Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
Accounts Payable Senior Duties & Responsibilities
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Accounts Payable Senior Qualifications
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Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
- Generate reporting from AP module
- Participate in daily interface with all company personnel including upper management
- Maintain and improve AP and T&E processing cycle times and P-Card maintenance timing
- Daily productivity reports and KPI’s (invoices reconciled, invoices paid)
- Monthly DPO calculations by category to identify trends
- Weekly cash payment forecasting
- Weekly RBNI (Inventory Received but not Invoiced) analysis, aging reports analysis
- Daily early discounts reports
- Weekly financial forecasting (write-offs)
- Managing Help Tickets amongst the team
- Managing weekly drop ship tracker and report
- Daily payment run
- Booking ad hoc journal entries
- Collecting statements from high-volume vendors
- Connecting with Supply Chain/Buying counterparts within various categories to identify, investigate, and resolve pain points and credit holds
- Actively involved and collaborate on reporting solution, reconciliations and testing issues/resolutions with colleagues across all of the shared service centers
Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
- Managing AP mailboxes to ensure timely response and resolution regarding payment inquires, processing issues and other requests
- Assist with the month-end closing
- Executing monthly, quarterly or yearly reporting
- Managing vendor payments by review of payment proposal, investigating and reversing non-successful payments, managing vendor query by handling internal and external queries
- Ensuring all work documentation and work processes are updated and meet with Internal Control Financial Reporting (ICFR), group policies and guidelines, local statutory and legal requirements within agreed service timelines
- Extending coaching and guidance to juniors in daily operation
- Respond to phone and e-mail messages from internal / external parties
- Be a ‘Super user’ within the team, providing expert knowledge and support to peers and analysts through proper knowledge transfer
- Monitor and track overdue aged invoices with issue
- Strong ability to analyze data and reports in an efficient, timely and accurate manner and deliver results to management in a format that consistently considers the following
- Entertainment Accounts Payable background (mid-size studio preferred)
- Minimum of A-Levels or equivalent required
- Identify problems and issues, then evaluate options and solutions and communicate those suggestions for improvement to management
- Document critical processes and functions by developing or maintaining the following items
- May be required to participate in the completion of the month end closing process which may include
- Five (5) years' of experience in Accounting or Finance required
Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
- Review all invoices received for appropriate documentation, work with department heads to obtain approvals prior to payment, and code invoices to proper general ledger accounts in accordance with company policies
- Act as primary contact for vendors, reconcile statements, research billing issues and correct discrepancies
- When necessary, maintain and update process and procedural documentation to reflect changes on a timely basis, looking to continuously improve the process, adapting with the business
- To process non merch invoices
- To process web refunds
- Entry of ‘Pay on behalf of’ and intercompany transactions
- Project/Fixed Asset invoices
- UK Rent Proforma VAT entries and account reconciliation
- Ensure that all rent invoices are scanned and matched to their Property Manager generated counterpart
- To process all other non Property Manager related invoices (Rates etc)
- A Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent experience required
- Minimum of 4 to 6 years of experience in Accounts Payable with 2+ years of experience in a manufacturing or medical device environment
- Previous work experience with SAP is a must
- Exhibits meticulous attention to detail and is committed to producing accurate and well organized work
- Ability to use judgment in resolving issues and making recommendations
- Ability to thrive in a changing, fast-paced, growing and dynamic business
Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
- Acting as the sole point of contact to receive legal invoices and over-seeing the invoice process end to end
- Prepare, monitor, file and pay state and federal taxes for each association and ensure all quarterly tax estimates are paid timely
- Responsible for reviewing and processing any invoices in the AVID Inbox exception queue to ensure invoices keep moving through for approval
- Maintain the associations' cash balances on a weekly and monthly basis and can back up the AP Reps as needed
- Process and file year end 1099/1096
- Complete daily hand check requests forwarded by accounting manager or AP lead
- Analyzes exceptions, reviewing correspondence for follow-up and routes unresolved items to the appropriate departments
- Managing daily work load, facilitating customer service, providing technical assistance and problem resolution with limited supervision
- Responsible for account reconciliation with vendors
- Responsible for contract review, legal review and review for compliance standards
- Able to work independently or in a coordinated group
- Significant SAP experience together with experience of Accounts Payable OCR solution
- Excellent organisational skills together with good problem solving skills and the ability to meet deadlines
- International Accounts Payable dealings is desirable for this role
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common data
- Must display a solid work ethic and utmost integrity
Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
- Customer service attitude and good oral/written communication skills
- Audit expense reports for company compliance
- Responsible for new supplier set up and supplier maintenance
- Investigate and resolve any supplier invoice discrepancies
- Review of proper GL coding of invoices and expenses, documentation, and approvals
- Support with ACH, check, and manual payment runs
- 3-way matching and non-PO reconciliations
- GL Coding
- Prepare and issue 1099 vendor forms
- Work with business units and vendors to transition to electronic payment methods
- College degree with a focus in accounting is preferred
- Must have computer skills and dexterity required for data entry and retrieval of required job
- Ability to travel throughout and between facility locations
- Ability to work various hours, such as nights, weekends
- 1099 processing experience and knowledge of IRS regulations is a plus
- Experience in an AS/400 environment is preferred but not required