Account Payable Team Leader

1 week ago

Cape Town, South Africa takealot.com Full time

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative and hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related Total Remuneration Package, which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won't be bored, as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

**The position reports to the Accounts Payable Manager**

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Responsible for all international trade vendor payments end to end
- Develop and implement standardized departmental controls and policies to ensure increased accuracy and efficiency, to scale International trade..
- Manage the supplier onboarding and maintenance process, including continuing development of the process at scale
- Full ownership of all supporting documentation flow, relating to direct imports, in line with best practice and relevant legislation
- Build, train, manage, maintain and an effective and independent team, to handle day-to-day responsibilities.
- Work closely with import clearing agencies, international trade department and buying team, to optimize processes and automate transactional flow
- Calculating and processing foreign currency exchange differences,
- Reporting of key KPI's, relating to International Trade
- Review supplier reconciliations to ensure completeness and accuracy of payments
- Resolving non-routine supplier queries
- Manage supplier account's age analysis
- Managing weekly and monthly payment cycle
- Assistance with financial month end and year end close

**Attributes required**:

- Continuous improvement
- and scaling mindset
- Ability to lead from the front
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work independently
- Problem solving
- Self motivated
- Deadline driven

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Relevant tertiary qualification in accounting (BCom Accounting preferred)
- 3-4 years experience in International Accounts Payable or similar position for Trade suppliers
- Experience in managing a team
- Advance Excel
- SAGE advantageous

**The Environment**:

- 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 forthright but respectful
- 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 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
- **thinks like an owner** of the business.
- is **SMART, has INTEGRITY** and **is HARDWORKING**

If you meet the above you are an **Extraordinary Mind** so come and join us
- Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference_

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