Overview
Assistant: Accounts Payable Jobs in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at Oceana Group Limited
Title: Assistant: Accounts Payable
Company: Oceana Group Limited
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of assigned vendor account portfolio, including local and foreign vendors.
- Validate and authenticate invoice detail to ensure compliance with statutory requirements
- Validate and authenticate invoice detail to ensure the amount agrees to the authorized receipted purchase order (SAP 3-way match)
- Timeous processing of invoices, credit notes, prepayments accurately in SAP per SLA
- Resolve exceptions on unprocessed invoices to ensure timeous capturing of these invoices
- Monitor GRNV list for old aged items and ensure these items are cleared
- Management of work load via the service management tool to achieve a 75% resolution rate per SLA
- Reconcile supplier accounts from the supplier's statement to the creditors ledger for review by the Team Leader
- Resolve reconciling items timeously
- Prepare weekly and monthly payment cashflows, ensuring payment per terms
- Prepare payment proposals based on reviewed supplier reconciliations as per payment terms
- Load payments on Standard Bank CATS
- Update payments made in SAP
- Save all processed documentation, payments made, and supplier reconciliations daily once completed.
- Clear, concise and courteous engagement with suppliers to obtain supplier invoices, statements and resolve issues
- Compile query lists, exceptions and ensure resolution of issues with the business divisions in a timeous manner.
- Assist with audit related queries and requests on an ad-hoc basis.
Knowledge, Skills And Attributes
- Computer literacy in MS Office (Excel to Intermediate levels)
- Excellent communication skills
- Methodical and meticulous with attention to detail
- Hard worker
Qualifications And Experience
- 2 – 3 years' experience as a Creditors Clerk / Accounts Payable Assistant
- Experience within a Manufacturing/FMCG environment
- Experience working with ERP systems such as SAP etc.
- Financial Shared Services Centre experience advantageous
- South African