Junior Accountant

Who are we

TUNL is a Cape Town-based shipping tech platform on a mission to help South African merchants compete globally. We've worked with over 5,000 brands — from first-time exporters figuring out their very first shipment, to established businesses learning to scale and operationalise their international shipping.

Last year alone, we helped move R152 million worth of South African goods across borders, contributing to local job creation and economic growth. Brands like Veldskoen, Freedom of Movement, and Sealand trust us to make world-class shipping accessible and manageable.

We're a small, high-performance team that moves fast. If you want your work to matter from day one, this is the place. This is a hybrid role based in Paarden Eiland, Cape Town, with approximately three days a week in office.

Your mission

On receivables, you'll own customer accounts end to end, billing queries, collections, allocations and reconciliations keeping internal teams informed of where accounts stand. On payables, you'll own the supplier payment run, from statement reconciliation to loading payments accurately and on time. Your output lands in the management accounts every month, so you'll know exactly how it got there.

Daily

• Track cash position

• Customer billing queries

• Credit control and customer account management

• Daily office management 

Weekly

• Supplier payment run: prepare, reconcile to statements and load

• Payment allocations and ledger accuracy

• Xero and Dext maintenance

• Debtors reporting for management

Month-End

• Bank and debtors reconciliations

• Receivables analysis: what the ledger actually tells us about how customers pay

• Marketing spend analysis 

• Reviewing and maintaining subscriptions and tooling

• Fixed asset register maintenance

What good looks like

• Recurring reports — daily cash, debtors, subscriptions and tooling — land on schedule without a reminder

• Month-end closes on time, every time — no chasing, no surprises

• Healthy customer relationships: billing queries are logged, followed up, and resolved efficiently, and the customer knows we're on top of our numbers

• Leadership always has visibility — cash position, open items, and anything that could affect cash or a customer relationship are surfaced proactively, not reactively

• Customer accounts are reconciled and the aged analysis is current and accurate

• Customers pay on time, overdues get chased and debtors days comes down

• The office just works, stocked, running and renewed on time, without anyone having to ask

Your competencies

1. Clear communicator. Excellent written and verbal. You follow up with carriers, suppliers and internal teams without being asked.

2. Inquisitive. You ask why, not just how. You take feedback well and you want to grow.

3. Owns it completely. Disciplined, diligent, accountable. You don't need to be managed and you don't drop balls.

4. Calm in complexity. TUNL moves fast and things change. You create order, not noise.

5. Curious with numbers. Getting it to balance is step one. You want to know what the numbers are actually telling you, and you'll go digging to find out

6. Builds it better. Doing the same thing by hand every month should bug you. Automate it or put a process behind it. We'll give you the tools.

Your background

• BCom in Accounting or equivalent

• 2+ years in a banking, debtors, reconciliations, or general accounting role

• Advanced Google Sheets or Excel (we use Google Sheets)

• Ideally: Xero, Dext