- A good team player Impact and Scope:
- Ability to work in a Shared Service Centre environment for multiple companies from various countries
- Ability to cope with month end reporting, tight deadlines
- Ability to pro-actively solve problems
- Ability to influence stakeholders
- Ability to create and maintain a good working environment within the finance team, independently manage actions and to resolve disputes Key Internal and External Relationships:
- Reporting to the AP Supervisor and interacting with Head of Accounts Payable SSC, as needed
- Local Procurement teams for resolving blocked invoices
- Financial Controllers for the approval of payment proposals and bank payments Contact with vendors to resolve queries and validate changes to sensitive financial information
- SAP AP and Esker Super User
- Processing Esker teaching requests
- Maintenance of Esker for automation of invoice processing
- Management of workload across the team to ensure all activities are undertaken on a timely basis
- Leadership of Daily Accountability Meetings with team
- Undertaking SES Green Belt Projects to improve process management
- Receipt and processing of vendor invoices
- Obtaining of approval of Non-Purchase Order invoices in accordance with the Delegated Authorities
- Matching of invoice details to Purchase Order details
- Positive verification of vendor bank details
- Investigating supplier invoice queries
- Preparation of SAP Payment Proposals and upload to banking platform
- Review of aged receipts report (GRIR)
for missing invoices
- Supporting Internal and External Audits
- Liaising with Purchasing teams for resolution of issues
- Clearance of AP related bank account reconciling items
- Reconciliation of vendor statements to SAP
- Review of Aged Accounts Payable and providing commentary and actions
- Monthly reconciliation of Intercompany Balances and accrual of missing invoices
- Monitoring of the Concur SAP Cockpit and resolution of issues
- Other AP activities as required
Qualifications
- 5-9 years of experience of Accounts Payable in a complex, international business
- Bachelor s degree in finance or accounting
- Positive working knowledge of SAP ECC6 is a must
- Good working knowledge of the international banking systems, bank portals and foreign currencies
- Good working knowledge of VAT, GST and other similar indirect schemes
- Experience of OCR technology for reading vendor invoices
- Experience of working within a Shared Service Centre
- Experience of leading or implementing change to improve efficiency of the Accounts Payable Process
- Fast learner with the ability to pick up new systems and processes
- Great attention to detail
- Good communicator with fluency in business English (written and spoken) Knowledge of another foreign language is an advantage
- Excellent MS Office skills, particularly Excel (v-lookup, pivot tables) for data analysis
- Numerate with accounting knowledge Well organized with strong task management skills