Accounts Payable Specialist - Johannesburg, South Africa - Empower Talent

Description

Job title:
Accounts Payable Specialist


Years' experience:
min 3 years in an AP or finance-related role

Employment type:
Full time, temporary contract (4 months)

Location:
Lanseria - must be able to travel to location.


Date position required:
1 December 2023


Salary range and benefits:
R20,000 per month, four month contract


Working environment:
Modern, open plan, manufacturing environment

Reviews monthly payable and accrual transactions, maintains appropriate accrual levels for the company, pre
- pares and posts journal entries, prepares monthly account reconciliations, accounts payable oversight, pro
- cesses of vendor transactions.


Main tasks & responsibilities:
Review, track and maintain vendor billing information in the financial systems, ensure accuracy and com
- pliance with the local accounting regulations

Work closely together with the company's purchasing department to ensure transactions are being recorded accurately and vendors are all paid on time

Full responsibility for management and analysis of all vendor and expense accounts

Close & reconcile A/P related GL accounts on timely basis at month end.

Manage advance payment accounts and analyse aging and old amounts not settled and ensure compliance

to the company policy

Monthly Aging reports of payables

Ensure month closing is achieved related to payable and expense responsibilities (cut off time for booking

invoices, building and reversal of accruals, amortization of prepaid expenses)

Check for completion of the supporting purchasing documents related to the invoices received (PO, Pay
- ment request and goods receiving forms)

Proceed to book the invoices on the D365 accounting systems after confirming a three way match between

(Invoice, PO, Goods Receipt)

Process weekly pay cycle runs by extracting all due invoices and preparing them for payment and sending

them via a due payments report to be approved by the accounting manager before forwarding to the treas
- ury department

Clear the interim account on a daily basis for all paid amounts, by allocating them from the interim account

to the correct vendor account and closing the vendor account by clearing the paid invoices

Maintain relationships with vendors and call for meetings or attend meetings to discuss any queries

File and archive all journal entries, invoices, credit/debit notes in a timely and proper manner

Payables by category report (show the due to payable and the actual month paid till end of concerned month classified as below.

Payable IC & payable non IC.

Payable for Capex PO & non-Capex PO.

Payables by kind of supplying (raw material, packing, spare parts, services & forwarders)


Job holder qualification and Experience:

• 35 year proven work experience in Accounting within an manufacturing company
• Bachelor Degree in Accounting
• Excellent Microsoft 365 & outlook skills
• Attention to detail and mathematical skills
• Knowledge of local Taxation laws
• Customer satisfactionoriented and excellent communication skills
• Excellent local language skills and English language skills in written and spoken

Job Type:
Temporary


Salary:
R20,000.00 per month


Application Question(s):

• Are you aware this is a 4month contract?
• This is an inoffice job, based in Lanseria

- can you commute?

• Do you have at least 1 year of MS 365/MS Dynamics?

Experience:

- accounts payable: 3 years (required)


Ability to Commute:

• Johannesburg, Gauteng (required)