Accounts Payable I Maitland, Cape Town
Finance and Accounting
Western Cape
Modular Unit Solutions company, based in Maitland, Cape Town is looking for an Accounts Payable to join their team.
The primary purpose of an Accounts Payable Clerk is to review and process invoices, schedule payments, keep financial records organized, and communicate with vendors. This role helps maintain good supplier relationships, avoid late payments, and ensure accurate financial reporting.
Minimum Requirements:
- Relevant Accounting /Bookkeeping or the equivalent thereof
- Minimum of 5 years Accounts Payable experience
- The ability to work under pressure and deal with high volumes of transactions.
- Proficiency in Pastel accounting or any other accounting software
- Processing and maintaining accurate financial records
- Compliance with accounting standards and other regulations
Key Responsibilities:
- Reconcile intercompany payable accounts, identifying and investigating any discrepancies
- Receive, review, verify invoices and payment requests
- Request supplier statements
- Ensure invoices are approved by authorized signatories before they are sent for payment.
- Match invoices with purchase orders and receipts to ensure that the 3-way matching process is applied.
- Determining payment dates based on terms and cash flow and ensuring that suppliers are paid accurately and on time
- Matching payments with invoices to ensure accuracy
- Preparation of accurate monthly creditors reconciliation for management review.
- Supplier vetting and compliance with BBBEE regulations.
- Processing of settlement discount and cashbook payments.
- Generating purchase order number in accordance with the authorization matrix
- Document control of supplier information
- Completion of supplier credit application forms, send to the Manager for review and signature
- Compliance with accounting standards and other regulations
- Negotiate discounts and 30-day accounts where possible
- Support inventory or purchase order processes.
- Collaborate with purchasing or procurement departments
- Match invoices with purchase orders and receipts.
- Maintain accurate and organized records of all accounts payable transactions and ensure that they are captured in the correct period.
- Assist with monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing processes.
- Maintain and provide management with an accurate Age analysis that has comments to unresolved account queries.
- Maintain good supplier relationships
If you meet the requirements of this role, please send your CV to nicky@proappoint.co.za

