Senior Accounts Payable Specialist

Senior Accounts Payable Specialist (Hybrid Downtown)

About the Job

The finance professional will be responsible for providing and analyzing data, metrics and insights needed to help the business to make solid decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Daily processing of incoming invoices, bank transactions and credit notes

• Prepare payment proposals according to the internal regulations and within the agreed timeframes

• Daily review of unapproved invoices and follow up for approvals

• GL Coding of incoming invoices consistent with accounting standards

• Follow up on Vendor statements – solicit invoices, determine underlying reasons for missing invoices

• Follow up on Received not invoiced transactions with vendors and incoming goods professionals to determine if product was received and why invoice has not been recorded

• Follow up on Unreceived Open POs to determine if PO needs to be canceled

• Ensure all invoices are entered timely, accurately, following consistent conventions for numbering, references, etc

• Prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and other accounting functions

• Record all disbursement transactions timely and accurately

• Follow up on payments that have not cleared the bank

• Prepare reports and projections based on detailed analysis

• Coordinate with other members of the finance team to review financial information and forecasts.

• Contribute to the elaboration and processing of the balance sheets and financial overviews

• Make proposals for the optimization of the accounting processes with the aim of guaranteeing the efficient operation of the department

• Understand key business unit operating metrics/drivers and measure performance to established metrics

• Clock in and out for every scheduled shift in a timely manner.

Set Yourself Apart: Profile/Experiences

• Bachelor’s Degree Required in Accounting, Finance or related field

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in financial analysis and accounting

• Advanced Excel skills required, including pivot tables, vlookups, macros, etc

• ERP experience required, ideally Microsoft Dynamics AX, Navision, Great Plains, etc

• Ability to work independently in a confident, deliberate and productive manner. Ability to research issues and arrive at logical well-documented analysis and conclusions

• Effective verbal and written communicator with both financial and non-financial individuals