Indirect Account Payable Officer
Job Summary
- To process all invoices received for payment and for undertaking the payment of all creditors in an accurate, efficient and timely manner.
Core Responsibilities and Key Result Areas
Financial Transactions
- Process accounts and incoming invoices in compliance with financial policies and procedures
- Perform day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting and recording accounts payable data
- Prepare bills for Franchise Royalty Invoices , Franchise Marketing invoices and all sundry invoice requests
- Apply payments from franchises to their GL and ensure monthly reconciliation of franchise receivables.
- Book all cash advance requests and cash advance retirements.
- Reconcile the payable GLs to the ageing reports and other relevant schedule
- Verify discrepancies and resolve suppliers’ billing issues
- Facilitate payment of vendor invoices by sorting and transmitting due invoices for the payment team.
- Prepare weekly cash advance reports
- Prepare weekly outstanding franchise invoices report
- Prepare weekly creditors ageing report
Bookkeeping and Reporting
- Generate financial reports detailing accounts payable and receivable status
- Post transactions to the Financial Reporting System
- Initiate journal records for Franchise payments
- Generate weekly report of due unretired cash advances
Key Performance Indicators
- Timeliness of Franchise invoicing
- Timeliness of posting payment request dockets
- Accuracy of weekly reports (vendors’ ageing report, cash advance reports and Franchise receivable invoices)
- Number of invoices processes per day
- Percentage of invoice exceptions per audit journals
- Maintenance of good relationship with suppliers
Knowledge Requirements
- Knowledge of Basic Bookkeeping and accounting payable principles
- Knowledge of managing accounting figures and financial records
- Demonstrates data entry skills with a knack for numbers
- Knowledge of accounting software
Job Specifications
Educational Requirements:
- A good first degree in Accounting or Finance
Professional Requirements:
- Membership of ICAN, ACCA, or any other related professional degree is an added advantage
Experience Requirements:
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in a similar role is required
Decision Expectations:
- Facilitate payment of invoices due
- Generate financial statements and reports detailing accounts payable status
- Ensure timely entry of invoices for payment
- Support other accounting functions
Working Conditions:
- obholder typically work 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, although some roles may involve weekend or evening work.
- This role is largely officebased, and requires the job holder to strongly pay attention to detail. Like other accounting positions, it involves a lot of papers and documents. Job role holder needs to have a well-organized system to match the right documents to the right files and payments. Additionally, prioritizing payments based on due
- dates, amounts and the relationship with the payee is important.
Contacts and Purpose of Contact
Internal Contacts (most frequent contacts):
- Executive Management
- Senior Management
- Middle Management
- Peers.
External Contacts (most frequent contacts):
- Service Providers/ Vendors
- External and Regulatory Auditors
- Franchise.
Purpose of Contact:
- Exchange or provide information
- Obtain, clarify, and discuss information
- Present, discuss information and problems
- Collaborate, negotiate and present ideas
- Deal with, influence or motivate subordinates
- Promote, justify or settle highly sensitive matters.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Food Concepts Plc on career2.successfactors.eu to apply
