EY Accounts Payable Specialist 

South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg 

585270769

Objectives of this role

• Support the company in optimizing its financial transactions and systems
• Strengthen and grow relationships with vendors through timely payments and being the primary contact for escalations
• Assist in streamlining and improving the accounts payable process
• Exercise integrity and confidentiality in financial reporting
• Comply with applicable regulations

Responsibilities

• Managing the offshore AP team, located in India
• Ownership of and ensuring that the various SOP’s are appropriately updated as needed
• Managing the relationship with Procurement and ensuring vendors are loaded timeously and appropriately
• Review invoices for appropriate documentation and accurate posting
• Review month end vendor recons prior to payment
• Ensuring appropriate SARB approvals are obtained timeously for any applicable foreign payments
• Primary contact for BBBEE related queries on vendor spend
• Being involved in and managing ad-hoc projects in the AP space as needed
• Assist senior financial officers as needed
• In time acting as the AP escalation point for Africa

Skills and qualifications

• Understanding principles of finance and accounting
• Superb time management skills and detail orientation
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of company information

• Strong mathematical skills
• Experience in accounts payable
• Experience with SAP
• Experience with banking tools and interfaces
• Ability to interact at multiple levels within the organization

Supervision Responsibilities

• Self-starter with creative approach to problem solving
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to flex and adapt to working in a changing environment
• Demonstrate an ability to quickly build relationships based on doing the right thing