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Indirect Account Payable Officer at Food Concepts Plc – Apply Now

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

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