Specialist - Accounts Payable (SEA PAC)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:Global Business Services (GBS) aims to provide globally unified services based on standardized and automated solutions across different functions and markets. This will enable us to drive operational efficiency, quality services, improved agility and better decision-making whilst reducing complexity and workload.

It delivers high quality services in the areas of Order to Cash (O2C), Source To Pay (S2P), Record to Report (R2R), Controlling & Reporting and Hire to Retire for adidas companies and subsidiaries.

Key Responsibilities

• Handling and posting of incoming invoices and related vendor master data creation and maintenance
• Preparation and review of payment proposals for adidas subsidiariesReceive scan copies of invoice and register in tracker
• Validate invoices according to policy requirement
• Conduct 3-way (2-way) match for invoices and entry in ERP
• Perform double checks to the data entry
• Follow up on assigned cases in system
• Answer basic or simple enquiries through emails
• Preparation of External and Internal Audit requests
• Create and analyze various reports under area of responsibility including regular reporting
• Maintain files and documentation thoroughly and accurately, in accordance with company policy and accepted accounting practices
• Identify the improvement opportunities and support their implementation
• Assist ongoing projects for the implementation of technology solutions
• Assist requests from partner Finance departments
  
  

Key Relationships

• GBS senior leadership team
• S2P GPO team
• GBS Porto Delivery Excellence
• Finance teams in the markets
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Accounting knowledge
• Experience with SAP is an advantage
• Experience in a Shared Service environment is an advantage
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English and in a business setting
• Ability to pay close attention to detail and high degree of customer orientation
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Self-motivated and self-directed individual
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4 to 7 years of relevant work experience in the Accounts Payable
• Bachelors/Masters in Accounting, Business Management, Economics or related areas
  
  

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