Accounts Payable Controller/ Accountant (Accounts Payable Controller / Accountant)

• Processing of creditors’ invoices
• Creditors reconciliations
• Performing accounting functions including:

• Journals
  VAT Calculations and Reconciliations
  Balance Sheet Reconciliations
  Checking/preparing bank reconciliations daily
  Loading banking transactions
  Audit Assistance – Prepare audit packs and liaise with auditors
  Booking of training
  Safety files

• Processing/creating purchase orders in Pastel

• Sending purchase orders to suppliers and following up on outstanding purchase orders.
• Processing of suppliers’ invoices
• Creditors reconciliations
• Preparing monthly payment lists
• Capturing wages in VIP
• Reporting on wages
• Petty Cash

• Requesting quotations & comparing and negotiating prices from suppliers as per requisitions
• Processing of purchase orders on Syspro
• Sending purchase orders to suppliers and following up on outstanding purchase orders.
• Keeping updated register of suppliers and products
• Processing of creditors’ invoices
• Creditors reconciliations
• Compiling payment runs
• Capturing of payments received from customers
• Creditors’ control account reconciliation

• Processing of creditors’ invoices & Creditors reconciliations
• Compiling payment runs & Capturing of payments received from customers
• Releasing of orders for sales department
• Phoning customers for outstanding payments & Managing credit limits for customers
• Analysing & clearing of general ledger accounts.
• Reviewed sections of the asset register
• Compiling information for foreign travel account register

Qualification:

• Completed BCom Degree (Accounting or Financial Accountant) or studying towards
• Completed or partial completed articles in an audit practice
• Experience: Minimum of 2 years’ experience in the role of auditor or accountant
• SAGE Evolution – will be advantageous
• Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables
• Credit control
• Bookkeeping – cashbook, asset registers and stock management

Knowledges, Skills & Abilities:

• Technically competent
• Self-management / attending to jobs from start to finish taking full responsibility in respect of completion
• Excellent coordination and multitasking skills
• Problem solving and Solution driven skills
• Understand intercompany transactions and the accounting thereof
• Complex control accounts and managing/controlling buyouts

Key Performance Areas Performance Areas:

• Statutory Returns and queries
• General Ledger Reconciliations
• Asset Register and Depreciation
• Handling Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables and Cashbook
• Assist with management accounts
• Stock management

• General Ledger Reconciliations
• Processing of general ledger transactions via journals
• Supervisor of Debtors clerk, Creditors clerk and Cashbook clerk
• Checking and signing-off reconciliations
• Inter-company transactions and confirmations
• Completing worksheets for financial statement purposes
• Completing tax packs and maintaining asset register
• Acted as Mill accountant
• Completing monthly VAT returns & Stats for SA Stats
• Completing monthly local levies returns
• Compiling worksheet for annual budgets & monthly forecasts
• Safety (good housekeeping) audits / Internal documentation audits
• Production statistics

February 2000 – August 2001
General Accounts Clerk

• Debtors & Creditors
• Cashbook
• Inter-company transactions & confirmations
• General Ledger journals & reconciliations

• General secretarial duties & Front desk
• Preparing quotations
• Petty Cash

• Sheltered Employment
• Secretary to selection committee
• Compiling of files to be viewed by committee
• Communicating with Sheltered Employment Factories
• Reception duties
• Booking of appointments with psychologists & psychometric testing sessions
• Filing