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EY Accounts Payable Specialist 
South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg 
585270769

07.07.2024

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