Senior Accounts Payable Accountant

About the Position

Senior Accounts Payable Accountant

• Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Accounts Payable Accountant to join our team in Dar es Salaam. The role involves ensuring the accuracy of all invoices, managing creditor reconciliations, and ensuring compliance with tax laws and regulations.

Responsibilities

Accounts Payable & Financial Compliance Management

• Ensure proper Creditor Reconciliations
• Sending swift and remittances to creditors
• Following up on updated creditor statements and sorting out creditor queries
• Following up on Tax invoices where payments were made on Proformas
• Ensuring tax compliance on various payments such as WHT tax deductions
• Prepare and ensure correct Bank report and Forex report
• Saving of creditor recons to the share drive
• Posting of relevant overhead expenses
• Posting relevant accruals required by the company
• Manage and complete the clearing Account reconciliation and Journals
• Loading of payments on the system
• Manage invoice registration employees x 2

Communication & Customer Service

• Communicate in a clear, concise, and professional manner, upholding the company’s reputation at all times, whether written or verbal communication.
• Adhere to all communication requirements as stipulated by management.
• All communication received is to be responded to within 15 minutes.

General Administration

• File and archive all documents in accordance with divisional, company, and legislative requirements – physical and/or electronic.
• Retrieve filed and archived documents when required.

Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality (SHEQ) Policies

• Assist with the safety of all colleagues, clients, suppliers, or any other party in your work area.
• Ensure that you know and adhere to all SHEQ policies and requirements.

Company Policies and Procedures

• Ensure that all colleagues, clients, suppliers, or any other party in your work area adheres to all SHEQ policies and requirements.
• Report any breach of SHEQ policy or requirement or incident to the SHEQ officer and your manager.
• Report any recommendations for improving SHEQ policies.
• Ensure that you know and adhere to all Company policies and procedures.
• Ensure that all colleagues in your work area adhere to all Company policies and procedures.
• Report any breach of Company policy or procedure to your manager or the Human Resources manager.

Other

• Promote excellent customer service.
• Perform all financial and administrative activities essential to sustaining revenue and client satisfaction.
• Assist management in identifying growth opportunities.
• Establish and maintain relationships with clients and suppliers.
• Promote Just in Time and Zero Defect principles.
• Negotiate rates and services with suppliers where applicable.
• Perform any other reasonable task that may be assigned by Management or requested by the client.
• Carry out colleagues’ duties as requested by Management whilst colleagues are on leave or during peak periods.

Requirements

Education

• Degree in Accounting & Finance or related field

Skills

• Core Skills:
  • High level of computer literacy – MS Office
  • SAP accounting software
  • Reconciliations
  • Basic IFRS and SARS compliance knowledge – debtors
• Secondary Skills:
  • High numerical accuracy
  • Excellent verbal & written communication
  • Excellent analytical skills

We Offer

• Join Steinweg to ensure our services exceed client expectations. Apply now to become part of our dynamic team!

About the Company

Steinweg is committed to providing exceptional services and fostering a collaborative work environment. We value integrity, innovation, and excellence in all our endeavors.

Interested?

Please send your CV to [email protected]