Senior Accounts Payable Specialist (12 month contract)

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

We have a vacancy for an experienced Accounts Payable Specialist in the Fourways area.

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Requirements:Â

• Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Accounting/Management Accounting or in a related field preferredÂ
• Qualification in CA is preferred
• Minimum 5 years Accounts Payable experience with experience related to performing reconciliations or general financial management experience
• Strong MS Office experience
• Oracle knowledge preferred

Skills Required:

• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Excellent follow-up skills
• Detail oriented, able to multitask and meet deadlines
• Proficient understanding of internal controls related to Accounts Payable and General Ledger
• Accounting
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office suite
• Oracle knowledge preferred
• Strong relationship-development skills resulting in long term mutually beneficial client relationships.
• Self-motivated; Able to work both independently to complete tasks and respond to department
• requests, as well as collaborating with others to utilize resources and knowledge of others in
• identifying quality solutions.
• Strong organization, planning and project management skills; ability to prioritize tasks for both self and team to meet business requirements and deadlines.
• Strong leadership skills; Ability to drive and motivate team to achieve results within the department.
• Ability to work in a time-sensitive and high-volume environment
• Ability to drive work both independently toward the successful attainment of department goals and project completion dates, and as part of a team to leverage input and knowledge base of others within the company in providing well rounded and thoughtful information and solutions
• Ability to identify key contacts for follow up; excellent ability to communicate project and status updates to team and cross-functionally to ensure understanding.
• Good strategic and problem-solving skills to effectively influence decision making in key negotiations.

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Responsibilities:

Land management

Supporting Land management department and ensuring accurate and timely payments to landlords

• Support to land management – dealing with landlord queries and liaising between SSC and land
• management
• Landlord payment file – follow up on monthly landlord payment file noting discrepancies in comparison to the prior month and follow up on those to ensure resolution
• Landlord payment file – identify VATable landlords and create a file of expected ground rent from
• Property – add VAT for VATable landlords and ensure that this ties into monthly payment file
• Accrue for on hold amounts monthly and follow up to ensure resolution within 30 days else not explanation for delay
• Prepare an on-hold lease analysis file
• Ensure communicated to TTG

Supporting BEE reporting and management the accounting around BEE loan agreements

• Input spend per supplier into BEE software
• Ensure the SD and ED beneficiaries are settling their loans in accordance with the loan agreements and accurately recording in accounting records including reconciliation
• Monitoring the timely settlement of SD and ED beneficiaries invoices to ensure maximum benefit from the points

AP accounting

• APARR report – prepare reconciliation for Accrual account and clear outstanding items within the 6 months rolling period, unless there’s an explanation for the outstanding accrual which should be noted
• Project focus on KPI to achieve timely receipting as per COE
• Ensuring invoices received are processed – visibility of all invoices submitted to SSC
• Run report on receipting vs invoicing and ensure suppliers are paid in a timely manner
• Liaise with the cash and bank SSC to identify failed payments and the resolution thereof
• Note the supplier payment terms are being applied as required – settlement discount terms applied
• correctly
• Prepare AP reconciliation and ensure items greater than 120 days are cleared
• Prepayments – prepare the prepayment recon and ensure items greater than 60 days are cleared
• Deposit reconciliation – ensure items are correctly allocated to deposit recon and substantiated
• Provide proof of payments for municipality payments

Intercompany

• Processing intercompany invoicing

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