Analyst, Accounts Payable at Standard Chartered Bank Kenya

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Supporting Strategy Implementation

Busines

• Resolve queries from country accounts payable teams within 24hrs.
• Hold rapport calls with country payment teams
• Resolve any complaints from stakeholders in respect to my assigned countries.

Processes

• Process invoices for assigned countries (Foreign currency and Local currency) ensuring there are no overdue items in the queues.
• Ensure that all invoices requiring supplier's attention are advised to the supplier within 48 hours.
• Processing of invoices to ensure the right amounts are paid to the suppliers
• Post payroll journals correctly and advise country of trend variances.
• Support the managers where necessary.

People and Talent

• Conduct training and knowledge transfer to my colleagues and country Accounts Payables Unit (APU) staff

Risk Management

• Ensure 100% accuracy in processing.
• Confirm posting and accuracy of posted depreciation entries.
• Create new staff details as per instructions and apply judgement on anything that deviates from the norm.
• Preparing the reconciliation of payment accounts and ensuring no overdue items

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Country APU Teams
• Financial Controllers

Other Responsibilities

• Managing the assigned tasks professionally and efficiently.
• Conduct periodic tests of key controls in accordance with the operational risk policy framework.
• Ensuring compliance of regulations, policies and requirements of the hubbed countries.
• Contributing to the effectiveness of the team by utilising interpersonal skills to work with members effectively and to communicate across teams in Global Support Functions (GFS) in order to ensure smooth operations for the Centre.
• Continually reviewing all assigned processes in order to identify opportunities for quality and process design improvement.
• Ensuring total customer satisfaction by providing quality service, that is error free, submitted in a timely manner and communicated effectively.
• To perform the activities as defined when performing the role of Backup during the absence of Primary responsibility holder of the activity.
• To achieve 100% back-up and leave plan.

Qualifications

• A first degree in commerce or accounting plus
• Professional accounting qualification - CPA(K) or Advanced ACCA
• Any Experience working for a bank is an added advantage

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Effective Communications
• Internal Controls
• Operational Risk
• Accounts Payable (A-P)