Junior Accounts Payable Accountant: Job Grade 8: SLS: Finance: Services: Bellville

What will you do?

• This position is responsible for the processing of supplier invoices and payments.  This includes responsibility for accurate recording of real estate invoices in the lease management module, and credit card processing.  Furthermore, the role is responsible for ensuring that supplier and business queries are resolved timeously.
• This position also provides support to the AP Accountant with statistical analysis of the AP function. 

What will make you successful in this role?

The key performance areas of this role and tasks include the following:

Invoice capturing and processing

• Ensure all required monthly processing is completed within the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)
• Capture and process vendor invoices within the SAP solution
• Approve variable cost elements entered on the Lease Management module for monthly payment to Real Estate vendors.

Reporting / Scorecard

• Prepare, analyse and present monthly statistics on AP activities
• Develop meaningful reports to drive efficiency and continuous improvement
• Prepare Manual Control Procedures (MCP) reports for approval by the AP Accountant or AP Manager on a monthly basis.
• Reconciliation of Down Payments.

Credit card Allocations 

• Prepare, analyse and reconcile Credit card statements. 
• Ensure that credit card transactions are uploaded onto the system monthly. 
• Liaise with business for documentary proof and then journalize foreign spend on credit card transactions. 
• Reconciliation of the credit cardecon account.

Payment run 

• Prepare and analyse invoices for inclusion in the payment proposal. 
• Creat down payments. 
• Scheduling of payment run. 
• Clearing of open items on outbound bank account. 

Budgets & Forecasts

• Support business with the upload of budget and/or forecast templates.
• Attend to business queries on budget/forecast discrepancies.

Service Management

• Monitoring of incoming requests.
• Recording and tracking service requests.
• Dealing with complex queries and responding timeously to business.
• Ad-hoc queries as assigned by management.

Relationship

• Work collaboratively within Accounts Payable to ensure suppliers are paid on time
• Work collaboratively with colleagues & Finance Systems & Processes team to propose, test and sign-off enhancements & assist with
• incident management
• Work collaboratively with customers and other Business Units to resolve queries
• This role may include other ad hoc responsibilities as required, in alignment with departmental needs and organisational priorities

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Accounting or Finance or relevant field from a recognised institution
• 2-3 years solid understanding/experience of accounting principles and regulations

Knowledge and Skills

• 1-2 years functional knowledge in Accounts Payable and Procurement Systems / ERP experience
• Must have good interpersonal skills
• Must be quick to understand Sanlam operations as well as the technology used

Personal Attributes

• Demonstrate ability to manage different levels of complexities in a timely manner
• Must be accurate
• Must be action oriented and have the ability to drive results
• Must be customer focused 
• Must have the drive and confidence to cultivate innovation 
• Should demonstrate resilience

Core Competencies

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Turnaround time

The closing date is 18 March 2026.

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. 

The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. 

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