AP Accountant Job Description
AP Accountant Duties & Responsibilities
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AP Accountant Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for AP Accountant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPA, MBA
Education for AP Accountant
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Employers hiring for the AP accountant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Accounting, Finance, Education, Business, Management, English, Accountancy, Finance/Accounting, Economics, Communication
Skills for AP Accountant
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Desired experience for AP accountant includes:
AP Accountant Examples
AP Accountant Job Description
- Maintain accounting records, including accounts payable, travel expenses and banking processes
- Communicate in foreign languages (English)
- Act as the liaison with Amex for the Corporate Card & Travel Program
- Work in concert with U.S. and Global Head of Travel in on-going implementations and enhancements to the travel policy, supplying communication bank wide through the AmNet Travel Page
- Be accountable for monthly American Express Travel Fees, and Car Rental Insurance Premium Fees
- Collaborate with regional function team with any invoice payment follow-up
- Process vast amount of transactions completely and accurately including expense reports, invoice entry, disbursements
- Prepare monthly AP aging report and analysis
- Follow monthly GL closing process
- Review COA with the expenses report by weekly basis and ensure the accuracy on COA strings prior to the close week
- Accounting shared service center experience would definitely be a plus
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience, preferable from MNC or sizable company
- Immediately available is a must
- Ability to deliver reliable, accurate results-even under time pressure, Flexibility in work time
- Accounting major and CPA is preferred
- Self driven and self starter
AP Accountant Job Description
- Prepare monthly manual journal entries in Oracle system with proper supporting documentation
- The user to create P.O
- Collect the JV from CSSC
- Maintain GL detail and AP detail/TB year to date by monthly
- Support senior accountants in recording all tax withholdings
- Complete the new process transition and migration
- Represents the accounting department on specific projects
- Verification of incoming invoices, payment reminders, travel expenses
- Posting incoming invoices, travel expenses according to travel management policy, payment run that refers to travel expenses
- Reconciliation and maintenance of vendor balances and master data
- Experience in AX is preferred
- Clear understanding of PRC GAAP and US GAAP including chart of accounts, journal entries, balance sheets, and reconciliation
- Organized, efficient, able to follow tasks through to completion
- Create and maintain vendor master data, file vendor documents, and coordinate necessary information with vendors
- Receive and authorize invoices, credit/debit notes travel expenses
- Handle petty cash booking
AP Accountant Job Description
- Interaction with suppliers in terms of missing or incorrect invoices
- Participation in month and year closing activities
- Clearing vendor, customer, GL account open items
- Posting of credit card settlements, cash reporting, bank statements
- Preparation of payment proposal and payment run
- Posting of fixed assets, accruals for subcontractors and missing invoices during month end close
- Participate, take initiatives and active role in continuous improvement process and initiatives within SSC Int’l AP Team and SSC Finance
- Investigates and resolves payment-related issues (duplicate, rejected and returned payments)
- Requests statement of account to identified critical vendors on a regular basis and performs reconciliation
- Monitors and resolves issues for non-payment of overdue invoices, from missing invoice copies, posting to the system up to payment
- Support month end closing other ad-hoc tasks within the finance group
- Nissho Boki 2 or higher certification
- Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy in preparing and entering financial and payroll information
- Well verse in excel
- Meticulous and deadline driven
- Self-motivated, hard-driven, with earnest desire to learn and grow
AP Accountant Job Description
- The position is based in Prague, Czech Republic and will be reporting to the Accounting Manager based in Prague
- Responsible for execution of month end close, ensuring results are delivered on time for reporting in accordance with accounting principles and standards, and company policies and processes
- Perform assigned accounts reconciliation, fluxes and follow up on key issues
- Review work done by outsourced offshore service provider team, provide feedback & trainings to improve work quality & efficiencies, and handle escalations from/into the outsourced offshore service provider team
- Helping the accounting function scale as the Company grows
- Poste of purchase invoices, bank statements, accruals for subcontractors and missing invoices
- Settle business trips and poste travel expenses
- Research and solve accounting transaction questions and other issues with suppliers and customers
- Reconcile vendor balances
- Prepare payments
- 2 to 5 years working experience in finance / accounting role
- Degree in Accountancy and Finance
- At least 3 years of practical experience in accounting field, experience in multinational companies is preferred
- Familiar with PRC & US GAAP
- Detail-oriented, be accurate with numbers
- Willing to work under pressure and challeng
AP Accountant Job Description
- Support during tax inspections and other local authorities’ audits
- Participate in month and year closing activities
- Supports the Site Finance Manager in providing the best finance and accounting services based on the requirement of local management, government, and other stakeholders
- Ensures timely payment to vendors
- Ensures accurate and timely tax filing and payment
- Ensures clean bill of health from all internal and external audits
- Ensures receivables are collected immediately
- Creates a motivating work environment
- Provide excellent customer service to internal and external business partners
- Complete detailed reviews and approvals of invoices entered in PeopleSoft, and ability to effectively manage high-volume processing periods
- Work experience in a start up environment is an advantage
- Desire to take on ad hoc projects
- Good grasp of US GAAP accounting principles
- Typically requires a bachelor's or master's degree in accounting or a related discipline and three or more years of progressive experience in accounting with a bachelor's degree, or at least one year of experience with a master's degree
- Must have good interpersonal skills and communication abilities that enable effective interface with staff members in developing accounting documentation and in making presentations
- 3-4 years’ experience in SSC structures (AR, billing or other finance environment)