Junior Creditors Accountant

SUMMARY:
My client, an established fruit exporter based in Stellenbosch is seeking to employ a Junior Creditors Accountant.

The successful candidate will either have a Diploma in Management Accounting or equivalent and one (1) year experience in cost management of fruit exports.

POSITION INFO:
Education Required

• Diploma in Management Accounting or equivalent – IF EXPERIENCE SUFFICIENT QUALIFICATION NOT NEEDED
• In-house and/or external training in supply chain processes, and their associated costs
• Advanced Excel/spreadsheet skills – lookups’ import mapping

• Initiative, must be able to work independently, must be able to work under pressure.
• Meeting deadlines set out by Manager
• Accuracy and great attention to detail, excellent analytical skills
• Good systems skills, ability to work with big volumes of data, and data manipulation
• Interaction & effective communication with colleagues, take ownership and responsibility, and show effective self-management to prioritize

• Experience in the fruit industry would be of advantageous
• Advance Excel skills
• QX proficient

• Correct allocation of Actual costs to correct cost codes.
• Check for estimated costs captured in the system where actual costs are incurred.
• Check that actual costs do not exceed estimate costs, except where incident log indicates “own “cost.
• Prepare remittance for payments.
• Month end reconciliation.
• Pass payment to Service Provider Manager
• Service Providers paid on time.
• Resolve discrepancies on invoices.
• Ensure payments balance out.
• Allocate remittances on payment sheet for final payment.
• Once paid send remittances to relevant service provider

• Receive and code invoices.
• Register batches for processing.
• Input of invoices into QX system.
• Handling disputed invoices
• Obtain daily exchange rates and capture in QX system.
• Print/Save cost capture reports.
• Ensure creditors receive their remittances and POP’s timeously
• Liaise with Logistics Department to ensure all costs recovered and with Service Providers to ensure all invoices are received timeously.
• Capture all Service Provider Invoices on QX.
• Print Cost capture Report-Identify profit/losses liaise when there are differences/rectify when needed.
• Link Service Provider Invoices to actual shipments.
• Compare actual Service Provider Invoices against provisional costs.
• Attend to all Service Providers Invoices queries with relevant departments immediately to resolve before payment is due.
• Reconciliation of Service Providers against monthly Statements.
• Prepare payments of Service Provider Invoices against payment terms.
• Prepare remittance on QX.
• Prepare folder for final payments (Remittance, Cost Capture Report/Recon/Statement/Invoices)
• Monthly payments are ready by 25th of each month.
• Effective and professional communication disputes.
• Financial Year End Reconciliation (Service Providers.)

• Processing of all costs for final producer payments.
• Ensure all costs are correctly allocated to account sales for producer’s final payments.
• Invoice costs to Producers.
• Manage Producer debtor’s account.

• Automate all processes that can be automated.
• Using Excel spreadsheet and formulas (V- and X- lookup ).
• Efficiency and Productivity