Takealot.com , a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Accounts Payable Clerk - Trade to join our Finance Team in Cape Town.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative and hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related Total Remuneration Package, which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored, as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
This role reports to the allocated Finance Team Leader.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Match supplier invoices with goods received notes
- Capture supplier invoices (non-EDI vendors)
- Manage and rectify invoice exceptions on AS2
- Request and review month end statements from suppliers accurately and timely
- Assist with monthly assigned account reconciliations and submit for payment
- Assist with suppliers being paid at correct price and for correct quantities received
- Assist with management of supplier age analysis and payment terms
- Send remittance advice to suppliers
- Resolve payment/account queries with suppliers
- Communicate intake variances with warehouse/retail staff members
- Follow up with suppliers on credit notes for returns and other discounts
- Assist with maintaining a clean set of Accounts Payable reconciliations
- Ensure proper filing system is maintained
- Assist with ad-hoc tasks as required by accounting team
Attributes required:
- Execute the workflow according to set priorities and deadlines
- Organizing and prioritizing of tasks
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Must have excellent communication skills and be fluent in English
- Ability to work independently but also be a team player
- Must be computer literate in MS Excel packages
Qualifications and Experience:
- Minimum B.COM or equivalent degree
- 2-3 years experience in Accounts Payable / Finance environment
- Proficiency Microsoft Excel (must be able to do Pivot tables, vlookups, etc.)
The Environment:
- takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:
- is respectful but forthright
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strives to be the BEST
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and always looks for solutions
- is business SMART, able to think about problems from a business perspective
- is curious and challenges the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- thinks like an owner of the business
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING
If you meet the above criteria and are an Extraordinary Mind , come and join us!
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
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