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TCS Assistant Accountant

TCS Assistant Accountant

Sappi Southern Africa
Country:  South Africa
City:  Pietermaritzburg
Location:  Forestry - Victoria Country Club Estate
Department:  Finance
Posting date:  May 15, 2025
Closing date:  29 May 2025

We are hiring!

 

At Sappi, we are a leading global provider with a reputation for delivering high-quality sustainable Woodfibre products and solutions for the global markets. We lead through our values centred around integrity, courage, making smart decisions which we execute with speed. We are seeking unique people who believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. 

 

We’re on the lookout for an experienced TCS Assistant Accountant to ensure all Timber Control System (TCS) aspects regarding Khulisa, Small Market Sales and Mills are effectively managed.


As a TCS Assistant Accountant you will be responsible for: 

 

  • Ensure silviculture and timber payments are duly authorised and limits of authority adhered too by the relevant Project Managers ensuring compliance with policy.
  • Verify payments weekly to ensure the smooth, efficient functioning of the payment process making sure the correct payment parameters are adhered too.
  • Monitor Loan recoveries weekly by ensuring recoveries are made from timber deliveries this will enable reduction in the loan account balances. 
  • Create Vendor Master accounts timeously for new growers and contractors in SAP and TCS to enable source activations and processing of payments.
  • Ensure loan recoveries are made from timber deliveries to reduce amounts owing to Sappi by checking if a supplier does not have loan balance before payment is made.
  • Upload customer loan statements to Forcelink for easy access by growers to check balances owing at any period.
  • Ensure interest on Resources loan accounts are calculated monthly & annually to ensure the statements reflects correct amounts. 
  • Control fertiliser and chemical provision account reconciliations by reviewing the SAP account balances and ensuring all purchases are timeously processed to the loan accounts by processing monthly journals. 
  • Manage all TCS payments by recording all payments sent to SSC in a register to ensure payments are not missed or duplicated.
  • Ensure TCS contractual and ad-hoc payments are sent to shared services timeously and payment confirmation is received to avoid non-payment. 
  • Ensure source activations received from operational staff are accurately and timeously activated in TCS to avoid any delays in label printing for timber deliveries. 
  • Ensure all sales are recorded in TCS by collating information received from external sources to ensure real time information and compliance to credit policy. 
  • Plan and facilitate Khulisa Forester workshops quarterly to enable knowledge sharing happens between the departments and to use these sessions to conduct continued training on the different systems and procedures.

 

What are we looking for?

 

  • Grade 12.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or related.  
  • Minimum of 3 years relevant experience. 
  • TCS & SAP experience would be advantageous. 
  • Proven advanced excel skills. 

 

What’s in it for you? 

 

  • Opportunity to work within a global organisation that continues to thrive in a rapidly changing world even after 80 years of existence.
  • Learning and development programmes to fast-track your career within Sappi.
  • Opportunities to travel (dependent on upon the role).
  • Market leading leave benefits.
  • Employee wellbeing benefits.
     

We are hiring!

 

At Sappi, we are a leading global provider with a reputation for delivering high-quality sustainable Woodfibre products and solutions for the global markets. We lead through our values centred around integrity, courage, making smart decisions which we execute with speed. We are seeking unique people who believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. 

 

We’re on the lookout for an experienced TCS Assistant Accountant to ensure all Timber Control System (TCS) aspects regarding Khulisa, Small Market Sales and Mills are effectively managed.


As a TCS Assistant Accountant you will be responsible for: 

 

  • Ensure silviculture and timber payments are duly authorised and limits of authority adhered too by the relevant Project Managers ensuring compliance with policy.
  • Verify payments weekly to ensure the smooth, efficient functioning of the payment process making sure the correct payment parameters are adhered too.
  • Monitor Loan recoveries weekly by ensuring recoveries are made from timber deliveries this will enable reduction in the loan account balances. 
  • Create Vendor Master accounts timeously for new growers and contractors in SAP and TCS to enable source activations and processing of payments.
  • Ensure loan recoveries are made from timber deliveries to reduce amounts owing to Sappi by checking if a supplier does not have loan balance before payment is made.
  • Upload customer loan statements to Forcelink for easy access by growers to check balances owing at any period.
  • Ensure interest on Resources loan accounts are calculated monthly & annually to ensure the statements reflects correct amounts. 
  • Control fertiliser and chemical provision account reconciliations by reviewing the SAP account balances and ensuring all purchases are timeously processed to the loan accounts by processing monthly journals. 
  • Manage all TCS payments by recording all payments sent to SSC in a register to ensure payments are not missed or duplicated.
  • Ensure TCS contractual and ad-hoc payments are sent to shared services timeously and payment confirmation is received to avoid non-payment. 
  • Ensure source activations received from operational staff are accurately and timeously activated in TCS to avoid any delays in label printing for timber deliveries. 
  • Ensure all sales are recorded in TCS by collating information received from external sources to ensure real time information and compliance to credit policy. 
  • Plan and facilitate Khulisa Forester workshops quarterly to enable knowledge sharing happens between the departments and to use these sessions to conduct continued training on the different systems and procedures.

 

What are we looking for?

 

  • Grade 12.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or related.  
  • Minimum of 3 years relevant experience. 
  • TCS & SAP experience would be advantageous. 
  • Proven advanced excel skills. 

 

What’s in it for you? 

 

  • Opportunity to work within a global organisation that continues to thrive in a rapidly changing world even after 80 years of existence.
  • Learning and development programmes to fast-track your career within Sappi.
  • Opportunities to travel (dependent on upon the role).
  • Market leading leave benefits.
  • Employee wellbeing benefits.
     

Sappi is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. At Sappi, we encourage and support vaccination.

Sappi is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. At Sappi, we encourage and support vaccination.

ABOUT SAPPI

Sappi is a leading global provider of everyday materials made from woodfibre-based renewable resources. As a diversified, innovative and trusted leader focused on sustainable processes and products, we are building a more circular economy by making what we should, not just what we can.

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