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The candidate should instinctively build a formula-driven file rather than retype or hard-code figures.\nA sound understanding of how a trial balance, debtors ledger and creditors ledger relate to one another, and of control account reconciliation.\nDemonstrable reconciliation discipline - experience preparing reconciliations \nExperience working across multiple legal entities.\nNB : This is an on-site role.\nAdvantageous:Sage Pastel Partner experience, particularly extracting and interrogating data from it.\nZoho experience, especially importing opening balances or master data.\nPrior involvement in a system migration, data conversion or implementation.\nAudit background, or experience preparing files that have gone through an audit.\nPower Query, Power BI or similar data-handling tools.\nResponsibilities but not limited to:Data Preparation and Import\nExtract trial balance, accounts receivable and accounts payable data from Sage Pastel Partner for each entity in scope.\nMap the Pastel chart of accounts to the Zoho chart of accounts and resolve accounts that do not map cleanly.\nPrepare and cleanse customer and supplier master data ahead of import - duplicates, inactive accounts, naming inconsistencies, missing details.\nBuild the import files to the format Zoho requires and run the imports for each entity.\nImport open transaction detail where required, so that debtor and creditor ageing carries across correctly rather than as a single balance.\nReconciliation and Audit File\nPrepare, per entity, an Excel reconciliation comparing the Pastel closing balance to the imported Zoho balance for every account in the trial balance.\nReconcile the accounts receivable and accounts payable age analyses to their respective control accounts in both systems.\nQuantify and explain every variance. 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