Team Leader: Accounts Payable (CPT)

The role

Santam Corporate Services has a position available for a Team Leader in the Accounts Payable team. This is a permanent position based at our Santam Head Office in Bellville, Tygervalley.

What will you do?

The Accounts Payable Team Leader is responsible for leading the Accounts Payable team and ensuring efficient, accurate, and compliant payment processes. The role supports invoice payment automation, financial control, manual supplier payments, reconciliation, and reporting.

This role requires strong leadership, sound financial judgement, process improvement capability, and a focus on risk management and operational excellence

What will make you successful in this role?

• Lead, supervise, and support the Accounts Payable team to deliver accurate and timely work.

• Manage Claims invoice processing, exception handling, supplier payments, and adherence to internal controls.
• Review supplier statement reconciliations and general ledger reconciliations. Resolve and report on any issues.
• Maintain the Accounts Payable risk register and implement controls to reduce financial and compliance risks.
• Drive invoice automation and support system improvements with relevant stakeholders. Review controls in the invoice automation process, monitor automated controls through detailed reporting and effect improvements where necessary.
• Prepare Accounts Payable reports, cash flow information, age analyses, and performance metrics.
• Identify and implement process improvements to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Support audit requirements, reporting deadlines, and compliance with company policies, VAT and other relevant legislation.
• Engage with internal stakeholders on end-to-end processes and provide support to the Accounts Payable Manager when required.

Qualification and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or Auditing.

• At least 5 years’ experience in an Accounts Payable environment with at least 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Previous short-term insurance experience is advantageous, especially in claims-related payments.
• Experience with invoice automation systems such as Kofax or Core Capture.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and data analysis.
• Experience using ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or JD Edwards.

Core competencies

• Leadership and team supervision and motivation
• Ability to lead staff, manage workloads, and meet deadlines
• Risk awareness and financial
• Process improvement and automation focus
• Communication and stakeholder management
• Deadline management and attention to detail
• Integrity, professionalism, and ethical conduct
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving
• Planning, organizing, and collaboration

Who are we

We are a leading general insurer in South Africa with a market share less than 24%. We have 108 years of standing and we provide a diverse range of general insurance products and services to individuals, commercial and corporate markets. We operate in South Africa, Namibia and selected emerging markets through a network of intermediaries, direct and partnership channels. Our portfolio of insurance products includes car, property, liability, engineering, agricultural insurance, guest house insurance; tourism, leisure and entertainment and reinsurance insurance. Our agriculture insurance products, include crop insurance, asset insurance, and weather insurance. In addition, the company provides claim, brokerage, and SOS services to its customers. In South Africa and Namibia, We serve more than 1 million policyholders who range from individuals to commercial and specialist business owners and institutions. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Santam was founded in 1918 and listed on the JSE in 1964 under the insurance (non-life) sector. The group has secondary listings on the Namibian Stock Exchange and A2X Markets Exchange. Santam is a subsidiary of South African financial services group Sanlam, which holds 62.3% of Santam’s shares.