Job Purpose

The Cane Payment Administrator is responsible to provide various admin and accounting related to cane payment process.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure that grower debt to KSC is captured properly for recovering promptly in terms of fertiliser sales, advances to growers, etc
• Proper capturing of all the necessary grower banking details for verification and release
• Attend to grower queries regarding payments, where required
• Liaise with Factory team involved on cane lab in reconciling and payment run process required in cane lab system e.g. weekly reconciliation etc
• Liaise with internal stakeholders with respect to grower or payment related matters
• Liaise with stakeholders with respect to programme enhancements
• Ensure stakeholders understand and comply with policy and procedure requirements
• Manage and maintain grower master data in both SAP and Cane Lab
• Print and distribute remittance advice for all payments to growers
• Check debit balances each month and resolve to clear as many as possible.
• Analyse all outstanding claims monthly and investigate reason for delays in finalizing of claims
• Prepare Payments, Instructions, Deductions and Sessions and submit to Cane payment specialist for review
• Ensures cane grower are paid accurately and on time
• Reconciles the cane payment interface summary report to the General Ledger journal
• Makes active instructions inactive for resigned growers prior to the archiving process
• Investigate and submit for clearance of new debit balances where possible
• Assist the cane payment specialist to provide accurate and meaningful information to internal and external auditors
• Provide technical support to the Cane payments systems

Job Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or equivalent qualification
• 1-2 year working experience in Finance environment
• Good computer literacy skills especially MS. Excel
• Holder of CPA certification will be an added Advantage

Terms of Service: The successful candidate will be engaged on a Fixed Term Contract.

• Ensure that grower debt to KSC is captured properly for recovering promptly in terms of fertiliser sales, advances to growers, etc
• Proper capturing of all the necessary grower banking details for verification and release
• Attend to grower queries regarding payments, where required
• Liaise with Factory team involved on cane lab in reconciling and payment run process required in cane lab system e.g. weekly reconciliation etc
• Liaise with internal stakeholders with respect to grower or payment related matters
• Liaise with stakeholders with respect to programme enhancements
• Ensure stakeholders understand and comply with policy and procedure requirements
• Manage and maintain grower master data in both SAP and Cane Lab
• Print and distribute remittance advice for all payments to growers
• Check debit balances each month and resolve to clear as many as possible.
• Analyse all outstanding claims monthly and investigate reason for delays in finalizing of claims
• Prepare Payments, Instructions, Deductions and Sessions and submit to Cane payment specialist for review
• Ensures cane grower are paid accurately and on time
• Reconciles the cane payment interface summary report to the General Ledger journal
• Makes active instructions inactive for resigned growers prior to the archiving process
• Investigate and submit for clearance of new debit balances where possible
• Assist the cane payment specialist to provide accurate and meaningful information to internal and external auditors
• Provide technical support to the Cane payments systems

• Good computer literacy skills especially MS. Excel

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or equivalent qualification
• Holder of CPA certification will be an added Advantage