Intern Junior Accountant

About The Role

Team – Global Markets Business Partners

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Sandton, South Africa, Office. Full time, 37.5 hours per week.

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Financial reconciliations & month-end accounting
• Analytical problem-solving
• Excel & finance systems proficiency

What this role is all about:

The Intern Junior Accountant willplay a foundational role in supporting the finance team through accurate financial processing, administration, and budgeting support. At its core, the role ensures that financial data is captured, reconciled, and maintained reliably, enabling informed decision-making and strong financial governance across the business. It’s an entry-to-early career role where the individual contributes to core finance processes while building practical experience and capability.

Key Actions

• 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 operational efficiency

What do you need to thrive?

• Relevant academic foundation, including a Diploma (or Degree) in Accounting or Financial Management, providing strong grounding in core finance principles.
• Solid working knowledge in finance, built through early-career experience (±1 year) or exposure to a finance environment.
• Proficiency in Excel (basic to intermediate level) to support reconciliations, analysis, and reporting tasks
• Familiarity with financial systems such as SAP or Sage, enabling effective navigation, processing, and data management
• Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and financial processes, aligned to degree-level capability within the discipline
• Developing professional capability, with the capacity to build depth of knowledge through hands-on experience and continuous learning

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• Retirement support – We will match your contributions up to 5% of your salary
• Health & wellbeing – Discovery Medical Health Scheme
• Financial protection - Life assurance, income protection and short and long-term disability insurance

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w****e will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.

About Us

Vitality South Africa plays a key role in the development and delivery of the shared‑value insurance model within the Discovery Group. The team leads key strategic initiatives in the South African market, strengthens alignment across the organisation, and ensures the successful implementation of Vitality’s health and wellness programmes. In addition, the team provides specialised expertise, cutting edge technology, behavioural science and health and wellness, drawing on both global innovation and local market insight. Roles within Vitality South Africa are dynamic and fast‑paced. As such, we are seeking individuals who are adaptable, solutions‑oriented, and capable of delivering high‑quality, sustainable value in a complex and evolving environment.

Employment Equity: The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.