
Accounts Payable Associate Derry
Posted: 22nd October, 2024
Title: Accounts Payable Associate Derry
Department: Finance
Location: Derry
Purpose
This position is within the Nelipak flexibles finance team, comprising of Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, General Ledger Accounting and Trade Compliance.
This Finance Associate role is within the accounts payable team is a wide variety of transactional activities spanning different areas of the Finance and Accounting function. This role will support the Clara, Elsham, Derry and Winston US business units in all aspects of Accounts Payables. This position will report to the Accounts Payable Team Lead.
Responsibilities
- Enter vendor invoices into ERP systems to the appropriate general ledger accounts to generate payments.
- Maintain financial accuracy through adhering to all Accounts Payable policies and procedures.
- Follow up with procurement to ensure blocked invoices are resolved timely, ensuring vendors are paid within terms.
- Analyse and resolve vendor invoices in “blocked” or “parked” status
- Prepare month-end accruals in a timely manner per the month end checklist schedule.
- Prepare month end supplier reconciliations and review of GRIR
- Organize and execute invoice approval workflow in a timely manner to maximize discount opportunities.
- Work closely with location accountants to resolve accounts payable issues, such as vendors not paid, goods receipts, purchase orders, intercompany account confirmations, work to review and resolve GRIR issues.
- Identifies process improvement opportunities that will recognize the root cause of discrepancies, reduce future occurrences of aged account balances, and works with appropriate internal contacts to implement those improvements.
- Manage master Data set-up and maintenance of customer account details and controls.
- Perform other duties as assigned. Will include support of special projects as identified.
Education and/or Experience:
Essential Criteria:
- Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of contacts from corporate and external vendors to manufacturing employees
- Strong organizational skills in handling multiple responsibilities simultaneously with high attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
- Proactive problem solving and results oriented, able to work on own initiative
Desirable Criteria:
- Proven experience working in a fast-paced Finance function working to tight deadlines.
- Experience with SAP and other ERP Systems
- Studying towards or educated to 3rd level standard with Business related diploma or degree
This is a Part-Time role (24 hours per week) on a fixed-term contract for 12 months
The above list of job responsibilities is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope of the post.
FOR INTERESTED APPLICANTS: If you are interested in this position, please send a brief cover letter, resume, please state the job title applying for and any other relevant material for the candidacy to DerryHR@nelipak.com. Thank you!
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