Temporary Creditors Clerk

Location: Sandton

Position: Temporary Creditors Clerk

Contract: Fixed-term, 4 months

Start Date: November 2026

Experience: Minimum 5 years’ relevant creditors experience, preferably within the construction industry

Accounting System: EJM experience advantageous, but not a prerequisite

Purpose of the Role We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Creditors Clerk to join the finance team on a temporary four-month contract.
The successful candidate must have strong experience in construction creditors, supplier accounts and reconciliations and should be sufficiently experienced to take responsibility for the creditors function with minimal supervision.

Key Responsibilities Based on the companies current Creditors Clerk responsibilities, the candidate will be responsible for:

• Collecting, checking and sorting delivery notes.
• Matching delivery notes to supplier invoices.
• Capturing supplier invoices onto the accounting system against the relevant delivery notes.
• Performing supplier statement and creditors reconciliations
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• Identifying and following up on outstanding invoices, delivery notes and supporting documentation.
• Preparing supplier payments and processing creditors payments.
• Preparing internet banking payments for creditors.
• Posting creditors payments to the accounting system.
• Reviewing the creditors age analysis and reconciling it to the trial balance
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• Reconciling the accrual account at month-end
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• Maintaining accurate creditors documentation and filing.
• Processing and maintaining subcontractor labour invoices and supporting documentation.
• Preparing and processing subcontractor payments
  , including monthly subcontractor payments.
• Assisting with journals, resource accounts and cost allocations where required.
• Ensuring creditors records and supporting documentation are complete, accurate and available for audit purposes.
• Working accurately to meet strict payment and month-end deadlines.

Essential Candidate Requirements The agency should prioritise candidates with:

• Minimum 5 years’ hands-on creditors experience.
• Strong construction industry creditors experience
  , including exposure to construction suppliers and subcontractors.
• Proven experience completing supplier statement reconciliations and creditors reconciliations
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• Experience processing high-accuracy supplier invoices, payments and allocations.
• Good understanding of creditors age analysis, trial balance reconciliations and month-end processes
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• Experience dealing with missing invoices, delivery notes, discrepancies and outstanding reconciling items.
• Strong numerical ability and excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and resolve creditors queries effectively.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to work to payment and month-end deadlines.
• Good communication skills when dealing with suppliers, subcontractors and internal teams.

The need for good problem-solving, planning, accuracy, meeting deadlines and working without constant supervision is key.

Systems

• Experience on EJM would be advantageous but is not essential
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• Candidates with solid experience on other construction or accounting systems may be considered, provided they are able to learn EJM quickly.