Accounts Payable Manager

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Overview The Accounts Payable Manager role at Fidelity Services Group Pty Ltd is responsible for the overall management and oversight of the Accounts Payable function. This includes ensuring accurate and timely supplier payments according to contractual terms, effective vendor account management, supplier reconciliations, payment processing, and resolving outstanding balances in SAP. The position also involves leading the Accounts Payable team, ensuring compliance with Procure-to-Pay (P2P) policies, strengthening financial controls, maintaining effective supplier relationships, and ensuring the integrity and accuracy of Accounts Payable records and reporting. What you will do * Oversee the management and reconciliation of the Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt (GR/IR) clearing account, ensuring outstanding items are investigated and kept to a minimum. * Manage supplier reconciliations, ensuring supplier statements are obtained timeously and reconciled against SAP vendor line-item activity reports. * Monitor and manage Accounts Payable ageing, ensuring items outstanding for 90 and 120 days are investigated and resolved or supported by acceptable explanations. * Oversee the investigation and resolution of debit balances reflected in Accounts Payable ageing reports, ensuring outstanding balances are appropriately explained and approved by management. * Ensure supplier invoices are processed accurately and paid within agreed contractual payment terms. * Manage supplier relationships and proactively address payment-related issues to minimise disputes and prevent the suspension of vendor accounts or services. * Oversee the resolution of outstanding invoices, supplier statement discrepancies, and internal business queries. * Drive effective collaboration with internal business units to ensure the timely and accurate resolution of Accounts Payable queries. * Ensure compliance with all applicable Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes, financial policies, procedures, and internal controls. * Review payment files (DME) generated in SAP, ensuring accuracy and completeness before submission to Cashbook. * Ensure payment documentation, reconciliations, and supporting records are maintained and filed in accordance with organisational requirements. * Oversee the distribution and monitoring of Open Purchase Order (PO) reports, ensuring aged and outstanding purchase orders are followed up and closed in SAP. * Lead, manage, and support the Accounts Payable team, ensuring effective allocation of responsibilities, performance management, accountability, and adherence to deadlines. * Monitor operational performance and implement improvements to strengthen efficiency, accuracy, and turnaround times within the Accounts Payable function. * Provide management with regular updates on Accounts Payable ageing, outstanding balances, payment processing, supplier risks, and unresolved queries. * Coordinate responses to internal and external audit queries relating to Accounts Payable, ensuring supporting documentation is accurate and readily available. * Identify operational risks and implement corrective actions to strengthen financial governance and mitigate exposure arising from overdue supplier payments or unreconciled accounts. Requirements (from the original advert) * Grade 12/Matric * Relevant qualification in Accounting, Finance, Financial Management, or a related field. * Significant experience in Accounts Payable management, supplier reconciliations, and payment operations. * Proven experience in managing a team within a finance or Accounts Payable environment. * Strong working knowledge of SAP and financial ERP systems. * Sound understanding of Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes, financial controls, and supplier account management. * Experience managing Accounts Payable ageing, GR/IR clearing, payment files, and supplier reconciliations. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, reporting, and financial administration skills. * Ability to utilise AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot or similar platforms, to improve productivity, streamline processes, analyse information and enhance the quality of written communication and reporting. * Knowledge of how AI can be applied to document preparation, data analysis, report writing, research and process improvement. * Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and organisational skills. * High levels of integrity, accuracy, accountability, and attention to detail. Who should apply This role is suitable for a proven leader with significant experience in Accounts Payable management and team leadership within a finance environment. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial administration skills, coupled with a sound understanding of P2P processes, financial controls, and SAP/ERP systems. They should demonstrate high levels of integrity, accuracy, accountability, attention to detail, and excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities. The candidate must be proactive in driving success, structuring tasks, creating innovation, and showing resilience, and should be adept at dealing with internal and external stakeholders. A key requirement is the ability and knowledge to effectively utilise AI tools for productivity, process streamlining, data analysis, and enhancing written communication and reporting. Flexibility and a willingness to adjust to change are also important. Deadline 27th October, 2026 Reference Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/accounts-payable-manager-fidelity-services-group Source: myjobmag

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