Finance Administrator Intern

About this role

Discovery Life, part of Discovery, is hiring a Finance Administrator Intern at its Sandton office. This is a work-integrated learning internship. You will support the Cash Control team, which handles the money side of Individual Life, Invest, Group Risk and Umbrella Funds.

What you’ll do

• Learn the team’s processes and standard operating documents, and use them in your daily work.
• Complete the tasks on your assigned schedule on time.
• Reconcile daily billing and collections. Look into any items that do not follow business rules.
• Check bank statements every day against the system, and fix any differences you find.
• Reconcile debit order and payment files to the corporate database before they go to the bank, and check the bank’s responses.
• Allocate daily premiums and investigate unidentified deposits.
• Pass business queries to the right people, log failures, and report them to management. Prepare daily and monthly reports and store them securely for audits.

What you need

• TVET N6 Financial qualification (essential).
• Matric (advantageous).
• Intermediate skills in MS Word, MS Excel and MS Outlook.
• Good maths and analytical skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of the life insurance market (advantageous).

Is this job for you?

This role suits you if you have finance training and like accurate, detailed work with numbers. You should be comfortable with spreadsheets and happy to work with colleagues and managers to solve problems. Discovery also encourages people with disabilities to apply.

Tips before you apply

• Have your N6 certificate or statement of results, and your matric certificate if you have it, ready to upload.
• On your CV, show any Excel, reconciliation or bookkeeping work, even from college projects or part-time jobs.
• Give a short example of a time you spotted an error in numbers and followed it up. This shows the analytical skills the team needs.