Team Leader - Creditors

• Qualification in finance (preferred)
• At least seven years' experience with at least two years at management level
• Experience with accounts payable is absolutely NB
• Legal or professional services experience in essential
• Systems experience with MS Dynamics 365 is preferred

• Coordinate and oversee the shared creditors inbox ensuring invoices are being processed and monitor invoice movement on the control sheet
• Resolve escalated queries from creditors clerks and general queries received from legal services staff including partners
• Scrutinise recons before sign off
• Send signed off recon to banking team for payment upload on the system
• Check general ledger to ensure payments have the correct description and are processed in the correct general ledger
• Follow up with management for payment sign offs
• Manage the supplier database by allocating database uploads to Creditors Clerks, verify uploaded information and approve
• Ensure all required vendor documentation is received including contracts, BBBEE certificate, tax certificate, etc.
• Monitor that new vendors are appropriately signed off by the Procurement Manager
• Conduct BBBEE audits by preparing monthly schedules with firm spend on BBBEE