Creditors Manager - - Johannesburg

Key Responsibilities

Lead a team of nine resources responsible for managing creditors;
Identify inefficiencies, risks, and control deficiencies in the Accounts Payable process;
Influence related processes indirectly, including Procurement, Stock, Assets, and IFRS 16;
Collaborate on various projects, such as system enhancements, RPA initiatives, cross-financial projects, and Operations;
Manage stakeholders, including business and external stakeholders;
Analyse supplier and spend trends, ensuring compliance with SLAs and business policies;
Develop and modify workflows, processes, and policies, and upskill resources to mitigate risks and meet business requirements;
Facilitate internal and external audits;
Implement, monitor, and control internal controls and best practices, aligning processes with company goals;
Strategically plan to meet reporting deadlines with the highest accuracy and efficiency;
Manage a creditors book encompassing various types of suppliers (Contractors, Consultants, International service providers, Stock, Rentals and IFRS 16 leases, Security, etc.);
Review all creditors reconciliations and provide guidance on correcting reconciling items;
Actively manage aging buckets;
Review payment reconciliations, payment batches, and cash flow planning to ensure accurate cash outflow projection and payments;
Address escalated supplier queries;
Provide information and reports to senior management;
Prepare monthly statutory computations and submissions;
Reconcile trial balance and general ledger and investigate and resolve reconciling items;
Conduct detailed reviews of accruals, provisions, open purchase orders, and un-invoiced receipts;
Perform monthly cost analysis on management packs to minimise variations and provide detailed reasoning where applicable;
Conduct cost budgeting and cash budgeting tasks.