Creditors Manager

**Overview**:
To manage the efficient and effective functioning of the AP department by providing leadership to the team.

**Qualifications**:

- B. Comm degree or B.Tech qualification
- CIMA

**Experience**:

- 3 years demonstrated accounting experience
- 3 years demonstrated experience in Costing a manufacturing environment

**Duties**:
**General**
Provide financial support to the business in terms of AP function
To take responsibility for recruiting, supervising, developing, training and managing the performance of the creditor’s supervisors and clerks in order to ensure efficient delivery of the accounts payable department
Communicate with finance senior management on internal and external issues
Investigate and answer AP finance queries - fostering strong internal, external and international relationships
Ensure compliance with relevant Acts, legal demands and professional and ethical financial standards
Work in conjunction with the finance management team to improve financial reporting and business efficiencies
Drive the standardization of AP and supporting processes across the Agriculture and Supply chain and Manufacturing Operations divisions
Create an AP Center of Excellence with best practices that can be exported to the rest of the Group
Automating processes and optimizing systems in order to unlock efficiencies for AP
Liaise with the CPO to review the Procure to Pay process, propose improvements and implement changes within Accounts Payable
**Management of AP process**
To manage the relationship with vendors for the supply of goods and services in order to ensure good client relations and facilitate interdepartmental cohesion
To ensure compliance with the specific internal processes and procedures as well as specific legislation governing the unit in order to mitigate risk associated with non-compliance. (VAT Act, Companies Act, Exchange Control Regulations)
To take responsibility for facilitating the flow of information between the department and various external stakeholders or other departments
Processing of transactions through journals and performing any correcting journals required
Responsible for ensuring that accounts of all suppliers are reconciled so to exercise the necessary controls assurance that actual payments are in line with the invoiced amounts
Efficient planning of payments with the necessary bank approvals, ensuring that all payments made in accordance to payment term
Cash flow forecasting of outflows
Timeous reconciliation of GRNI,
Proactively managing supply chain finance creditors
Responsible for monthly accruals
Responsible for detecting deviations such as errors or omissions, if totals agree; if short payments have been made; or if any invoices remain outstanding
Responsible for ensuring that necessary actions are taken to determine causes of, and decisions made to rectify such discrepancies (e.g., contacting suppliers to obtain outstanding documentation or to point out errors in the invoicing process)
Responsible for examining listings, detecting long-outstanding amounts, and “cleaning up” listings to eliminate such listings
To gather details of monthly payments in relation to historical data in order to produce weekly and monthly cash forecasts of amounts to be paid

**Job Competencies**:
**Job Related Skills**
Accounting Software
Proficiency in MS Office Skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
Accounting for projects

**General**: