Turner & Townsend is seeking a self鈥慸riven, detail鈥憃riented Senior Accounts Payable Specialist to support all accounts payable activities for a single major project site. This role requires advanced full鈥慶ycle AP experience and the ability to operate independently while partnering closely with on-site project teams, vendors, and the central Finance function.
The Senior AP Specialist will oversee day-to-day AP operations for that project, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely financial processing in a dynamic environment. The candidate will demonstrate a deep understanding/working knowledge of full cycle accounts payable function. and will provide support to the project team as required, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely financial processing in a dynamic environment, and assistance with the development of ad hoc financial analyses.
Key Accountibilities
- Invoice Processing: Independently process and review complex vendor invoices, ensuring accurate matching to purchase orders, contracts, and project documentation.
- Expense Coding: Assign appropriate general ledger codes, cost centers, and project-specific accounting attributes with a high level of accuracy.
- Vendor Communication: Serve as a key point of contact for vendors, proactively resolving inquiries, discrepancies, and disputes.
- Payment Processing: Prepare and process payments to vendors, ensuring adherence to payment terms, internal controls, and company policies.
- Expense Reconciliation: Reconcile vendor statements and resolve complex discrepancies in a timely and thorough manner.
- Month-End Closing: Lead AP-related month-end activities for the project site, including reconciliations, accruals, and reporting.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with company policies, client requirements, SOX regulations, and industry best practices.
- Support: Provide support to the project team and Finance department, including ad hoc financial analysis, reporting, and special projects.
- SOX Compliance: Perform duties with a high degree of accuracy and integrity while maintaining full adherence to SOX controls.
- Audit Support: Support internal, external, and compliance audits by preparing accurate documentation and timely responses.
- Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve AP and site workflows and recommend or support the implementation of process enhancements.
- Reporting: Provide accurate, high-quality information and analysis on a timely basis.
- Policy Adherence: Ensure client and Turner & Townsend standard procedures and policies are consistently applied.
- Confidentiality: Preserve the confidentiality of sensitive financial and project information.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.