data from information provided by others, and input it into
spreadsheets or standard formats.
Customer Management
Dealing with both internal and external queries about payments.
Dealing with queries from internal and external customers relating to creditors
Account Management
Communicate and follow-up with Accountants regarding the opening of new
customers.
Data Management
Use data management systems to access specific information as and when
required.
Document Preparation
Prepare routine letters, memoranda, reports and similar documents following
detailed instruction. This is likely to involve using the full range of functions
within standard office software.
Document Management
Create, organize and maintain files containing the correspondence and records
of a senior colleague.

General Education
Matric/Grade12/SAQA/ Accredited (Essential); Diploma in Accounting or
Financial Management (Advantageous)
1-2 years experience in a financial operations function (Essential)

SAQA Accredited Equivalent – It is the onus of the applicant to provide TIH and
its subsidiaries with certified evidence that their qualification(s) meet the
equivalent NQF level required for this role at time of application. As a registered
Financial Service Provider, we are mandated to ensure that all our