Junior Accounts Payable Accountant: Grade 8: SLS: Finance: Services: Bellville

Position: Junior Accounts Payable Accountant: Job Grade 8: SLS: Finance: Services: Bellville
Location: Bellville

Who are we?

Sanlam Life and Savings (SLS) is focused on serving our retail and corporate clients in South Africa and further developing our strategic advantages in the South African market. Sanlam Life and Savings consists of the following business units Retail Mass, Corporate, Risk and Savings, Glacier and various business enabling functions. The Sanlam Life and Savings Office provides strategic direction, coordination and support to the four clusters, as well as performing governance oversight that includes assurance provided by second line of defense functions in SLS, to enable us to meet our business objectives.

Finance Services is responsible for delivering the following services to Sanlam businesses that make use of SAP S/4 Hana and related finance systems:

* The execution of shared financial transactions through Finance Shared Services

* Drive operational excellence and efficiency through finance process and technology optimisation

* Delivering an efficient financial control and compliance environment for SAP S/4 Hana and related finance systems

* Delivering on the consolidated financial reporting requirements for SLS

What will you do?

* This position is responsible for the processing of supplier invoices and payments. This includes responsibility for accurate recording of real estate invoices in the lease management module, and credit card processing. Furthermore, the role is responsible for ensuring that supplier and business queries are resolved timeously.

* This position also provides support to the AP Accountant with statistical analysis of the AP function.

What will make you successful in this role?

The key performance areas of this role and tasks include the following:

Invoice capturing and processing

* Ensure all required monthly processing is completed within the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA's)

* Capture and process vendor invoices within the SAP solution

* Approve variable cost elements entered on the Lease Management module for monthly payment to Real Estate vendors.

Reporting / Scorecard

* Prepare, analyse and present monthly statistics on AP activities

* Develop meaningful reports to drive efficiency and continuous improvement

* Prepare Manual Control Procedures (MCP) reports for approval by the AP Accountant or AP Manager on a monthly basis.

* Reconciliation of Down Payments.

Credit card Allocations

* Prepare, analyse and reconcile Credit card statements.

* Ensure that credit card transactions are uploaded onto the system monthly.

* Liaise with business for documentary proof and then journalize foreign spend on credit card transactions.

* Reconciliation of the credit cardecon account.

Payment run

* Prepare and analyse invoices for inclusion in the payment proposal.

* Creat down payments.

* Scheduling of payment run.

* Clearing of open items on outbound bank account.

Budgets & Forecasts

* Support business with the upload of budget and/or forecast templates.

* Attend to business queries on budget/forecast discrepancies.

Service Management

* Monitoring of incoming requests.

* Recording and tracking service requests.

* Dealing with complex queries and responding timeously to business.

* Ad-hoc queries as assigned by management.

Relationship

* Work collaboratively within Accounts Payable to ensure suppliers are paid on time

* Work collaboratively with colleagues & Finance Systems & Processes team to propose, test and sign-off enhancements & assist with

* incident management

* Work collaboratively with customers and other Business Units to resolve queries

* This role may include other ad hoc responsibilities as required, in alignment with departmental needs and organisational priorities

Qualification and Experience

* Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Accounting or Finance or relevant field from a recognised institution

* 2-3 years solid understanding/experience of accounting principles and regulations

Knowledge and Skills

* 1-2 years functional knowledge in Accounts Payable and Procurement Systems / ERP experience

* Must have good interpersonal skills

* Must be quick to understand Sanlam operations as well as the technology used

Personal Attributes

* Demonstrate ability to manage different levels of complexities in a…