Accounts Payable Clerk - Trade at takealot.com

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Match supplier invoices with goods received notes 
• Capture supplier invoices 
• Capture and calculate various discount types on supplier accounts
• Request and review month end statements from suppliers accurately and timely
• Perform monthly account reconciliations and submit for payment
• Ensure suppliers are paid at correct price and for correct quantities received
• Manage supplier age analysis and payment terms
• Send remittance advice to suppliers
• Resolve payment/account queries with suppliers
• Communicate intake variances with warehouse/retail staff members
• Follow up with suppliers on credit notes for returns and other discounts
• Maintaining a clean set of Accounts Payable reconciliations 
• Ensure proper filing system is kept
• Assist with ad-hoc task as required by accounting team

Attributes required: 

• Execute the workflow according to set priorities and deadlines
• Organizing and prioritizing of task
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Must have excellent communication skills and be fluent in English
• Ability to work independently but also be a team player
• Must be computer literate in MS Excel packages 

Qualifications and Experience: 

• Matric / Grade 12 with Accounting as major subject 
• BCom in Accounting or Commerce
• 2-3 years experience in Accounts Payable space
• Retail experience advantageous 
• Proficiency Microsoft Excel -intermediate
• General knowledge of Accounting

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is respectful but forthright
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING