Accounts Payable Accountant

Purpose of Job

To enable and facilitate purchasing and accounting operations and communications and conduct clerical tasks in order to support accurate and timeous reporting activities.

Key Accountabilities

• Support and implement the review of follow ups and queries within accounts payable control accounts;  
• Follow ups conducted within agreed time and support the achievement of above baseline people survey results;  
• Conduct reconciliations of high quality with follow-up notes on outstanding items older than 30 days; 
• Schedule of measures as requested by Snr Principle in order to effectively track productivity results;  
• Conduct investigates and resolve queries on supplier invoices to ensure timely payment thereof;  
• Evaluate discrepancies investigated and resolved;  
• Conduct payments reconciled against vendor statement for key vendors;  
• Execute defined basic financial transactional activities;  
• Record and log all queries on the appropriate system and provide input into the regular and accurate reports on reporting metrics, KPIs and other agreed goals as requested by the Snr Manager Accounts Payable;  
• Execute processing of payments and payments terms per supplier agreements or on resolution of queries;  
• Timeous and accurate payments of creditors and complete accurate supporting document to support payment process;
• Timeous and accurate completion of Key Vendor Reconciliations;  
• Ensure the high quality key vendor reconciliation with proper descriptions and follow-up actions noted and documented;  
• Accurate tracking schedule of items as required by standard measuring process and long outstanding items are investigated and reported to assist in resolving the queries;
• Ensure adherence to safety standards;  
• Comply to Sasol safety process and requirement ensuring that regular safety inspections do not find safety contraventions.

Formal Education

Working Experience

Required Personal and Professional Skills