Position: Pay to Purchase Accountant
Location: Nairobi
Responsibilities
- Responsible
for all accounts payable processes for Unilever Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya
third party accounts.
- Ensuring
all key performance metrics are achieved monthly including payment on time
(POT) 95%, Purchase Order compliance (POC) 98% and first pass yield (FPY)
80% within East Africa as per the Global Unilever policy.
- Management
of Key accounts especially revenue authorities and third-party vendors and
customers.
- Reconciling
vendor statements, and maintaining liaison with suppliers to ensure
payments are made promptly and accounts stay current.
- Provide
data for working capital forecasting requirements for third party debtors
and creditors.
- Preparing
and processing electronic transfers and payments through use of SAP, DCIW,
Coupa and Online banking apps such as Citi Direct.
- Review
and posting of overheads costs such as Tanzania Revenue Authority,
International travel costs (AMEX) and reclassification for month end
reporting to the correct general ledger and cost centers.
- Partnering
with Brand Marketing Investment (BMI) Accountant to review Key BMI
suppliers and internal orders to resolve payment issues.
- Initiating
tax urgent requests (URA,TRA,KRA) and one-time vendor manual payments on
share point tool while guiding all users within the business to raise
urgent, advance and one-time vendor payments.
- Conducting
business support centre (BSC) trainings aimed at resolving all payment
issues and DCIW+ invoice management tool workflow for all users within the
business at specified locations helping to reduce outstanding workflow.
- Providing
information and offering support to different audit requirements which
have included KPMG external audit, PWC and Unilever internal audit,
internal financial controls assessment and Unilever global corporate audit
for PTP function.
- Ensuring
third party net position is within tolerance risk levels and working
capital requirements by offsetting both customer and vendor balances and
sharing with the local finance leadership team.
- Flagging
and advising on resolution of third party customers long outstanding debts
to ensure appropriate provisions.
- Regularly
communicate with shared service teams IBM and operating centers (OC) to
ensure PTP service level agreements (SLAs) are met month on month.
- Check
and review on shared dashboard metrics, reports for DCIW and KPIs such as
vendor blocked items, vendor open debits and goods receipts not invoiced
(GRNI) are achieved in accordance to the Global Financial Controls
Framework (GFCF).
- Training
and monitoring of travel and expenses Concur system to improve controls
and efficiency on personal expenses incurred for business purposes while
ensuring timely payments.
- Partnering
with HR and Intercompany Accountant to ensure timely clearing of bank open
items before 20 th of every month ahead of the Global cut-off date.
- Ensuring
that all new employees vendor accounts are created in SAP by sharing the
people soft forms and vendor creation templates with the employee, MDM
team and obtaining all necessary approvals.
Qualifications
- University
Graduate in Finance or a business-related field
- Professional
qualifications CPA/ACCA
- Must
have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a P2P role within a manufacturing
company
- Self-drive
and agile
How to Apply