Ap: Manager – Accounts Payable

Job Description

An exciting opportunity awaits a finance expert at Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC. As the AP Manager, you'll guide the team, implement processes, and maintain robust internal controls. We want a leader with strong analytical skills and the ability to work independently.

Responsibilities

Role purpose: Ensure accuracy and completeness of accounts payables transactions in the financial statements, reconciliation and processing payments for the suppliers and maintenance of the creditors’ ledger in accordance with Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC policies and International Accounting Standards

• Prepare and share payment projections with the treasury team to facilitate cashflow planning.
• Ensure timely payment to suppliers as per contract payment terms with nil reconciling items.
• Ensuring the team's work is accurate and invoices are approved for payment using the correct process.
• Managing the employee expense claims process.
• Maintain constant engagement with the partners in assigned accounts and resolve or escalate any issues arising within defined SLAs.
• Ensure correct application of taxes on invoices as applicable.
• End to end and timely management of supplier issues.
• Reconciliation of supplier statements and accounts payable ledger.
• Ensure availability and matching of all relevant documents (LPO, invoice, Goods Received Note/ Engineer’s certificate, Service delivery confirmation, Contract, Quality Control report) before processing documents for payments
• Validate all invoices within agreed SLA’s, Receipt of all goods/services is confirmed
• Before payments are made, Nil double payment of invoices. Nil invoice without PO.
• Ensure accurate and complete schedules are submitted on time for reporting and auditing. Implement and resolve all matters raised from the audit as per the set dates.
• Leads the month-end closing process & ensure accurate and timely reporting of costs as per reporting timetable.
• Training and supervising accounts payable to team members
• Ongoing improvements to the accounts payable process
• Prepares, analyses and summarizes financial data to support business operations.
• Ensures the integrity of processes and systems to record and authorize transactions in compliance with Safaricom accounting policies and regulations.

Core competencies and knowledge

• Keen knowledge of international financial reporting standards.
• Demonstratable strong numeric and analytical skills.
• Good understanding of local applicable taxes.
• Excellent stakeholders’ management skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to quickly identify risks and capture accounting implications.
• Hands-on experience working with accounting systems e.g., Oracle, Hyperion, SAP, etc.
• Proficiency in data analytics and visualization tools.
• Reporting
• Delivers timely and accurate reports to satisfy statutory and business requirements.
• Identifies key performance and variances and provides recommendations.
• Tax
• Understands tax requirements and able to process documents to comply with tax.

Qualifications

• Business related bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.
• Qualified Accountant with CPA /ACCA/CIMA/ACA is an added advantage.
• 5 – years post qualification experience in finance with specialization in financial accounting.
• Working experience in internal and external financial audits
• Ability to quickly identify risks and capture accounting implications.
• Hands-on experience working with accounting Systems e.g. Sage, Oracle, SUN system, Hyperion etc.
• Strong analytical skills and keen attention to detail.

Self-driven, results oriented, proactive and have an ability to work without supervision