Creditors Clerk

JOB SUMMARY:
A global renowned company requires the above to handle the creditors function within the financial department assisting the financial manager.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Minimum requirements for the role:

  • Must have a matric with mathematics and or accounting as a subject ideally but not essential.
  • Diploma or related qualification is preferred but not essential for the role.
  • Must have previous credit controlling experience.
  • Must have basic skill level in MS Excel.
  • Previous experience having worked in a creditors role is essential for the role.
  • The successful candidate must have good communication skills and be able to takes initiative.
  • Previous experience having worked on Syspro or a related ERP System is preferred.
  • Previous experience having worked in a manufacturing or trading / distribution company that imports products is preferred but not essential.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

  • Handling the creditors function within the financial department assisting the Financial Manager.
  • Preparing cash book requisitions for payments.
  • Performing creditors reconciliations.
  • Assisting clients to resolve queries.
  • Compiling quotations, purchase orders, invoices, statements, pods and credit notes.
  • Liaising with numerous suppliers i.e. placing orders on a daily basis, tracking orders and conducting reconciliations on all suppliers.
  • Reconciling accounts based on orders placed.
  • Loading suppliers and supplier payments onto the system.
  • Capturing supplier / creditor invoices as well as quoting customer invoices.
  • Processing of the creditors’ reconciliations.
  • Controlling the general ledger accounts relative to creditor functions.
  • Ensuring invoices are properly authorised in accordance with levels of authority and allocated to the correct supplier and general ledger accounts on a daily basis.
  • Accurately preparing monthly reconciliations of creditors accounts statements against the A/P age analysis.
  • Accurately reconciling G/L and creditors accounts on a monthly basis making sure that accounts are correctly balanced
  • Reconciling supplier accounts.

Salary package, including benefits, is highly negotiable depending on experience gained.