Supplier Finance Manager - Brackenfell at Shoprite Group of Companies

Job Objectives

• Responsible for overseeing and executing the day-to-day suppliers’ platform operations and ensuring operational effectiveness.  
• Actively manage and execute all financial transactional activities including account reconciliations between the supplier platform and SAP, monthly income statement preparations and related financial analysis.  
• Resolve identified discrepancies, including payments recons and ensure all queries resolutions. 
• Act as a liaison with the creditor payment team and the suppliers and ensure the correct payments are made and facilitate payment approvals thereof. 
• Provide financial support with the analysis of supplier funding opportunities to support the operation as required. 
• Ensure the accurate and timeous delivery of management report inputs. Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly financial transactional information as required and ensure compliant data storage and accessibility for future reference: reporting, customer request, audit, etc  
• Responsible for the engagement with the platform IT service providers, facilitating incident management and ensuring resolution of incidents and ongoing improvements to enhance the Platform experience.  
• Work closely with the audit function to ensure that all risks and related areas of reconciliations are identified for audit purposes - at all operational levels.  
• Monitor, control, and support the platform service delivery, ensuring systems, methodologies, and procedures are in place and followed. 
• Develop and maintain the credit risk procedure to ensure the recovery of loans advanced to suppliers as per the defined procedure. 
• Manage operational risk by identifying risks and implementing mitigating risk controls. 
• Ensure awareness of the relevant compliance framework and create stakeholder awareness by ensuring relevant compliance through monitoring and reporting. 
• Ensure awareness, involvement, and support of all key stakeholders and cross-functional teams i.e., buyers, suppliers, Finance and various financial services functional areas by building strong functional teams and maintaining robust collaboration and communication. 
• Identify and onboard new suppliers to support business growth and continuity.  

Qualifications

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) - (preferred) 
• BCom Finance, Commercial or equivalent - (essential) 

Experience

• + 4 years of relevant experience in the Financial Services industry: operational process level in-store transactional activities and account reconciliations at a group level with IFRS, Tax, and VAT knowledge - (essential).  
• Exposure to and an understanding of Corporate, Retail, and/or Customer interfacing environment in a similar role (non-sector specific) - (preferred). 
• Solid Advanced Excel experience - (essential). 

Knowledge and Skills

• Exposure to SAP - (preferred).