Accounts Payable Clerk - Sandton at Empact Group

The main purpose of the job:

The incumbent will be responsible to ensure that suppliers’ accounts are correct and paid. 

Desirable Education and experience:

• Relevant qualifications 
• 2 years’ previous experience 
• Experience in managing an area of a payments book exceeding 50-100 suppliers  
• Good people skills 
• Knowledge of Credit Act, Companies Act 
• Excellent MS Office skills 
• Trained and with moderate exposure to the SAP Finance module - specifically accounts payable transactions 

Key areas of responsibility:

Maintain supplier accounts:

• To reconcile vendor ledgers to supplier statement by calendar month.

• Resolving supplier queries timeously. Engage with suppliers, procurement, Finance Business Partners, Unit Managers, and Regional Managers where required
• Going to see suppliers where required.
• Performing invoice / credit note verification
• Investigating price and quantity variances on invoices and requesting credit notes from suppliers where required
• Make payments timeously per payment terms.
• Requesting copies of outstanding invoices, credits, and statements from units and/or supplier
• Blocking invoices for payment where they are under investigation and unblock once cleared
• Verifying payment proposal items against reconciled accounts and supporting documents
• Updating vendor files via procurement with accounting clerk information monthly.
• Reviewing and maintaining GR/IR account by processing all valid invoices and credit notes, by deadline set.
• Take ultimate responsibility for supplier-related actions/issues/problems until they are resolved.
• Control sheet and final Vlookup completion by deadline set.