AP Specialist

We’re looking for a motivated, deadline-driven Accounts Payable Specialist to join our Finance team. As an Accounts Payable Specialist, you will have the opportunity to play a pivotal role in business operations by owning the full cycle of AP, ensuring accurate and timely recording of expenses, and payments to vendors. 

Who we are:
Optiver is a global market maker with offices in Amsterdam, London, Chicago, Austin, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei. Over thirty-five years ago, we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s European Options Exchange. Today, we are a leading liquidity provider, with more than 1,600 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market by competitive pricing, execution and thorough risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver Chicago’s culture parallels the energetic city we’re immersed in. Home to the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago has established itself as the trading capital of the US.

What you’ll do: 

• Process, code and maintain approval support for invoices received for US and UK entities
• Collaborate with Procurement team on procure to pay process
• Ensure completeness over invoices received, manage AP inbox
• Prepare supporting documentation and process ACH and wire payments
• Independently research and resolve accounts payable related issues and discrepancies
• Manage 1099 process, maintain vendor relationships, and answer any inquiries as needed
• Build and maintain various AP reports; assist with operating expense variance analysis
• Collaborate with tax team to assist in sales and use tax and VAT calculations
• Prepare journals and perform various support schedules and reconciliations in support of the month-end close process
• Assist with special projects, as needed

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• At least 3-5 years accounting or relevant experience
• Ability to define problems and resolve them quickly
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to collaborate across the organization
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Strong time management and prioritization skills
• Proven ability to successfully meet deadlines
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, etc.
• NetSuite, Accrualify, or Atlassian/Jira experience is a plus
• Knowledge of brokerage and trading technology vendors and expenses, a plus
• Experience with Sales and Use Tax and VAT a plus

What you’ll get: 

• Work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 countries
• Performance based bonus structure that is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
• Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.

Alongside this you will get other great benefits such as 25 paid vacation days and market holidays, fully paid commuting expenses and health insurance, daily breakfast and lunch, training opportunities, 401(k) match up to 50% and charitable match opportunities, regular social events and clubs, and many more.