Senior Associate Operations - Accounts Payable/Nightshift (US hours)
Main Purpose:
- Transactional management for clients’ Accounts Payable (AP) function. Responsible for accurately processing, analysing, balancing and reconciling all financially related activities within the specified time frames and Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets.
- Post stabilisation of business operations and implementation of transformation initiatives, the role can evolve from transactional processing to higher-end work including but not restricted to exception handling, problem solving skills and using the latest technology to deliver future results.
Key Responsibilities:
- To accurately capture invoices in the accounting systems in order to effect payment on time and accurately to Creditors (check and match orders)
- Check figures against commission schedules for accuracy within specified deadlines
- Ensure invoices are properly authorised in accordance with Delegation of Authority (DOA) and allocate it to correct Vendor & General Ledger accounts on a daily basis
- Attentively and accurately process invoices in Accounts Payable and post batches daily (payment of invoices) as per DOA
- Distribution of remittances to vendors post payment runs
- Vendor reconciliations (reconcile payments and control accounts
- Financial Closing (Month-end, half-year and year-end activities associated with AP function)
- Perform thorough investigations on financial differences
- Initiate adjustments/corrections within control parameters
- Process vendor queries including follow-up to conclude any outstanding items
- Immediate escalation to Team leads to address unresolved issues
- File supporting documentation electronically (logical and available)
- Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction
Compliance to company policies/procedure and reporting timelines