Accounts Payable Analyst South Africa at ManpowerGroup South Africa

Job Summary

The Key Responsibilities Consist of Management of Local Payment and Treasury Processes.

• Ensuring all relevant supporting customs documents are uploaded to ensure payment approval from SARB.
• Ensuring beneficiary bank details are correct, loading beneficiaries on bank site.
• Downloading and sharing of Lynx report on due invoices with business.
• Checking customs documents to ensure SARB compliance.
• Highlighting aged items to business for query resolution.
• Maintaining vendor accuracy on ABSA International Platform (ICM).
• Entering payment transactions on ABSA ICM, and ensuring payments are completed.
• Checking all customs clearing docs to ensure correct docs included for submission of payments. Querying and follow up with clearing agent where docs incomplete. Sourcing of relevant contracts and support to do applications.
• Gathering supporting documentation for manual payments, completing manual form with accurate information, obtaining approval from requesters line manager, and local finance approver, submitting information to Manilla for processing. Subsequent monitoring of payment process to ensure that payment is released promptly and sharing POP with requester.
• Downloading bank statement after weekly payment run, extract transactions relating to foreign payments and action those.
• Providing invoice details on each payment to Manila Cash & Bank team for clearing of paid invoices, providing GL accounts.
• Creating ARIBA PO's for finance team when requested.
• Ensuring supplier invoices are uploaded on AP portal, and posted for payment.
• Provide support to business for Insurance policy renewal and claims process.
• Supporting SG&A manager with providing schedules on monthly spend for courier costs, Fuel and lease cards and mobile phones, indicating cost centers per user. Liaising with suppliers to provide detailed billing reports
  Analyzing Monthly transactions to show splits per CC.
• Completing and submitting relevant documentation to add or remove signatories on ABSA accounts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant area.
• 3+ Years of job experience in different Finance Functions (Treasury experience is highly desirable).
• Experience working with accounting systems
• Strong analytical skill.
• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills are required.
• Proven business partnering skills.