Payment Controller

Responsible for managing and processing payments across multiple currencies, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely execution. Duties include verifying invoices, maintaining daily payment records, monitoring banking transactions.

Main Duties

• Day to day verifications/processing of invoices and payment requests.
• Loading of payments in multiple currencies.
• Performing checks to confirm completeness of payments.
• Maintain records of daily payments
• Ownership of banks and reporting anomalies in banking transactions
• Ensure suppliers are paid on time as per due date.
• Support the Senior Financial Manager and Team Leader to deliver strategic initiatives
• Responsible to ensure accurate financial record keeping and filing of all support, ready for any audits
• Adhere to finance deadlines and reporting requirements
• Continued analysis and review of current and new systems, resolve exceptions caused by system errors
• Adherence to payment process flow/Treasury SOP
• Timely update of bank statements for services team
• Maintenance of confidential information coming through payment system (salaries / bonuses / advances)
• Any adhoc assigned duties

 Skills  

• Intermediate MS Excel skills
• Numerical skills
• High attention to detail (accuracy)
• Ability to deal with complex information and requests
• Confident and enthusiastic self-starter who can take initiative
• Balances team and individual responsibility
• Provides and accepts feedback
• Contributes to building a positive team
• Action orientation and Project management
• Copes well under sustained pressure
• Delivers to deadlines
• Sets and achieves challenging goals and objectives
• Interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Good Time management
• Organisation and administration skills
• Diagnostic, analytical & problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills in English (written & verbal)

Qualifications & Work Experience

• Diploma or degree in relevant field of Banking/Management/Accounting equivalent
• Additional courses in relevant fields will be advantageous
• 2 -3 years proven experience in a similar role
• Previous experience in multinational company and dealing with multiple currencies will be advantageous.
• Previous experience in banking field and Treasury Management
• Proficient in data entry and management
• Experience in payment system – Kyriba/Treasury Express/Bank IB Portals.