Accounts Payable Manager

1 month ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Recruitment Matters Africa Full time

Our client is looking for an Accounts Payable Manager to join their team.

To set up and provide efficient, effective and seamless accounts payable processes that support the rest of the business and allow them to focus on the key front end business.

**Responsibilities**:
1. Financial control
- Managing the company's cash flow by preparing payment files and ensuring suppliers are paid strictly within their credit terms.
- Full responsibility for open orders ageing ensuring exceptions are low, customers are billed on time and suppliers can be paid seamlessly.
- Performing the month end closing process - Payments authorised and allocations done.
- Ensure monthly creditors reconciliations are performed and reviewed
- Ensure monthly Procard & E-Nett recons are performed and reviewed
- Following up of reconciling items
- Review and sign off of creditors age analysis on a monthly basis
- Identify and report on risk areas within the business
- Creation of a One Best Way process within accounts payable and invoicing department.

2. Process efficiency
- Explore new technology solutions
- Improving quantity and accuracy of invoices captured by Cognizant, and providing support to the offshore team on query management
- Ownership of training for all people in this department
- Work in partnership with front end to deliver processes, systems and workflow that improve productivity whilst protecting the business
- Become a champion on all systems the accounts payable team work on

3. Leadership of team, including setting the direction and culture of the team
- Responsible for onboarding and training of new team members
- Setting up growth and development plans for each staff member
- Daily team meetings (especially starting off)
- Monthly 1-on-1s with direct reports
- Biannual performance reviews
- Driving a vision of process excellence, continual improvement and maintain a team aligned to this vision
- Coaching & Mentoring

4. Communication & stakeholder relationship management including query management with all stakeholders ensuring the agreed deliverables and turn-around times are adhered to

**Skills**:

- Team management skills ,
- Problem solving skills ,
- Organized & structured worker ,
- Exceptionally strong process related experience
- High level of attention to detail
- accuracy
- Excellent excel skills
- Continuous improvement mind-set and philosophy
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to develop relationships at all levels
- Good change management skills
- Strong Analysis capabilities
- Deadline driven
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- Ability to motivate and inspire others to deliver results
- Persistence and resilience
- Team player

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
- At least 5 years working in a creditors or accounting department (Travel management company experience advantageous)
- Protas experience crucial
- Proven leadership track record.

**Education**:

- Bachelors (required)

**Experience**:

- creditors or accounting: 5 years (required)



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