Creditors Accountant at Helderberg Personnel

• My client is a well established Fruit Exporter based in Stellenbosch. They are seeking to employ a Creditors Accountant to join their team.
• The successful candidate will have a Diploma in Management Accounting or equivalent with 3 year’s creditors processing in freight forwarding industry - ESSENTIAL.

Education Required

• Diploma in Management Accounting or equivalent
• In-house and/or external training in freight forwarding processes, their associated costs
• Advanced Excel/spreadsheet skills – lookups’ import mapping

Skills Required

• Ability to work accurately with figures
• Good eye for detail and ability to handle complexity of costs per client, service provider, activity, market. Etc.
• Basic cost accounting skills
• Full understanding of contracted rates and terms with all service providers.

Experience required

• 3 year’s creditors processing in freight forwarding industry

Key Performance Area:

Creditors invoice processing:

• Set up Edi mappings per service provider/cost type.
• Receive and verify invoices for correctness as per agreed rates and that the service was actually received. Handling disputed invoices.
• Code invoices as per Cost Accounting code structure/rules.
• Register batches for processing.
• Input of invoices into QX system.
• Print/save cost capture reports
• Hand of to Finance team

Cost Control and margin analysis:

• Monitor that document Controllers correctly complete jobcard/Invoice copies details in QX. Report omissions/errors to line manager and responsible team member.
• Monitor completion of incident logs for all extra-ordinary/additional costs incurred and that accountability entity is correctly indicated. Report omissions/errors to line manager and responsible team member.
• Monitor and report weekly on revenues/margins vs budget
• Margin allocations finalized by latest 10 weeks after ATD
• Review accruals 15 weeks after ATD

Reporting

• Weekly report of incidents logged during prior week.
• Monthly margin report – shipment 10 weeks and older.
• Monthly accrual report – shipments 3 months and older

Projects

• Process automation
• Reporting dashboards such as BPI
• Analysis of revenues, margins losses to identify areas for improvement

Closing Date: 2026-02-20