Accounts Payable Senior Accountant

• 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
• Good 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