Job Description

Closing Date 2025/06/04
Reference Number SAA250519-1
Job Title Team Leader Accounting and Reconciliation Control
Division Finance
Business Unit N/A
Job Type Permanent
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Kempton Park
Job PurposeThe incumbent of this role is responsible for co-ordinating all Revenue Accounting accountancy functions against regular accountancy functions to account in general ledger and ensure that Revenue Accounting system and financial accounting system integrate correctly. The role will ensure APRA business rules are defined correctly, update flight range for codeshare partners, update new point of sales and define charts of accounts.The role will ensure that SAP GL accounts in Revenue Accounting are cleared and completely correct for month end close off. The incumbent of this role will be responsible for financial analysis, administration, budgeting, forecasting, controls, coordination planning, contracts and support management within the Revenue Accounting environment.As part of the Finance team the role will be required to provide finance, administration and support services to other Revenue Accounting departments, SAA business environment and overall SAA community on IT finance related services. This role further extends to the identification of efficient business processes and systems thus bringing new ways of working in an environment, cost compression, optimisation of processes and continuous improvement.
Principal Accountabilities

• Ensure seamless interfacing of APRA Sales, Usage, Inward, Outward, ADM and ACM GL files in SAP (Identifying and correcting different types of errors on the CSV files before interfacing to SAP)
• Clearing tasks in APRA that prevents the accounting of certain transactions due to missing ABR Rules, unbalanced transactions and missing book rate
• Update the charts of accounts in APRA (updating the general ledger descriptions)
• Create new and update existing ABR Rules in APRA
• Inform project management about new developments within the APRA system to enable them to update the Internal business processes
• Write operational policy documents to ensure enduser follows the correct procedures, assess the effectiveness of tools provided and test that results are accurate
• Prepare route revenue reports for the HOD and investigate discrepancies
• Forward Sales Accounts Fare/Taxes/Discount and commission - reconciliation/analysis
• Perform analysis on expiration data to ensure that all tickets which qualify for expiration have been expired
• Provide management with Air Traffic Liability (ATL) guarantee calculations for the banks
• Provide management with bank unflown ticket liability guarantee and exposure calculations
• Analyse, perform clearing and prepare general ledger reconciliations identify errors, deviations and report accordingly
• Release of SAA related YR fuel and ticket taxes in keeping with the unutilised ticket tax policy
• Managing IRs and WO raised with Amadeus as a result of issues in APRA
• Provide support to the team on reconciliation and clearing of all general ledger accounts associated to Revenue Accounting. Review journals prepared before posting in SAP FI. Support the team with all calculations and workings required for journal postings
• Issuing of ADMs and ACMs to travel agents for unauthorised credit card transactions
• Ensure SAP is aligned with all commission percentages to facilitate accurate posting of expenses
• Review and support the teams' investigating on bank chargebacks (fraudulent/service not rendered), UATP transactions, manual loading of direct sales tickets issued with a UATP card in ATCAN for outward billing
• Review expense authorisations for monthly ticket tax payments (WC/EV/ZA/UM taxes)

Qualifications & Experience

• Grade 12 (Matric) with accounting at NQF level 4
• A 3-year diploma in Accounting at NQF level 6 and/or 4 years experience in Revenue Accounting
• Proficient knowledge of Amadeus Passenger Revenue Accounting system (APRA) will be an advantage
• Proficient knowledge in SAP
• Proficient knowledge of TM1 budgeting tool
• Proficient knowledge in MS Office
• Basic knowledge of the Companies Acts, PFMA, and other related statutes
• Amadeus Reservation & Ticketing is an advantage
• Experience in supervisory role

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of SAP, APRA, TM1, Amadeus Res, Microsoft office
• Knowledge in GL/Vendor/ Debtor Account analysis, management, reporting
• Experience in internal and external customer communication and management
• Project Management and cost control
• Vendor Management
• Regulate and address issues of non-conformance
• Operates within Accounting Policies and Procedures
• Excellent written and verbal English communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with tight deadlines in a fast-paced and multi-cultural environment to achieve clear goals
• Problem solving
• Critical thinking
• Flexibility and ability to work under pressure
• Teamwork
• Be creative
• Have emotional intelligence
• Data analytics

Attributes

• Effective communication
• Technical expertise
• Stakeholder relationships
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Drives results
• Organisational awareness
• Ethics and integrity
• Collaboration

Additional InformationSAA is using an online recruitment tool. Applicants are required to complete an individual registration profile capturing essential personal and career selection criteria. Applicants must please note that they only need to complete the online registration once and thereafter they can update their online profiles as and when necessary.PLEASE NOTE: The onus are on applicants to ensure all mandatory fields are completed. Incomplete online profiles will be disqualified from the application process. Online profiles are used for screening and shortlisting purposes. A CV is only for verification and record keeping purposes. Applicants need to ensure that their online profiles are completed with correct and current information. Incomplete sections can disqualify applicants from the screening and selection process.This applies to all internal and external applicants.