Trade Payables Accountant
Position summary
Introduction
Job description
• Ensuring timeous and accurate payments for all creditors based on standard payment terms.
• Responsible for ensuring effective transactional processing of payments to joint venture and EDI suppliers.
• EDI payments to local suppliers
• Ensuring standardization of payment terms for all creditors.
• Ensuring settlement discount is accurate and complete.
• Ensuring that invoice discrepancy report is reviewed daily, and all exceptions cleared timeously.
• Ensuring all debit balances, debit and credit memos are recovered timeously
• Ensuring all queries is resolved timeously.
• Provide assistance and information to resolve reconciling items on clearing accounts, including commitment accounts, and REIM clearing accounts
• Provide assistance and information to clear reconciling items on weekly unmatched receipts to GL reconciliation.
• Responsible for ensuring that accurate and complete provisions relating to local suppliers are raised.
• Responsible for ensuring that monthly/quarterly meetings are held with suppliers to identify and clear long outstanding and disputed items
• Responsible for ensuring effective overall understanding of the technical processes relating to local suppliers to facilitate resolution of breakdowns in systems integration.
• Responsible for ensuring effective transactional testing of enhancements to the local payable processes, including implementation and change management.
• Responsible for Operational Reporting in line with best practice.
• Assist in ensuring effective on-boarding of suppliers and buyer/suppler compliance to the opening / amending of supplier accounts
• Compliance with best practice internal controls and accounting practices.
• Establish SLA with key stakeholders.
• Implement the optimal organizational structures for local creditors
• Responsible for ensuring that month end deliverables are delivered timeously and accurately
• Responsible for ensuring that year end audit deliverables are achieved
People management, IPM, development plans, leave, etcMinimum requirements
• Sound understanding of accounting processes and practices
• Able to draft concise performance reports
• Able to influence BU management with regard to process compliance and risk management
• Strong management and leadership skill
• B.Com or Equivalent
• 4-5 years management experience
• Experience in developing accounting processes and procedures