Clerk: Trade Creditors

Ackermans has an exciting opportunity for a Clerk: Trade Creditors. This Clerk: Trade Creditors position will involve the verifying and capturing of invoices, statement reconciliations, capturing of journals and completing general ledger reconciliations of our Trade Creditor's accounts and various other financial/ admin duties within the Trade Creditors team function and will be part of a structured Finance team.

We're a fully in-office team. This role is based at our Support Centre in Kuils River, Cape Town.

**Key responsibilities**:
1) Trade Creditors payments
- Ensure valid tax invoices are received
- Process & match invoices/credits
- Ensure accurate processing of VAT
- Perform supplier statement analysis
- Perform supplier payment reconciliations
- Ensure suppliers are in receipt of payment remittances

2) General ledger reconciliations & Reporting
- Process expenses to correct general ledger accounts
- Perform relevant general ledger reconciliations
- Run month end reports
- Perform control account reconciliations
- Assist with clearing relevant unreconciled entries on bank reconciliations (when applicable)
- Process journals as required

3) Supplier management & Other Administration
- Ensure accurate Vendor Masterdata information
- Maintain good external and internal stakeholder's relationships
- Ensure proper storage of documentation via sharepoint
- Efficiently resolving customer queries
- Support to stores

**Qualifications required**:
Essential:

- A National Diploma in Accounting or similar

Preferred:

- Relevant Bachelors Degree

**Knowledge required**:

- Strong administration knowledge and ability
- Knowledge of the creditors process

**Experience required**:
Essential:

- 2 -3 years’ relevant finance administration experience, including strong reconciliation experience

Preferred:

- Experience within a retail business environment
- Creditors experience

**Skills required**:

- Computer skills, intermediate to advanced Excel
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Above average numerical ability
- Ability to work under pressure and large volumes of work
- Customer relations