Finance Officer: Accounts Payable at Sappi

Global Business Services is on the lookout for an experienced Finance Officer: Accounts Payable to supervise the invoice payment processes in Accounts Payable ensuring vendors are paid accurately and on time for goods and services supplied to Sappi.   

As a Finance Officer: Accounts Payable, you will be responsible to: 

• Review invoice payment processes weekly to identify discrepancies and re-submit to Creditors Clerks to investigate and resolve
• Track volumes of work daily to determine capacity and gaps and re-allocating and re-distributing tasks to provide adequate capacity in the department. 
• Clear Goods Receipt Invoice Receipt (GRIR) once the necessary checks and corrections relating to unpaid invoices and statements have been made by the Creditors Clerks on GRIR and approved by the Financial Accountant.    
• Review the cash flow forecasts for all foreign payments for Sappi Southern Africa to confirm that all processes have been completed to enable the projected cash flows to pull through and to address potential problems. The confirmed forecasts are submitted to the Financial Manager (Accounts payable) for approval and sign-off
• Compile and scrutinise all reconciliations, raw material statements, including the SES reconciliations and Service Level Agreement schedule, to confirm accuracy and to refer discrepancies to Creditors Clerks for investigation and correction where necessary.  
• Monitor vendors and related accounts payable processes, recommends or improves processes to prevent recurrence of problems and escalates un-resolved issues to relevant departments to review, amend and/or implement
• Assist Business Process Engineer to related system changes
• Conduct performance reviews of Creditors Clerks and provides guidance to improve/enhance performance to meet required standards.  
• Keep Financial Manager abreast of all matters related to Accounts Payable

What are we looking for?

• 3-year Diploma in Accounting while a Degree in Accounting would be considered advantageous
• 3 years experience as a Supervisor and managing people in a large department. 
• 3 years experience in an Accounts Payable Department.
• Advanced MS Office / SAP / FI.