Senior Accounts Clerk

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                and keep the period inside. We need to ensure we don't lose any text. Let's extract sections. Original text: Purpose of the Job: Shoprite Group seeks a Senior Accounts Clerk in Cape Town, Western Cape, to manage end-to-end supplier accounts and payment processes with precision. The ideal candidate will utilise advanced skills in accounts payable, creditor reconciliations, and payment processing within SAP and Microsoft Office 365, particularly Excel, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance. This senior role demands expertise in invoice capture, supplier statement reconciliation, EFT transactions, and online banking operations, complemented by strong organisational abilities and risk management awareness. You will maintain impeccable supplier relationships through professional communication and timely query resolution, supporting continuous process improvements and adherence to audit and governance standards. Join a dynamic finance team dedicated to operational excellence and financial integrity in a leading retail environment. Job Objectives: Supplier Accounts Administration Capture and process supplier invoices, debits, credits, and related transactions accurately and timeously. Determine the status of invoices and supplier statements, identifying and resolving account discrepancies. Maintain accurate supplier account records to support the payment process. Assist with supplier banking detail verification and system maintenance activities. Payment Processing & Control Execute daily payment runs and process payment batches in accordance with approved procedures. Import payment files into online banking platforms and maintain payment records and backups. Monitor payment transactions and escalate system or processing issues to relevant stakeholders. Support the implementation of controls that ensure payment accuracy and compliance. Reconciliation & Financial Accuracy Perform reconciliations between processed invoices and supplier payments. Investigate and resolve payment variances, unmatched transactions, and account discrepancies. Ensure creditor balances are accurate, complete, and supported by relevant documentation. Contribute to the integrity of creditor reporting through accurate reconciliation practices. Supplier & Stakeholder Support Provide professional support to suppliers regarding payments, statements, account balances, and related queries. Respond to supplier and internal stakeholder enquiries via telephone and email. Assist with the distribution of payment confirmations, invoices, statements, and related reports. Foster positive working relationships through responsive and service-oriented support. Risk, Compliance & Record Management Adhere to financial, audit, and governance requirements within the creditor payment process. Maintain accurate filing, record-keeping, and archiving practices to support audit readiness. Follow established procedures and controls to mitigate payment and reconciliation risks. Ensure confidentiality and appropriate handling of financial information. Operational Excellence Deliver daily, weekly, and monthly processing activities within agreed timelines and service standards. Prioritise workload effectively to manage high volumes of transactions and queries. Contribute to process efficiency and continuous improvement initiatives within the creditors function. Perform additional administrative and operational support activities as required. Qualifications: Diploma in Accounting or related field (essential). Experience: +2 years of relevant experience as a creditors clerk, in finance, administration, or a similar role (essential). Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office 365, with a strong emphasis on Excel skills (essential). Familiarity with creditors documents such as statements, invoices, remittances, and EFTs (essential). Experience with accounting packages such as SAP (essential). Additional exposure and understanding of: Procedures and risks related to payment processes. Basic reconciliation principles. Accounting, debtors, and creditors knowledge. Internet banking operations. Understanding of corporate and retail-oriented environments (preferred). Knowledge and Skills: Administrative Support Skills: Proficient in controlling and processing departmental data and documentation, with the ability to use relevant office systems and maintain organized files and records. Self-Motivated and Driven: Demonstrates strong integrity and accountability for actions and mistakes. Interpersonal Skills: Friendly demeanor with the ability to build trusting relationships with suppliers and stakeholders. Teamwork and Partnership: Strong team player with excellent collaboration skills. Numeracy Skills: Comfortable working with numbers and conducting reconciliations. Planning and Organizational Skills: Capable of managing multiple tasks efficiently while paying attention to detail and understanding the broader context. Time Management: Ability to prioritize and manage a high volume of simultaneous activities effectively. Attention to Detail: Skilled at spotting errors in personal and others’ work. Comunication Skills: Effective and clear communicator, with discretion in sharing information with various stakeholders, including problem reporting to management. Writing and Reporting Skills: Understands the importance of accuracy and concise messaging. Adaptability: Able to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced, changing environment. Creditors Knowledge: Committed to ongoing growth and a learning mindset in creditors management. Note there is a typo "Comunication". We must preserve. Now we need to output HTML. We'll wrap each section header in

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                          • . We must preserve all original content word-for-word. So we need to split the content into list items. How to split? For Job Objectives, the content is a series of sentences separated by spaces. Each sentence ends with a period. We can split by period followed by space (or just period). But we must ensure we keep the period inside the
                          • . Also need to keep any colon headings like "Supplier Accounts Administration" as part of the sentence? Actually the first sentence: "Supplier Accounts Administration Capture and process supplier invoices, debits, credits, and related transactions accurately and timeously." There's no period after "Administration". It seems the heading is attached to the sentence without a period. So splitting by period will give us "Supplier Accounts Administration Capture and process supplier invoices, debits, credits, and related transactions accurately and timeously" (no period). We need to keep the period at end? Actually there is no period after timeously? Let's check: The text: "Supplier Accounts Administration Capture and process supplier invoices, debits, credits, and related transactions accurately and timeously." There is a period after timeously? Yes there is a period after timeously. So the sentence ends with a period. So the segment before the period is "Supplier Accounts Administration Capture and process supplier invoices, debits, credits, and related transactions accurately and timeously". That's fine. Similarly next sentence: "Determine the status of invoices and supplier statements, identifying and resolving account discrepancies." ends with period. Thus we can split by ". " (period space) and add back the period. Edge cases: Some sentences have internal abbreviations like "EFTs" with period? Not. "etc." not present. So safe. For Experience: lines end with period as well. Some have colon like "Additional exposure and understanding of:" then list items after colon? Actually the text: "Additional exposure and understanding of: Procedures and risks related to payment processes. Basic reconciliation principles. Accounting, debtors, and creditors knowledge. Internet banking operations. Understanding of corporate and retail-oriented environments (preferred)." So there is a colon after "of:" then each item ends with period. The first item after colon is "Procedures and risks related to payment processes." So we need to keep the colon? The sentence "Additional exposure and understanding of:" ends with colon, no period. Should we treat that as a separate list item? It ends with colon, not period. If we split by ". " we would get "Additional exposure and understanding of: Procedures and risks related to payment processes" as one item (missing period after processes). Actually the text: "Additional exposure and understanding of: Procedures and risks related to payment processes. Basic reconciliation principles. Accounting, debtors, and creditors knowledge. Internet banking operations. Understanding of corporate and retail-oriented environments (preferred)." So after colon, there is a space then "Procedures and risks related to payment processes." So splitting by ". " yields: - "Additional exposure and understanding of: Procedures and risks related to payment processes" - "Basic reconciliation principles" - "Accounting, debtors, and creditors knowledge" - "Internet banking operations" - "Understanding of corporate and retail-oriented environments (preferred)" (no trailing period because end of string). We'll need to add period at end for each
                          • except maybe the last if missing. But we must preserve original content; we cannot add a period if not present. The original last sentence does have a period? Let's check: The original ends with "(preferred)." Yes there is a period after preferred. So the last sentence ends with period. So after splitting, the last piece will be "Understanding of corporate and retail-oriented environments (preferred)" (without period) because we removed the period. We'll need to add it back. So we can reconstruct by adding a period at end of each
                          • . That would add a period that was originally there (since we removed it). That's preserving content because we are putting it back. However we must be careful not to add extra periods where there were none originally. But we are adding exactly the period that we removed during split. So it's fine. Similarly for Knowledge and Skills: each item ends with period. There are headings like "Administrative Support Skills: Proficient in controlling and processing departmental data and documentation, with the ability to use relevant office systems and maintain organized files and records." So there is a colon after Skills, then sentence ends with period. So splitting by ". " will give us "Administrative Support Skills: Proficient in controlling and processing departmental data and documentation, with the ability to use relevant office systems and maintain organized files and records". Then we add period. Also note there is a typo "Comunication Skills:" with missing 'm'. We'll preserve. Now we need to output HTML. We'll produce:

                            Purpose of the Job:

                            Shoprite Group seeks a Senior Accounts Clerk in Cape Town, Western Cape, to manage end-to-end supplier accounts and payment processes with precision. The ideal candidate will utilise advanced skills in accounts payable, creditor reconciliations, and payment processing within SAP and Microsoft Office 365, particularly Excel, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance. This senior role demands expertise in invoice capture, supplier statement reconciliation, EFT transactions, and online banking operations, complemented by strong organisational abilities and risk management awareness. You will maintain impeccable supplier relationships through professional communication and timely query resolution, supporting continuous process improvements and adherence to audit and governance standards. Join a dynamic finance team dedicated to operational excellence and financial integrity in a leading retail environment.

                            Job Objectives:

                            • Supplier Accounts Administration Capture and process supplier invoices, debits, credits, and related transactions accurately and timeously.
                            • Determine the status of invoices and supplier statements, identifying and resolving account discrepancies.
                            • Maintain accurate supplier account records to support the payment process.
                            • Assist with supplier banking detail verification and system maintenance activities.
                            • Payment Processing & Control Execute daily payment runs and process payment batches in accordance with approved procedures.
                            • Import payment files into online banking platforms and maintain payment records and backups.
                            • Monitor payment transactions and escalate system or processing issues to relevant stakeholders.
                            • Support the implementation of controls that ensure payment accuracy and compliance.
                            • Reconciliation & Financial Accuracy Perform reconciliations between processed invoices and supplier payments.
                            • Investigate and resolve payment variances, unmatched transactions, and account discrepancies.
                            • Ensure creditor balances are accurate, complete, and supported by relevant documentation.
                            • Contribute to the integrity of creditor reporting through accurate reconciliation practices.
                            • Supplier & Stakeholder Support Provide professional support to suppliers regarding payments, statements, account balances, and related queries.
                            • Respond to supplier and internal stakeholder enquiries via telephone and email.
                            • Assist with the distribution of payment confirmations, invoices, statements, and related reports.
                            • Foster positive working relationships through responsive and service-oriented support.
                            • Risk, Compliance & Record Management Adhere to financial, audit, and governance requirements within the creditor payment process.
                            • Maintain accurate filing, record-keeping, and archiving practices to support audit readiness.
                            • Follow established procedures and controls to mitigate payment and reconciliation risks.
                            • Ensure confidentiality and appropriate handling of financial information.
                            • Operational Excellence Deliver daily, weekly, and monthly processing activities within agreed timelines and service standards.
                            • Prioritise workload effectively to manage high volumes of transactions and queries.
                            • Contribute to process efficiency and continuous improvement initiatives within the creditors function.
                            • Perform additional administrative and operational support activities as required.

                            Qualifications:

                            • Diploma in Accounting or related field (essential).

                            Experience:

                            • +2 years of relevant experience as a creditors clerk, in finance, administration, or a similar role (essential).
                            • Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office 365, with a strong emphasis on Excel skills (essential).
                            • Familiarity with creditors documents such as statements, invoices, remittances, and EFTs (essential).
                            • Experience with accounting packages such as SAP (essential).
                            • Additional exposure and understanding of: Procedures and risks related to payment processes.
                            • Basic reconciliation principles.
                            • Accounting, debtors, and creditors knowledge.
                            • Internet banking operations.
                            • Understanding of corporate and retail-oriented environments (preferred).

                            Knowledge and Skills:

                            • Administrative Support Skills: Proficient in controlling and processing departmental data and documentation, with the ability to use relevant office systems and maintain organized files and records.
                            • Self-Motivated and Driven: Demonstrates strong integrity and accountability for actions and mistakes.
                            • Interpersonal Skills: Friendly demeanor with the ability to build trusting relationships with suppliers and stakeholders.
                            • Teamwork and Partnership: Strong team player with excellent collaboration skills.
                            • Numeracy Skills: Comfortable working with numbers and conducting reconciliations.
                            • Planning and Organizational Skills: Capable of managing multiple tasks efficiently while paying attention to detail and understanding the broader context.
                            • Time Management: Ability to prioritize and manage a high volume of simultaneous activities effectively.
                            • Attention to Detail: Skilled at spotting errors in personal and others’ work.
                            • Comunication Skills: Effective and clear communicator, with discretion in sharing information with various stakeholders, including problem reporting to management.
                            • Writing and Reporting Skills: Understands the importance of accuracy and concise messaging.
                            • Adaptability: Able to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced, changing environment.
                            • Creditors Knowledge: Committed to ongoing growth and a learning mindset in creditors management.