Ops Accounting Analyst 1

As the AP Payments Processing Analyst, this person is responsible to support the team members in the execution of payments to vendors, employee’s reimbursements, business credit cards, intercompany payments, and any other kind of payments. The person in this position should have an outstanding knowledge of the end-to-end payments process execution to drive process improvements, improve customer service with strong relations with vendors and employees, and should be considered as an SME because of his payment’s systems expertise. Also needs to drive projects towards SCO goals and requires strong interaction with global AP counterparts and other external parties, especially to coordinate with the banking areas and treasury departments.

This position manages high risk activities such as the control of the funding to banking accounts, the control and resolution with payment issues (Payment rejections, wrong bank account, duplicate payment recoveries, etc.).

Job Purpose:

This position is mainly addressed to define payments processes and to ensure controls are in place for payments processes of a specific country or a group of countries. This position will control any risks associated with the payments process, as the final step for payments to suppliers or Employee Expense Reimbursements payments. Will identify process improvement opportunities. This role will support team members in the execution of payments and perform accordingly.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze payments processes for improvements of the procedures
• Generate payment run for the countries from P2P
• Generate payment run reports from P2P
• Generate funding reports from P2P
• Execute non-P2P payments
• Request funds to complete payments of the day through the different methods and platforms (CD, BRM, CWM, etc.)
• Request deals for foreign currency payments
• Manually add other payments that are not in the payment run for example an urgent payment into the different payment platforms.
• Reconcile and control the disbursement account
• Make the electronic payments through the payments system
• Instruct Journal entries when required
• Generate the Corporate Credit Card payments
• Generate the Employee Out of Pocket expense payments
• Generate the payment receipts when required
• Generate payment rejection reports from P2P and payment platforms
• Analyzed and resolve rejection reasons to process payments to rejected invoices.
• Create and review of tickets from Service Now
• Act as tester during implementation, automatizations, COBs.
• Support audit request requirements
• Support SCO project implementations (testing, work sessions, calls, walkthrough)

Qualifications:

Knowledge/Experience:

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) knowledge
• P2P/Oracle Knowledge
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

• Fluent English level (B2).
• Accounts payable experience
• Intermediate Accounting knowledge
• CitiDirect Knowledge is a must

Skills:

• Leadership
• Process Improvement Oriented
• Good verbal and written communications skills
• Good prioritization skills and time management
• Accountability
• Flexibility to work additional hours outside of normal schedule when required
• Works well under pressure in accounts payable environment
• Team player

• Excellent customer service
• Action Orientation
• Good adapting to change

Competencies:

• Analysis/Judgment
• Ownership
• Attention to Details
• Negotiation
• Goal Orientation
• Proactive
• Problem Solving
• Work under pressure
• Fast Learner
• Sense of urgency

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