Accounts Payable Manager - Sealed Air South Africa
Experience: Credit Control/ Creditors/
Account Payable Manager/ Project Management
Systems: BPCS, SAP NBP production, Magic,
Fourth Shift, SAP production, SAP
BW
Companies: Parmalat SA
Saint Gobain/ Donn Construction
Skynet, Styria Stainless
Sealed Air Pty Ltd/ Diversey
4. Current employment
Company: Sealed Air Pty Ltd – Diversey
Position held: Accounts Payable manager
Responsibilities: Manage accounting functions including
maintenance of general ledgers - accounts
payable and accounts receivable. Ensuring
the smooth timeliness of payments to local
and foreign vendors including intercompany
accounts. Checking and monitoring of all
accruals captured monthly. Develop and
implement maintaining of control systems,
procedures and policies. Managing and
mentoring staff. Attend progress review
meetings held monthly. Provide accounting
assistance to project managers and
operating staff. Managing of all expense
accounts, cell phones, fuel, vehicles, cash
and credit cards, including them monitoring
of spending. Reconciling of GL accounts
including Bank GL accounts. Maintain of
Master Vendor data to keep all vendor
details updated and correct. Implementation
and roll out of new expense system Concur.
Monthly/quarterly report on spend of
expense accounts including GL and cost
centre/division splits. Assisting of month
end closing and posting to balance
intercompany accounts. Ensuring that
company policies are adhered to as to the
spending, expenses on T&E. Manage one
time vendor spend. Checking and Signing
off on reconciliations and payments for
releasing. Authorizing and checking of
international payments. Assisting and
resolving audit findings internal and external
audits. Analysing and clean-up of GRIR
report – weekly GRIR report runs and
monthly KPI to gauge progress of GRIR.
Preparing of monthly age analysis.
5. Contact person: Mandla Maseko
Contact: 011 871 9000
Date: August 2014 – Current
Company: Sealed Air Pty Ltd – Diversey
Position held: Senior Credit Controller
Responsibilities: Dealing with key accounts, Simba, SAB,
Parmalat SA, Parmalat Botswana, Danon,
Clover, Dairy bell and Fedics. Phoning for
payments, Reconciling accounts, following
up on queries, visiting customers. Month
end Forecast collection forecast. Releasing
and approving of orders. Building and
maintaining customer and internal customer
relationships.
Contact person: Amanda Heydenrych
Contact: 011 871 9000
Date: November 2012 – July 2014
Reason for leaving: Promotion within Sealed Air
Employment History
Company: Parmalat SA
Position held: Admin Supervisor
Contact person: Martin Herbst
Contact: 011 466 1808
Email: martin.herbsts@parmalat.co.za
Date: November 1998 – August 2005
Responsibilities: Reception, Accounts payable –
processing of documents, checking
6. and verifying for payment. Receiving
Reconciliation, Supervising five staff
Checking verifying recons v/s return
notes. Maintaining key accounts
returns and queries – Checkers,
hyper, Pick n Pay and Spar
Reason for leaving: Branch relocated – Olifantsfontein
Company: Saint Gobain Construction/ Donn
Position held: Senior Credit Controller
Responsibilities: Opening of new accounts, running
credit checks, controlling and
updating of customer master data.
Increase of credit limits. Releasing
and authorising of orders. Sending
letters – discount disallowed,
demand for payment.
Liaising with Sales – building and
maintaining customer relationship.
Monthly Lead team meetings to
resolve overdue accounts and
actions to be taken. Dealing with key
accounts, Edcon, Abbeycon, Builders
Warehouse, Spars. Doing monthly
KPI’s for department. Running of age
analysis, sending invoices and
statements. Monthly closing reports.
Contact Person: Norena Sattleger
Contact: 011 345 5300
Date: September 2005 – January 2012
Email: norena.sattlegger@saint_gobain.com
Reason for Leaving: Head office reallocated to Samrand
Accounts department was
centralised.
7. Company: Styria Stainless
Position held: PA to Directors
Duties: Liaising with customers – Lonman
mines, Omnia group. Planning
Directors Travels cross border.
Keeping employee files up to date.
General office duties
Contact: 011 824 1322
Date: February 2012 – August 2012
Reason for leaving: Contract ended – Temporary position
Company: Skynet
Position held: Senior Credit Controller
Duties: Phoning for money, reconciling key
account SAB. Sending statements
and invoices.
Contact Person: Credit Manager
Contact: 011 759 4000
Date: August 2012 – October 2012
Reason for leaving: Temporary position – seeking
permanent employment.