Job Functions:1.Manage and control costs to achieve/ exceed budget.
Assist with maintaining relationships with existing and potential suppliers to the Business - e.g., prioritising suppliers payments according to urgency, manage queries and reconciling items accurately and efficiently.
Assist procurement with maintaining correct service provider information e.g., communication on correctness of VAT information.
2.Ensure bank balances are corrected to agreed-upon levels through cash control.
Ensure creditors payments are done timeously and accurately and that all discounts are taken in accordance with SLAs and Rate adjustments.
3.Establish internal controls to deliver efficient processes and systemsMonth end procedures:
Ensure all service provider recons and payments meet month end deadlines.
Creditors Recons:
Review banking details and ensure all new suppliers are loaded on the bank as beneficiaries, follow up on all pending beneficiaries to avoid payment delays.
Ensure payments remittances are sent out as soon s payment has been processed and account related queries are timeously resolved and communicated back to the supplier.
Ensure outstanding items on the creditors recons are minimal and within the accepted parameters.
Ensure creditors department clear creditors recon items timeously (within 60 days) once the clean-up is complete.
Ensure creditors ageing is within accepted parameters (no more than 5% or older than 60 days once the clean-up is complete)
Assist in ensuring all Dreamtec issues are communicated, monitored, and resolved accurately and timeously.
4.Management of Dreamtec and verifications relationship.
Assist in ensuring posting to SP accounts and better usage of the SP portal to make the creditors recon process optimally efficient.
Assist procurement in driving portal usage to reach targets - liaising closely with suppliers to achieve this.
Obtain monthly report from procurement for new suppliers loaded on the portal.
Communicated with debtors and verifications team to ensure additional costs are timeously billed and cases posted.
Put processes in place to identify and communicate inefficiencies/errors/weaknesses in the flow-through from Dreamtec to management.