Regional AP Lead

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities

A sneak peek into this role:

IBM is looking for a self-driven and highly motivated Accounts Payable Leader with proven experience to join our IBM Procurement Services team for one of IBM”s key clients in Germany. As an Accounts Payable Specialist you will be supporting back office requirements which includes but not limited to supporting different team members as well as stakeholders. In addition you will perform workload distribution among the team members optimizing processes and conduct performance review conversations.

Why you’ll love your job:

• Schedule the payment review payment proposals and process the payment run.

• Handle both manual urgent and automatic payment requests.

• Validate duplicate postings via ACL.

• Vendor master creation changes verification and cleansing.

• Vendor Reconciliation.

• Be involved in handling queries for vendor statement reconciliation through calls and emails.

• Identify duplicate records for Vendor Master Maintenance ensuring accurate invoice receipt verification and processing.

• Prioritize the processing of urgent/aging invoices Record / quality check of invoices (both Purchase Order-Based and Non-Purchase Order-Based)

• Coordinate with various stakeholders obtain coding and approval and resolve issues related to blocked invoices.

• Ensure payment and expense entries are posted in the accounting software on a timely basis.

• Process travel and expense claims manage payments resolve duplicate payment issues and verify and run payment proposals.

• Adhere to client SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and timelines.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

What you will bring to the team:

• Fluency in English (German or Italian is a huge advantage)
• Minimum of 2-4 Years of experience in Accounts Payable.
• Experienced in payments invoice posting vendor management including query resolution and vendor reconciliation
• Leadership skills analytical skills people management background.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing payment reporting and reconciliation activities.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience with the following are bonus points but not necessary you can learn them at IBM:

• SAP and CAAPS A/P Invoicing and Payment Module
• Prior Payment Job relate experience
• Prior Accounting Job related experience
• Knowledge of IBM Cloud and Softlayer Procure to Pay process
• Transition experience
• Query and SQL writing skills

In return we provide you with:

• Dynamic diverse inclusive and supporting environment
• Professional skill – growth opportunities reskilling possibility
• Access to worldwide leading technologies
• Agile office area
• Hybrid working model
• Competitive compensation and benefit package including healthcare

And don’t worry if you don’t tick every single box in the requirements. We’re always looking to hire for potential and the right mindset – so we’d still love to hear back from you.

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• Randstad: Most Attractive SSC Employer in 2020
• Family Friendly Workplace Award (2018 2019 2020)
• Responsible Employer recognition (2018-2021)
• Most Attractive Employer (3rd) (2020)
• Disability-Friendly Workplace Recognition (2010-2020)
• Disability-Friendly Workplace Best Employee & Role Model Employee Award (2021)
• Stevie Awards for our Teams & Professionals (2018 2019 2021)
• Hungarian Outsourcing Association CSR Award (2021)

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