Trade Payables Accountant

Listing reference: woolw_001048
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 6 February 2025
Position summary
Industry: Auditing/Accounting
Job category: Other: Banking, Finance, Insurance, Stockbroking
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Permanent
EE position: No
Introduction
To provide the business with a payment processing service including all the required accounting policies, procedures and processes to ensure the effective recording of all payments for all local trade suppliers for goods and services.
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, etc

Minimum 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

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