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Accounts Payable Administrator

Accounts Payable Administrator

Sappi Southern Africa
Country:  South Africa
City:  Umhlanga
Location:  Global Business Services - Umhlanga
Department:  Finance
Posting date:  28 Oct 2025
Closing date:  11 Nov 2025

We are hiring! 

  

We're on the lookout for an Accounts Payable Administrator to accurately process invoices to pay vendors on time for goods and services supplied to Sappi.   

 

As an Accounts Payable Administrator, you will be responsible to :

  • Verify all invoices received via e-invoice system in terms of SARS requirements 
  • Review all invoices that do not pass through the 3-way match and investigate the reason for non-posting  
  • Follow up on overdue workflows, clarify and rectify the reason for the delay
  • Manage incoming e-mails and telephone calls from vendors regarding queries related to payment processes/invoices
  • Execute and review payment proposals on SAP ensuring that the correct parameters are used 
  • Analyse in depth vendor accounts to identify aged items appearing on the GRIR reports to identify possible items for write back
  • Prepare monthly reconciliations for vendors as per the category requirements - this includes reconciliations required for GRIR clearing and audit requirements (External and Internal) 
  • Perform the operational testing required when any financial system is upgraded/changed
  • Maintain and update the four week rolling cash flow for FEC, CFC and SES and submit to supervisors weekly 
  • Ensuring that Open Credit Memos and Duplicate Tracker Payments are resolved on Celonis timeously
  • Adhoc services include but are not limited to General Accounts and Fixed Assets

 

What are we looking for? 

  • Grade 12 certificate with a recently completed Diploma / Degree in Finance 
  • Minimum 2 years’ experience working in an Accounting environment
  • SAP experience
  • MS Office (advanced Excel skills)

 

What’s in it for you?  

  • An excellent opportunity to work, learn & grow with us. With our culture of learning & development, you can access thousands of online trainings   
  • A multi-cultural & international environment to share and collaborate with colleagues from more than 68 nationalities in 31 locations globally.   
  • A unique opportunity to join a global wood fibre solution company. We are constantly innovating toward a circular economy working to achieve our sustainability goals & reduce our carbon foot print.  

We are hiring! 

  

We're on the lookout for an Accounts Payable Administrator to accurately process invoices to pay vendors on time for goods and services supplied to Sappi.   

 

As an Accounts Payable Administrator, you will be responsible to :

  • Verify all invoices received via e-invoice system in terms of SARS requirements 
  • Review all invoices that do not pass through the 3-way match and investigate the reason for non-posting  
  • Follow up on overdue workflows, clarify and rectify the reason for the delay
  • Manage incoming e-mails and telephone calls from vendors regarding queries related to payment processes/invoices
  • Execute and review payment proposals on SAP ensuring that the correct parameters are used 
  • Analyse in depth vendor accounts to identify aged items appearing on the GRIR reports to identify possible items for write back
  • Prepare monthly reconciliations for vendors as per the category requirements - this includes reconciliations required for GRIR clearing and audit requirements (External and Internal) 
  • Perform the operational testing required when any financial system is upgraded/changed
  • Maintain and update the four week rolling cash flow for FEC, CFC and SES and submit to supervisors weekly 
  • Ensuring that Open Credit Memos and Duplicate Tracker Payments are resolved on Celonis timeously
  • Adhoc services include but are not limited to General Accounts and Fixed Assets

 

What are we looking for? 

  • Grade 12 certificate with a recently completed Diploma / Degree in Finance 
  • Minimum 2 years’ experience working in an Accounting environment
  • SAP experience
  • MS Office (advanced Excel skills)

 

What’s in it for you?  

  • An excellent opportunity to work, learn & grow with us. With our culture of learning & development, you can access thousands of online trainings   
  • A multi-cultural & international environment to share and collaborate with colleagues from more than 68 nationalities in 31 locations globally.   
  • A unique opportunity to join a global wood fibre solution company. We are constantly innovating toward a circular economy working to achieve our sustainability goals & reduce our carbon foot print.  

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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