Accounts Payable Team Lead
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
This role requires excellent operational, financial, collaboration, negotiation and customer relationship skills. The ability to plan, prioritise, monitor, co-ordinate and manage multiple programmes and teams is crucial in the success of this role. Manage all aspects of the cross-border payment end to end and ensure that all local and cross border payments are executed timeously. Mitigate financial, operational, and reputational risk; and avoid risk/interest to the bank by ensuring compliance of documentation according to bank policy, business rules and SARS requirements. To manage, coach, support and lead the team towards achieving departmental targets and objectives focusing on the resolution of all telephonic, e-mailed issues & queries relating to payments and the authorisation thereof. Supervise the resolution process of e-mail, telephone & queries submitted on Coupa (document management system) in respect of payment and payment authorisations. I engaged stakeholders in the change process and collaborated in cost reductions. I solidified supplier relationships to maintain a win-win culture. I review process and controls to increase efficiency and coached willing to learn employees to build a high performing team