Supplier Finance Manager

3 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Shoprite Full time

Purpose of the Job

The purpose of the Supplier Finance Manager is responsible to execute and takes ultimate accountability for the supplier service platform end to end process, enabling effective delivery through active stakeholder engagement, management, and ensuring operational excellence to achieve strategic delivery. The stakeholders will look to this role to provide financial expertise on the platform, ensuring its effectiveness as measured by supplier growth on the platform. The role ensures accurate transactional financial execution, process refinements, and general financial input to ensure support for the suppliers' platform and related operational effectiveness. The role works closely with the Financial Services-functional teams, buyers, and suppliers to pro-actively identify new suppliers and facilitate suppliers' onboarding discussions. Together with the Credit Risk team, this role assesses the financial fitness and liquidity of the suppliers and makes recommendations in terms of financial support and payment terms. 

Job Advert Details Job CategoryFinance 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. 
Build stakeholder’s platform knowledge by providing process, procedure, and system communications and facilitating ongoing improvements through automation, control implementation, and monitoring.
Engage stakeholders and present business opportunities to enable the achievement of the business strategy.
Actively share insights and information with relevant stakeholders - act as a financial services knowledge resource for functional teams and provide knowledge transfer to team members as necessary.
Deliver exceptional service that exceeds the stakeholders’ expectations through proactive innovation and appropriate solutions.

Qualifications

Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA(SA))
BCom Finance, Commercial or equivalent

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. 
Exposure to and an understanding of Corporate, Retail, and/or Customer interfacing environment in a similar role (non-sector specific).
Solid Advanced Excel experience.
Exposure to SAP. 

Knowledge and Skills

Self-motivated and driven with strong integrity - take accountability for actions and mistakes. 
Independent problem solver and analytical thinker. 
Teamwork and positive partnerships - a strong team player. 
Operational efficiency – someone who can spread themselves across multiple tasks simultaneously by working smartly, efficiently, and effectively. Diligently staying on top of the details and understanding how they fit into the big picture.
Financial accounting - applies accounting and tax concepts, financial statements, trial balance, and financial record-keeping process. Records financial transactions, compiles reports, and interrogates transactions. Ability to analyse and reconcile financial information and data. 
Business development - understands the sales cycle and processes within the context of the service offerings, including prospecting and the sales closing process. Integrates knowledge of the market and customer segmentation. Builds partnerships for new business opportunities. Displays a clear understanding of the company's business development plan and objectives. Comprehends the importance of understanding market trends.
Advanced technical calculation knowledge and application - applying range of mathematical concepts, operations, and relations accurately within a work context. Ability to formulate, represent, and solving problems numerical techniques. Creates tables and charts to solve or explain quantitative information.
Exceptional communication - approachable with excellent listening skills, adopting a range of communication styles to facilitate successful outcomes within the team and cross-functionally in a matrix structure.
Writing and reporting skills - understands the importance of accuracy, succinct messaging.
An ongoing growth and learning mindset. Adapting and responding to change - ability to work under pressure and in a fast-paced, changing environment.
Innovative and solution-orientated - creating and applying sound judgment and the ability to generate solutions that serve the flow of work and meet deadlines. Curious, goal-oriented, and highly selfmotivated with a passion for driving transformative change. 
Time management - ability to prioritise a high volume of activities simultaneously in an unpredictable environment.

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