About this role
Role Overview
- Reports accounts payable metrics including aging and status of rejected items, debit balances and AP days.
- With direction from accounting team works to resolve bank reconciliation issues.
- Manages the contra relationship with select suppliers/customers.
- Monthly analysis of the goods received not invoiced ensuring all balances are valid.
- Generates and analyzes the debit balances report for returned items or duplicate payments.
- Ensures recovery of the debit balances through collection of funds from the supplier or offset against future payments.
- Takes independent action to gather ideas and gain consensus with cross-functional teams on process improvement recommendations.
- Communicates to ensure ideas are understood and accepts perspective of others.
- Writes effectively and makes internal presentations.
- Meets group needs, and works to achieve team goals over individual goals.
- Evaluates alternatives based on pros/cons.
- Provides input on how to manage required changes.
- Leads by example and is accountable for own actions.
Requirements
- Zero to two years in a relevant position
- Ability to manage multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines
- Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion
- Ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers
- Willingness to take initiative to achieve objectives
- Thorough understanding of accounting principles.
- Can apply Corporate accounting policies and procedures manual.
- Basic understanding of forecasting and planning
- Ability to calculate and do basic interpretation of all key business metrics.
- Provide interpretation of reports/results to users.
- Generates reports with job-related software.
- Understanding of the capabilities of the tools can identify problems and troubleshoot input errors.
- Understands inter-relationships between departments.
Benefits
- Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process.