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Senior Accounts Payable Analysts is to partner with the Accounts Payable Manager and offshore team to set department standards through superior customer service, while ensuring best practices are followed for timely and accurate payments of supplier invoices. Provides support to Accounts Payable team members through training, troubleshooting, and assistance with supplier payments when necessary. This role will be a key player in providing Accounts Payable daily payments, developing, and monitoring KPI's, reporting metrics, forecasting supplier spend and payments, implementing process improvements, and identifying automation opportunities within the Procure to Pay cycle. This team player will interface with all levels of the company in addressing supplier inquiries, concerns, and issues. They will conduct training, testing, and continuously improve the supplier's experience while acting as Subject Matter Expert.
Responsibilities
- Perform daily review of supplier payment proposals and provide weekly forecasting based on scheduled due dates
- Develop and track relevant KPI's and metrics to improve our supplier experience
- Research filed supplier payment inquires and resolve them in accordance with Company service levels.
- Interact and partner with business leaders regarding Supplier inquiries and drive root cause correction initiatives
- Analyze supplier statements, reconcile accounts, and bring visibility to recurring payment issues
- Lead contact for payment escalations, supplier issues and performs root cause analysis to present cross functional solutions to Accounting and Finance leadership for corrective actions
- Consolidate business needs from Processors, Purchasing, Receiving, or any other business teams and bring recommendations to Accounts Payable leadership
- Provide recommendations on payments / system related improvements for invoicing, including OCR solution for invoice processing and host-2-host (H2H) payment integration with bank partners
- Support department month-end & year-end close responsibilities including IRS 1099 compliance and reporting
- Validate data from other internal sources and ensure an appropriate course of resolution is being pursued
- Host periodic supplier calls, provide ad hoc reporting and analyses to leverage insights to supplier spend and payment trends
- Evaluate, recommend, maintain, and monitor applicable internal controls to standardize business processes and procedures
- Mentor and train others on reports, systems, payment process flows, and procedures
- Complete audit requests while working closely with internal and external auditors
About You
- Bachelor's degree required in Accounting or Finance, or a related discipline required with an MBA preferred
- 1-3 years General Analytics (Accounting, Accounts Payable, GL, Procure-to-Pay, or any other Finance related area) or relevant work experience, Oracle ERP experience is a plus
- Broad experience with cross functional teamwork and interaction with all levels of an organization
- Ability to analyze information, think through difficult problems, and make critical decisions based on limited operational information
- Ability to solve problems and re-engineer processes using analytical frameworks to streamline the process
- Ability to work quickly and accurately with minimal supervision while managing competing priorities, organizing work, meeting, or exceeding supplier needs, and attending to details
- Must be a self-starter who can work well within various situations (from well-defined to unstructured) and proactively identify business improvement areas
- Demonstrates functional knowledge/expertise in problem solving and payment resolution in the retail industry preferred
- Demonstrates excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
- High skillset in data retrieval, manipulation, calculation, and analysis using ERP and Mainframe systems; including Excel
Physical Requirements
- Ability to travel up to ~10% of the time, which may include weekends and evenings, as needed
- Most work is performed in a temperature-controlled environment
- Incumbent may sit for long periods of time at a desk or computer terminal
- Incumbent may use calculators, keyboards, telephone, and other office equipment in the course of a normal workday
- Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in completion of job duties
Competencies
- Drives Results - Pushing self to achieve goals and results
- Situational Adaptability - Adapting to change and being flexible
- Communicates Effectively - Delivering clear messages and listening for understanding
- Collaborates - Working cooperatively to achieve shared goals
Our Values
Ability to demonstrate, understand and apply our workplace values.
Simplicity (operate) - the drive to identify root cause and innovate to remove complexity to deliver the best outcome
Heart (emotion) - the passion that drives you to get up every day and work hard to strive for excellence
Performance Excellence (mindset) - clearly defining high expectations, driving ownership of key roles and responsibilities, executing with integrity and emphasis while creating a culture of accountability
Respect (philosophy) -taking pride in being inclusive and treating everyone who comes through the doors with respect
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the work performed by the employees assigned to this job. All employees must comply with Company policy and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified may vary within each department and /or location.
- Job Family SC Individual Contributors
- Pay Type Salary
- Employment Indicator Hybrid
