Creditors Manager (AP)

SUMMARY:
Excellent opportunity for a Creditors Manager (Accounts payable), Construction industry, Midrand, Johannesburg (R Market-related, Highly NEG)

POSITION INFO:

Our Client, a major player in the Construction Industry is seeking to URGENTLY appoint a dynamic and suitably experienced Creditors Manager for their Midrand, Johannesburg based Operations.

 MAIN PURPOSE FOR THE ROLE:

• Management of the creditors function and strengthening the Procure to Pay process within the company.
• Understanding of the accruals concept of accounting
• To manage a team of 4 members
• Team Management – developing and upskilling team members
• Stakeholder Management  – able to work well with people internally (creditors, management, procurement, site personnel) as well as externally – suppliers
• Problem-solving ability
• Focus on accuracy with attention to detail a priority
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure

 KEY COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:

• Formal Finance Qualification – degree as a minimum ESSENTIAL
• Minimum  Bcom (Accounting), or ND (Accounting)
• Experience as a Creditor’s Manager for more than 3 years
• Must have Management experience of at least 3 team members
• Accounting system experience in both the GL and AP module
• Advanced Excel skills
• People’s person – able to work well with people internally (creditors, management, procurement, site personnel) as well as externally – suppliers
• Understanding of the accruals concept of accounting
• Buildsmart experience a bonus
• If no Buildsmart then at least accounting system experience in both the GL and AP module
• Deadline driven – NON NEGOTIABLE
• Good with time management and able to assist others with their time management
• Construction experience would be advantageous
• Excel skills of a high standard required – need to be completely computer literate and able to run formulae such as sum, vlookup etc.
• Focus on accuracy
• Ability to dig into the detail where required to reach resolution

 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To form the bridge between the team and site – and to support both
• Support the supplier development role
• Supervise team members ensuring deliverables are met, accurately and on time.
• Review of rental reconciliations monthly
• Review of creditors reconciliations monthly
• Review of credit card expense claims monthly
• Review of COD, ad-hoc reconciliations
• Review and sign off of credit applications and short term leases
• Post creditors team batches in the accounting system after review
• Negotiating discounts with suppliers (when required)
• Monthly review of creditors and sub-contractors age analysis
• Monthly review of age analysis to flag long outstanding items/items that haven’t been matched/rounding issues etc.
• May be required to do some creditors reconciliations, if need arises
• Maintaining the prepayment accounts and ensuring that items are cleared timeously
• Maintain vendor database
• Ensuring that the team process payments in the accounting system within 1 business day of payment
• Weekly and Monthly review of creditors/sub-contractor reconciliations
• Ensure all back up is attached to the claim and that the expenditure is incurred in terms of the policy; review costing of the claims; ensure claim has both employee and manager signature; liaison with employee and/or their manager to ensure any queries on the claim are resolved within 7 days of claim receipt from employee.
• Consolidating and review of creditors cashflows – weekly for ad hoc payments, and monthly for 30 day creditors (within deadlines set)
• Assist creditors team in resolving long outstanding items on their reconciliations – e.g. long outstanding approvals
• Ad-hoc assistance provided to financial accountant/controller – assisting with fixed journal entries – e.g. provision journals, prepayment journals, depreciation journals, loan journals.

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PLEASE NOTE:

• Closing date for applications is 28^th July  2021
• Should you not receive our relayed invitation for an interview with the client within two weeks of the closing date, please accept that your application has not been unsuccessful.
• The client reserves the right to make an appointment aligned to their EE Plan.
• The client reserves the right not to make an appointment.  

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