Accounts Payable - Contractor

About the role

The role involves managing Accounts Payable, ensuring invoices are legitimate and accurate, providing customer service, and maintaining controls. Key responsibilities include invoice ingestion, high-volume processing, compliance, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Invoice Ingestion: Scan and validate invoices, resolve errors, and escalate issues within SLAs.
• High-Volume Processing: Process large volumes of invoices, ensuring discrepancies are resolved promptly.
• Invoice Compliance: Review and validate invoices, address tax discrepancies, and coordinate with vendors for revisions.
• Government Compliance: Support e-invoicing adoption and ensure adherence to local tax and regulatory requirements.
• Withholding Tax Management: Work with Indirect Tax Teams on identifying and coding invoices subject to withholding tax.
• Classification Accuracy: Apply correct coding for general ledger accounts and cost centers, meeting specific business unit requirements.
• Account Reconciliation: Reconcile vendor accounts, analyze discrepancies, and resolve issues with vendors and business users.
• Purchase Ledger Management: Maintain and update the Purchase Ledger in line with departmental SLAs and policies.
• Month End Closing: Support activities to meet internal SLAs, ensuring all invoices are reviewed and actioned prior to closing.
• Automation & Efficiency: Embrace technology to enhance automation, optimize workflows, and improve the Source-to-Pay process.
• Query Resolution: Handle vendor and internal inquiries through the internal ticketing system, addressing payment issues, reversals, and approvals.
• Workflow Optimization: Streamline processes for invoice processing, purchase order matching, and approval workflows.
• Professional Collaboration: Maintain professionalism in interactions with Accounts Payable, Source-to-Pay, and Technology teams, and other stakeholders.
• Team Engagement: Participate in team meetings and training, applying Accounts Payable concepts to daily tasks.
• Issue Analysis: Perform root-cause analysis and deliver solutions to stakeholders, vendors, and management.
• Ad Hoc Projects: Meet deadlines for accounting tasks, projects, and month/year-end activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting, finance, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Previous work experience with Accounts Payable, minimum 3 years.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Thorough attention to detail, performing all work with high levels of accuracy.
• Experience with an ERP (SAP preferred).
• Knowledge of basic Financial and Accounting terminology.

Qualifications

• Fluency in a second language.
• Experience with EDI or other automated invoice ingestion/processing channels (i.e. Ariba, ERS, PO Plan).
• Collaboration on enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Experience of working in a Procure to Pay department.
• Knowledge of Agile Scrum framework.

Skills

• Invoice processing knowledge.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage workload.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic, open-plan, team environment.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary range of $30 - $40 USD per hour, along with a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Merit increases
• Incentive compensation (exempt roles only)
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• 401(k) +match
• Life insurance
• Variety of wellness programs

Note: We do not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns. For more information, please refer to our benefits page.