Senior Accounts Payable Accountant

  • Dar es Salaam
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Overview:

The overall purpose of the job is to ensure that all invoices, including Tax invoices, are checked, captured and reconciled; reconcile creditors’ accounts; manage bank and forex reports; manage accounts journals and overhead expenses; ensure correct payments and tax laws/rules compliance whilst adhering to all applicable policies, procedures and requirements both company and legislative.

Key performance Functions:

Accounts Payable & Financial Compliance Management

  • Ensure proper Creditor Reconciliations
  • Sending swift and remittances to creditors
  • Following up on updated creditor statements and sorting out creditor queries
  • Following up on Tax invoices where payments were made on Proformas
  • Ensuring tax compliance on various payments such as WHT tax deductions
  • Prepare and ensure correct Bank report and Forex report
  • Saving of creditor recons to the share drive
  • Posting of relevant overhead expenses
  • Posting relevant accruals required by the company
  • Manage and complete the clearing Account reconciliation and Journals
  • Loading of payments on the system
  • Manage invoice registration employees x 2

Communication & customer service

  • Communicate in a clear, concise and professional manner, upholding the company’s reputation at all times, whether written or verbal communication.
  • Adhere to all communication requirements as stipulated by management.
  • All communication received is to be responded to within 15 minutes.

General administration

  • File and archive all documents in accordance with divisional, company and legislative requirements – physical and or electronic.
  • Retrieve filed and archived documents when required.

Follow and uphold Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) policies

  • Assist with the safety of all colleagues, clients, suppliers or any other party in your work area.
  • Ensure that you know and adhere to all SHEQ policies and requirements.

Follow and uphold all Company policies and procedures

  • Ensure that all colleagues, clients, suppliers or any other party in your work area adheres to all SHEQ policies and requirements.
  • Report any breach of SHEQ policy or requirement or incident to the SHEQ officer and your manager
  • Report any recommendations for improving SHEQ policies.
  • Ensure that you know and adhere to all Company policies and procedures.
  • Ensure that all colleagues in your work area adhere to all Company policies and procedures.
  • Report any breach of Company policy or procedure to your manager or the Human Resources manager.

Other

  • Promote excellent customer service;
  • Perform all financial and administrative activities essential to sustaining revenue and client satisfaction;
  • Assist management in identifying growth opportunities.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with clients and suppliers;
  • Promote Just in Time and Zero Defect principles;
  • Negotiate rates and services with suppliers where applicable;
  • Perform any other reasonable task that may be assigned by Management or requested by the client.
  • Carry out colleagues’ duties as requested by Management whilst colleagues are on leave or during peak periods.

Education

  • Degree in Accounting & Finance or related field

Experience

  • Similar experience within an accounting department
    Preferably an international company -minimum medium size with annual turnover $5m

Skills

  • High level of computer literacy – MS Office
  • High numerical accuracy
  • SAP accounting software
  • Basic IFRS and SARS compliance knowledge – debtors
  • Reconciliations
  • Excellent verbal & written communication
  • Excellent analytical skills

Join Steinweg to ensure our services exceed client expectations. Apply now to become part of our dynamic team!

Interested?

Please send your CV to BridgeTz.Recruitment@za.steinweg.com

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