Bank & Reconciliation Clerk

Fetches every bank statement, codes the transactions, matches them off, and hands you only the items that will not reconcile.

Bank capture and daily reconciliation 37 systems From R3 500 / month Up to 2 000 transactions a month included

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What the Bank & Reconciliation Clerk actually does

The whole job, in the order it happens — not a feature list.

1

Fetches the statements

Signs in to each bank every morning and pulls the statement — including the business accounts that still have no working feed into Xero or Sage. Credit cards, loan accounts and merchant settlements as well.

2

Normalises them

Turns six banks' worth of different CSV, OFX and PDF layouts into one consistent set of transactions, with the duplicates that come from overlapping date ranges removed.

3

Codes each line

Applies your rules first, then the coding history for that description and amount. A debit order coded the same way for eleven months running is not a decision that needs a person.

4

Matches them off

Reconciles receipts against outstanding invoices and payments against the creditors ledger — including part-payments, and single lump sums covering several invoices at once.

5

Proves the balance

Posts the coded, matched transactions to the ledger and produces the reconciliation with opening and closing balances proved against the statement.

6

Reports the breaks

Lists what did not match and why — unpresented items, unattributed deposits, amounts that disagree — so the only thing left on your desk is the part that genuinely needs judgement.

What it brings to you

Most days it finishes the reconciliation before anyone opens a laptop. What it cannot resolve, it leaves in a queue with the statement line and its best guess attached.

  • A deposit it cannot attribute to a customer
  • A payment with no matching supplier invoice
  • A transaction description it has never coded before
  • A statement balance that does not agree to the ledger
  • A statement the bank did not produce on time
  • A transaction outside the value you set for review

What it puts on your dashboard

A digital worker you cannot measure is one you cannot trust. Every run is logged, and the numbers below are reported without being asked for.

  • Transactions captured and matched, per account, per day
  • Auto-match rate, and the descriptions that keep defeating it
  • Days since each account last reconciled
  • Unreconciled value, aged
  • Statements that arrived late, or not at all
  • Accounts where the balance has not agreed for more than a week

The systems it works in

37 pre-built connections, ready on day one. Where a system publishes an API, the digital worker uses it directly from the cloud.

South African banks

Ledgers

Card, merchant and settlement

Where statements land

Reporting

And the systems with no API at all

Business banking portals with no feed into your accounting package — the bot signs in and downloads the statement on your machine.

This is the part a cloud-only tool cannot do. The Automize bot runs on your own machine, so anything a person can open, it can work in — the desktop accounting package, the bank portal, the supplier site with no integration.

Where it runs, and what never leaves

On your machine

The bot is installed where the work happens, so it can reach the systems that never got an API.

Credentials stay put

Passwords live in your operating system's own keychain and never sync to us. We hold the steps, not the secrets.

POPIA and GDPR by design

Client financial data is processed locally. Servers are in AWS Ireland and hold process definitions and execution logs.

Every step audited

Step-by-step logs, screenshots and timestamps for every run — and a record of who approved what.

Questions about the Bank & Reconciliation Clerk

That is the case this role exists for. Where a bank publishes an API the digital worker uses it; where the business account has no working feed — which is still most of them in South Africa — the bot signs in to the portal on your own machine and downloads the statement itself. A cloud-only tool has no way to do this.
It needs credentials to sign in, and they are stored on the machine the bot runs on, in the operating system's own keychain. They never sync to Automize's servers. We recommend a read-only banking profile — this role never needs to move money.
Every morning by default, and you can set it to run more often. Merchant settlement accounts are usually worth pulling daily; a dormant loan account monthly.
The bot re-plans the step and carries on, then tells you it did. Every self-healed step is reported so you can see what changed rather than discovering it when a run fails.
Yes, though the local bank portals are where it earns its keep. In the UK and UAE most business accounts already feed the ledger directly, so the role does more matching and less fetching.

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The job nobody wants and every client needs — usually the first two hours of a bookkeeper's day, every day.