Foreign Creditors Clerk (Urgent Start)

As the Foreign Creditors Clerk you will be responsible for managing and overseeing financial transactions related to foreign creditors or suppliers.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Process Supplier Invoices and SAD / Customs Assessments for Imported products from Foreign Suppliers.
2. Process Supplier claims (damages, shortages, pricing differences, Customer Rebates and Promotional claims).
3. Prepare and capture Foreign Supplier payments, including providing estimates for cash flow purposes, in line with Trading Terms.
4. Assist with Costing of imported products and maintenance of operating system.
5. Assist with reporting on purchase price variances.
6. Month end Accounting (Reconciliation of Foreign Creditors, reconciliation and clearing of transport / freight suspense accounts, capturing of foreign currency transactions).
7. Month end Accruals.
8. Manage and maintain an efficient paperless system for Stock Received across 5 countries.
9. Assist with budgeting process.

Additional Responsibilities:

1. General accounting functions including manual payments for foreign creditors.
2. Process foreign currency transfers on ERP.
3. Bank reconciliation for Botswana ZAR account.
4. Reconcile, investigate and submit claims for damages, shortages, pricing differences, Customer Rebates and Promotional claims.
5. Reconcile and allocate transport invoices to relevant GL accounts.
6. Ensure that all SAD / Customs assessments are correct and processed in the ERP.
7. Assist with reconciling Duties / Levies and Import VAT to Deferred VAT / Border accounts.
8. Check shipment documents for all SMC entities and ensure that relevant documents are attached.
9. Capture shipments in ERP and prepare claims for stock damages and shortages.
10. Check border documents and ensure that VAT / ATL was calculated correctly.
11. Ensure that year-end files are up to date and assist auditors with information.
12. Prepare and capture all foreign creditor payments and ensure that early settlement discounts have been taken.
13. Review creditors age analysis on a monthly basis and identify problem areas.
14. Ensure the maintenance of all creditors master files and records.
15. Assist with all creditors reconciliation and ensure correctness and timing.
16. Ensure all creditors' payments are on time, with adherence to credit terms of suppliers.
17. Ensure that all month-end accruals and provisions are processed.
18. Any other tasks required that are not listed above and which would be considered to be reasonable in relation to your position in the company, the performance of your responsibilities and / or the best interests of the company.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.