Latest Vacancies at Ackermans

Overview

Ackermans has an exciting opportunity for a Clerk: Trade Creditors. This Clerk: Trade Creditors position will involve the verifying and capturing of invoices, statement reconciliations, capturing of journals and completing general ledger reconciliations of our Trade Creditor's accounts and various other financial/ admin duties within the Trade Creditors team function and will be part of a structured Finance team.

We're a fully in-office team. This role is based at our Support Centre in Kuils River, Cape Town.

Key responsibilities:

Trade Creditors payments

• Ensure valid tax invoices are received
• Process & match invoices/credits
• Ensure accurate processing of VAT
• Perform supplier statement analysis
• Perform supplier payment reconciliations
• Ensure suppliers are in receipt of payment remittances

General ledger reconciliations & Reporting

• Process expenses to correct general ledger accounts
• Perform relevant general ledger reconciliations
• Run month end reports
• Perform control account reconciliations
• Assist with clearing relevant unreconciled entries on bank reconciliations (when applicable)
• Process journals as required

Supplier management & Other Administration

• Ensure accurate Vendor Masterdata information
• Maintain good external and internal stakeholder's relationships
• Ensure proper storage of documentation via sharepoint
• Efficiently resolving customer queries
• Support to stores

Qualifications required:

Essential:

• A National Diploma in Accounting or similar

Preferred:

• Relevant Bachelors Degree

Knowledge required:

• Strong administration knowledge and ability
• Good financial administration knowledge of basic principles, procedures and applications
• Knowledge of the creditors process

Experience required:

Essential:

• 2 -3 years’ relevant finance administration experience, including strong reconciliation experience

Preferred:

• Experience within a retail business environment
• Creditors experience

Skills required:

• Computer skills, intermediate to advanced Excel
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team
• Above average numerical ability
• Ability to work under pressure and large volumes of work
• Customer relations

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Job Overview

Ackermans has an exciting opportunity for a Clerk: Queries. This position will be a Fixed-Term Contract ending 31 May 2024).The Clerk: Queries will be responsible to will serve as the single point of contact and be responsible for managing all internal and external stakeholder queries within the accounts payable function and will be part of a structured Finance team.

We're a fully in-office team. This role is based at our Support Centre in Kuils River, Cape Town.

Key responsibilities:

Query Resolution

• Acknowledging receipt of queries & assign to relevant teams.
• Manage relevant Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable & Support Services Queries.
• Managing and responding to vendor queries relating to additional claims, rebates, discounts, outstanding payments, payment confirmations, inventory, store queries enquiries, bank queries, Maersk queries
• Managing query follow-up process and communicating turnaround times and query progress
• Managing the query escalation process

Reporting

• Tracking urgent queries, specifically relating to urgent payment requests
• Weekly / monthly reporting on outstanding queries
• Provide reports on any deviations to the process

Customer Service & Administration

• Maintain good external & internal stakeholder relationships
• Working with stakeholders to continuously seek ways to improve processes
• Efficiently resolving stakeholder queries within agreed turnaround times
• Ensure proper filing of documentation
• Provide support to Accounts Payable & Support Services teams

Qualifications required:

• Essential: Relevant Finance Certificate or Diploma
• Preferred: Bachelors Degree in Finance / Accounting or related field

Experience required:

Essential:

• 1 - 2 years’ relevant accounts payable experience
• Minimum 1 year experience in query resolution

Preferred:

• Retail environment experience
• Experience in using SAP
• Relevant finance administration experience

Knowledge & skills required:

• Knowledge of basic accounting principles, procedures and application
• Knowledge of the Accounts Payable process
• Computer skills
• Problem solving skills
• Strong finance administration ability
• Intermediate to advanced Excel
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team
• Strong numerical ability
• Ability to work under pressure and large volumes of work
• Strong communication skills (Written & Verbal)

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JOB OVERVIEW

By taking on this opportunity, you will play a significant role within the business by acting as the interface between the Business, Pepkor IT and other information technology suppliers, the vehicle through which optimal business processes and underlying system functionality is developed in order to execute business strategy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Assess and define change requests received from users in Ackermans in relation to business processes and systems. Provision of solutions and support for the implementation thereof.
• Effectively manage change requests from business stakeholders
• Translation of business process and systems requirements into specific projects ensuring solutions are commercially acceptable within the strategic framework.
• Working closely with the Supply Chain Business Process Engineers in order for the Pick and Pack solution to work seamlessly with the operational processes and operational layout of the warehouse
• Provision of effective and timeous support to internal users on processes, systems and technology activities.
• User ongoing support
• Provision of detailed documentation of current information, data and solutions
• Supply users with skills & knowledge of process and systems via training sessions and workshops to enhance culture of super users.

JOB RELATED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

KNOWLEDGE required:

A working kn owledge of business process mapping tools, preferably MS Visio

Must be highly proficient in latest versions of MS Office:

• Word at an advanced level
• Excel at an advanced level
• PowerPoint at an advanced level
• Understanding of Business Analysis methodologies, preferably BABOK
• Commercial understanding of the retail systems environment
• Implementation of business solutions and change management.
• Documenting and analysing informational data.
• Co-ordinate & project manage the testing.
• Fill in and d o testing where needed: Website, PIM, Pick & Pack app.

SKILLS required:

• Determine business solutions and assess them for both technical and business compatibility.
• Business and functional requirements elicitation
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Presentation of business processes and system solutions to both software developers and the business
• The ability to;
• Workshop and facilitate JAD sessions.
• Evaluate different business solution options and applying commercial acumen in the decision-making process.
• Be highly proficient in testing methodology.

QUALIFICATIONS AND LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Degree or National Diploma in Supply Chain/Logistics Management, Information Systems, Business analysis or equivalent
• 2-5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst

Advantageous:

• Bachelor’s degree or National Diploma in Information Technology
• Affiliation to a professional institution for Business Analysis (IIBA)
• Affiliation to a professional institution for Project Management
• BABOK methodology

EXPERIENCE:

Essential:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst with at least 2 years’ experience within the retail, Finance and/or consulting environment
• Business Analyst experience: system analysis, & business process development, including the facilitation of workshops and the preparation of documentation including the mapping of integration diagrams. This will require a close working relationship with the process team.
• System support: maintaining an incident management process including resolution management; analysing the nature of incidents; liaising with system developers in order to resolve incidents and provide training and feedback to the business.
• Setup of test scenarios, executing of UAT testing and facilitate the quality assurance of the solution.
• Experience in mapping integration processes between new packages, solutions and internal systems
• Drafting training material & train the users on new systems and functions implemented.
• Provide input to process team in order to compile operational SOP documentation.

Preferred:

• Experience in online commerce and Supply Chain processes.
• Thorough grasp of business fundamentals and strategic priorities & innovation
• Writing business requirements, system requirements and functional specifications according to the BABOK methodology
• Project Management experience in order to manage different roles and responsibilities of internal and external resources contributing to the Supply Chain solution.
• Exposure to successful technology systems implementation
• Exposure to change management
• Online Commerce experience

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Job Overview

We're looking for a passionate and creative Marketeer to manage the Woman portfolio within our Marketing Team! Reporting to the Advertising Manager: Woman & Baby, the successful incumbent will be responsible to execute the promotional calendar from end-to-end according to guidelines, timelines, specifications and within budget on all the relevant Marketing platforms.

We're a fully in-office team, based at our Support Centre in Kuils River, Cape Town.

So, what will you do? 

Advertising Operational Plan

• Formulation of the campaign creative plan based on operational plan (promo grid & seasonal creative) (above and below the line, direct marketing, public relations, digital) for the Women’s standalone portfolio.
• Execution of above and below the line advertising (promotional operational plan)

Marketing process

• Coordinate the marketing process (from promotional grid handover, campaign brief to post campaign analysis (media, shoots, samples etc).

 Reporting and Administration

Compiling, analysis and/or interpretation of the:

• Post campaign analysis
• Campaign administration and all relevant administration (RMS, filing artwork, budget management/update)
• Input into seasonal brand review

 Marketing Strategy focused initiatives/Projects

• Competitions, budgets, engagement initiatives, innovations

What experience and qualification is required?

• A minimum of 3 years’ relevant marketing experience gained in a marketing /  advertising / agency environment.
• A National Diploma / Degree in Marketing Manager / Advertising or related field. 
• Experience within the clothing retail environment is preferred.