Finance Team Leader - Trade

Takealot Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online retailer in South Africa is seeking an Accounts Payable Team Leader to oversee vendor payments and team management in Cape Town. The role involves developing controls, enhancing accuracy and efficiency, and fostering supplier relationships. Candidates should have strong accounting backgrounds and leadership experience, with a passion for e-commerce and team dynamics.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years experience in International Accounts Payable or similar position.
• Experience in managing a team is required.

Responsibilities

• Manage all national trade vendor payments end to end.
• Develop and implement departmental controls for scaling AP trade.
• Own the supplier relationship on behalf of Finance.

Skills

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Independent work

Leadership

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification in accounting (BCom Accounting preferred)

Tools

SAGE

Excel

Job description

Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Accounts Payable Team Leader 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.

The position reports to the Accounts Payable Manager

Your responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for all national trade vendor payments end to end
• Develop and implement standardized departmental controls and policies to ensure increased accuracy and efficiency, to scale AP trade
• Manage the supplier onboarding and maintenance process, including continuing development of the process at scale
• Own the Supplier relationship on behalf of Finance to align business process, trading terms and query resolution
• Act as key finance stakeholder in engineering product discussions relating to the Accounts Payable Process, taking responsibility for project completion.
• Work closely with operational teams in developing and implement standardized controls and policies to ensure increased accuracy and improved efficiency on suppliers
• Full ownership of all supporting documentation flow, in line with best practice and relevant legislation
• Build, train, manage, maintain and an effective and independent team, to handle day-to-day responsibilities.
• Work closely with internal and external stake holders, to optimize processes and automate transactional flow
• Reporting of key KPI’s, relating to AP Trade
• Review supplier reconciliations to ensure completeness and accuracy of payments
• Resolving non-routine supplier queries
• Manage supplier account’s age analysis
• Managing weekly and monthly payment cycle
• Assistance with financial month end and year end processes
• Ad-hoc requests from business

Attributes required:

• Continuous improvement- and scaling mindset
• Ability to lead from the front
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work independently
• Problem solving
• Self motivated

Qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in accounting (BCom Accounting preferred)
• 3-4 years experience in International Accounts Payable or similar position for Trade suppliers
• Experience in managing a team
• Advance Excel
• SAGE advantageous

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, its 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 forthright but respectful
• 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 strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
• thinks like an owner of the business.
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so 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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