Senior Accounts Payable Accountant
- Porto
- 18.900-23.100 € por ano
- Permanente
- Horário completo
- Invoice Processing: Receiving, verifying, and recording supplier invoices and credit notes in the accounting system.
- Payment Management: Preparing and executing payments to suppliers, ensuring adherence to deadlines and internal procedures.
- Supplier Account Reconciliation: Identification and follow up of discrepancies between invoices and payments.
- Disputes management: Identifying and following up with operations invoices subjects to disputes.
- Period end closing participation: Close AP Sub ledger & reconcile with GL.
- Risk Management: Assess and manage financial risks related to accounts payable and propose mitigation measures.
- Compliance and Audit: Ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations and preparing necessary documents for audits.
- Continuous Improvement: Participating in projects to improve processes and systems for managing supplier accounts.
- Governance with internal clients: supporting the AP Tower Lead in the governance bodies with the internal clients (entities based in Spain and Portugal), preparing and following-up on KPIs reports, performance reports.
- Transition support: Active contribution in process migrations from IBERIA countries to the SSC Porto (trainings, understanding local processes, process documentation).
- Training and Development: Train and develop the skills of team members.
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. A professional certification (e.g., CC) is a plus.
- 5 to 7 years of experience in Accounting, with significant experience in Accounts Payable.
- In-depth knowledge of accounting principles and financial standards.
- Ability to analyze processes, identify pain points and propose optimization actions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for interacting with internal stakeholders / internal clients and suppliers.
- Proficiency in English.
- Ability to travel around Iberia Region for the first 2 to 3 months (migration period from local Spanish and / or Portuguese entities towards the SSC in Porto).
- Experience working in an SSC environment is a plus.
- Proficiency in any other European languages is a plus (French, Dutch, German, Polish, Spanish - Catalunya, English - Irish, etc).