Accounts Payable Analyst

Job description

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:

Unilever South Africa Proprietary Limited operates in the FMCG market in South Africa, and its main business operations are within the home care, personal care and foods sectors. The operations include the manufacture and sale of a wide variety of products, specifically home care and personal care products, ice- creams, edible oils and fats, tea products, savoury products and dressings.
The Accounts Payable Analyst is responsible for ensuring that vendors get paid on time and in full and managing the accountabilities and responsibilities listed below.
· Driving payment on time to vendors KPI
· Enforcing adherence to process
· Training of business in new tools and process
· Vendor reconciliations
· Balance sheet accountability for accruals
· Supporting business through time of critical change

JOB SUMMARY

· Duplicate Invoice monitoring and put in action plans to reduce
· WIP Report - Top 10 offenders to be identified and contacted to resolve root cause
· POT (Payment on Time) improvement - action and resolve root cause
· POC (Purchase Order Compliance) improvement - "No Pay No Pay" policy is adhered to
· FPY (First Pass Yield) improvement - IBM can process invoices with no query on invoices
· LIR (Late Invoice Receipt) - impacting POT - keep pressure on Procurement to move Supplier to Invoice Receipt date.
· Recon Tool - On request from AP TL, FM, Controller and AP Clerk statements from suppliers to be run through the recon tool.
· BSC (Business Support Centre) - help desk at Head Office for P2P users
· ERS/Invoice Consolidation
· Aged Creditors – Monitoring and Maintaining aged creditors
· GRIR – Clearing of GRIR
· VQP (Vendor Query Portal) – work with stakeholders to land project
· Easy GR

KEY REQUIREMENTS

· Bachelors Degree in Finance essential
· Minimum of 2 years experience in core accounting jobs is required
· Experience of variance analysis and reconciliations
· Intermediate excel required
· Working knowledge of SAP