Key Responsibilities

Payment Processing

• Coordinate workflow among the treasure team, other departments, and banks.
• Review all payment instructions and SAP posting to ensure completeness and accuracy
• Approve SAP Payment Run for batch payments
• Send payment instructions to banks and follow-up to ensure payments are executed on time
• Process interbank and intercompany transfers to ensure efficient utilization of funds across the group.
• Monitor daily closing – ensure all vendor payment & petty cash transactions a posted in SAP each day
• Process cocoa/cashew funding request. Ensure funding gets to district account following day maximum
• Review and approve MoMo payment requests before cash transfer

Treasury Reporting

• Daily closing reporting (SAP Posting)
• Daily payment status and incidence reporting (swift-network & bank platform).
• Other treasury and group reporting

Banking Relations & Correspondence

• Request for bank statement and swift advice when required
• Send reports, schedules, and provide any relevant information requested by bank
• Provide documentation for account opening/closing, online setup and updating mandate
• Forex indicative rate enquire

Other Duties

• Advice internal customers and vendors on status or payment and provide swift advice when required.
• Maintain and update register of banking signatories
• Maintain bank master data and ensure SAP master data is updated
• Ensure all documentations (bank advice, bank statement, PV) are properly filled and stored in shared-folder for easy reference and retrieval
• Follow-up with inventory staff to ensure district account a posted and reconciled in SAP
• Follow-up with operations team to provide supporting documents for customer deposits
• When new banks added – set up of MT940, update the system, internet banking set up etc.

Qualifications, Skills and Behaviours

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance.
• +6 years’ experience in treasury management for any trading, manufacturing company or bank.
• Be a Chartered Accountant OR Partly qualified in ACCA/ICA/CIMA
• Must have experience in SAP Payment Run, Swift Payment and MT940 Statements
• Advanced analytical skills
• Advanced spreadsheet and modelling skills
• Ability to work independently
• Good project-, time management skills and the ability to work towards tight deadlines
• Excellent collaboration, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to think outside the box and have an innovative approach