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Listing live now. Role: Accounts Payable Clerk. Location: Calvinia, Northern Cape. The team is hiring and seeks a candidate who can step in and deliver from week one.
What This Role Involves
An experienced Accounts Payable Clerk is needed to support operations in Calvinia. The role forms part of how the business keeps its finance jobs portfolio strong in Northern Cape.
Day-to-day, the role balances focused delivery with the kind of collaboration that keeps things moving. The successful candidate is trusted to make sensible decisions inside the agreed scope, with line-management support whenever a sounding board is useful.
Internal documentation, process notes and shared playbooks make it easier for the Accounts Payable Clerk to step into the finance jobs workflow quickly. Institutional knowledge is well-organised, so people are not reinventing the wheel from one week to the next.
Where You’ll Work
The environment is structured and deadline-driven, with peaks around month-end, year-end and audit cycles. The wider team is collaborative, but focused work is the norm.
Health, safety and well-being are taken seriously. Current policies and procedures are maintained, and the Calvinia site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.
Notably, the working environment is set up to give the team the focus needed for deeper work, while keeping collaboration and quick problem-solving close at hand.
A Typical Day
Most days begin by working through your inbox, prioritising urgent supplier or audit queries before settling into the books. You move between reconciliations, journal entries and review meetings, breaking out spreadsheets when something doesn’t tie up. Mid-morning calls with operations or sales help you understand the numbers behind the numbers, and the afternoon is usually given to deeper work: management reports, tax submissions or supporting a junior with a tricky reconciliation. By the time you log off, you have nudged the business closer to a clean month-end.
In addition, the Calvinia office buzzes through peak hours and settles into focused, productive lulls in between, giving you time to plan and reset before the next stretch of work.
No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Calvinia.
Your Future Here
This role can grow with you. Strong performers in the finance jobs team in Calvinia have moved into senior, supervisory and specialist positions, and that journey is supported through coaching, training and exposure to bigger projects.
Training is a mix of formal courses, structured on-the-job learning and exposure to broader projects, all geared at building practical skills.
On top of that, internal mobility is encouraged. People who start in Calvinia have moved into roles in other branches, specialist functions and project teams across Northern Cape.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Maintain accurate general ledger entries and trial balance integrity
- Liaise with external auditors, banks and regulatory bodies
- Implement and monitor internal controls to mitigate financial risk
- Assist with VAT, PAYE and provisional tax submissions to SARS
- Monitor debtors’ age analysis and follow up on overdue accounts
- Reconcile bank accounts, supplier statements and intercompany loans
- Assist with budget preparation and quarterly re-forecasting cycles
What You’ll Need
- Understanding of internal controls and segregation of duties
- Awareness of B-BBEE financial reporting requirements
- Good written and verbal communication with non-finance stakeholders
- Ability to meet tight reporting deadlines under pressure
- B.Com or National Diploma in Accounting, Finance or related field
- Strong understanding of VAT, PAYE and SARS e-filing
Candidates who meet most of these criteria are welcome to be considered for the role.