Description

The Intern Junior Accountant will support the finance team through accurate financial processing, administration, and budgeting support.

The role focuses on ensuring that financial data is captured, reconciled, and maintained reliably to support informed decision-making and strong financial governance across the business.

This is an entry-to-early career role where the successful candidate will contribute to core finance processes while building practical experience and capability.

Team: Global Markets Business Partners

Working Pattern: Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Sandton, South Africa office.

Working Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week.

Vitality is happy to discuss flexible working.

Responsibilities

• Deliver accurate month-end financial processing, including expense accounting and reconciliations to ensure reliable reporting.
• Execute balance sheet and intercompany reconciliations, identifying variances and resolving discrepancies timeously.
• Provide financial control support, contributing to audit readiness and ensuring compliance with finance standards.
• Resolve finance-related queries from business partners, enabling clarity and informed decision-making across teams.
• Support budgeting and financial administration activities, contributing to effective financial planning and tracking.
• Contribute to finance projects and system enhancements, including testing, implementation support, and delivery against defined plans.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure accurate financial information flow, strengthen alignment, and improve operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Relevant academic foundation, including a Diploma or Degree in Accounting or Financial Management.
• Solid working knowledge in finance, built through early-career experience of approximately 1 year or exposure to a finance environment.
• Basic to intermediate Excel proficiency to support reconciliations, analysis, and reporting tasks.
• Familiarity with financial systems such as SAP or Sage.
• Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and financial processes.
• Developing professional capability, with the capacity to build knowledge through hands-on experience and continuous learning.

Skills & Competencies

• Financial reconciliations and month-end accounting.
• Analytical problem-solving.
• Excel and finance systems proficiency.
• Financial processing.
• Financial administration.
• Budgeting support.
• Audit readiness.
• Query resolution.
• Team collaboration.
• Attention to accuracy.

Other

Benefits may include:

• Bonus schemes.
• Retirement support with matched contributions up to 5% of salary.
• Discovery Medical Health Scheme.
• Life assurance.
• Income protection.
• Short and long-term disability insurance.
• Flexible working.
• Career development opportunities.

Vitality South Africa plays a key role in the development and delivery of the shared-value insurance model within the Discovery Group.

The company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process.

As an Equal Opportunities employer, Vitality actively encourages and welcomes people with various disabilities to apply.