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. ​ 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!"