Accounts Payable Specialist

Description

We are looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Specialist to join our team. The ideal candidate should have 3-5 years of experience in the job market in India. The candidate should have a strong understanding of accounting principles and should be able to perform various accounts payable tasks with accuracy and efficiency.

You will be reporting to the Team Lead, Accounts Payable.

Introduction to Function & Role:

The Accounts Payable process is carried out for North America, Europe and APAC regions including Non-English-speaking countries. The scope includes Invoice Processing, Validation, IOH, Vendor creation, Disbursement and Helpdesk activities within agreed timeline as per EA internal policy, ensure payment to suppliers and employees and managing Customer Service for the internal customers.

The responsibility of an AP Specialist II is to have end-to-end knowledge on 2 to 3 AP activities as listed above along with hands-on working experience to support the process on daily basis as per the requirement.

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Work on the assigned process and support team as per the process requirement.

2. You will provide excellent customer service to our partners and suppliers to resolve their queries to fix the issues.

3. Do the follow up on pending items.

4.You will Address on help desk queries and resolutions as per request within agreed Service level agreement.

5. Look for the opportunities in cleaning the aged items by working with different teams to keep the records up too date.

6. Experience on Non-speaking English language countries AP processes, also understanding different tax concepts of multiple countries Specially for Canada region taxes.

7. Deliver internal set defined targets on publishing monthly Dashboards, Productivity and Accuracy.

8. Work with IT on the system issues & change requests to ensure the relevant testing is done before moving the fix to Prod.

9. Adept in publishing the quarterly metric and documenting the process change promptly.

10. Create and amend vendor records by verifying the vendor information against the provided documents.

11. Review vendor records and de-activate the dormant vendors in database.

12. You will Process vendor payments, employee payments using different forms of payment methods (eg: Wire, Check, ACH).

13. Your experience issuing the manual payments using the bank website will be an added advantage.

14. Working on Payment rejections and reissuing the payments to vendors.

15. Have an experience in AP Month end close activities and working on AP-GL reconciliations.

16. Work with the Vendors or partners in resolving the open credits or aged transactions.

Experience:

• A bachelor's degree in accounting or business administration.
• 3 5 years of experience in Accounts Payable process and experience of 2 - 3 years in Payments, VM activities & help desk queries.
• Hands-on experience with R12 preferred & remote transition.
• Intermediate level excels, PowerPoint.
• Keyboard skills more than 25 words per minute.
• Passion for continuous improvement and applying technology.
• Good team player and result oriented.
• Flexible with working hours given the potential global coverage of this role.