japanese bilingual Financial AnalystAccenture Thailand

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PROJECT NAME: Project Crescent
POSITION TITLE: Japanese Procurement Operations Specialist
WORK SETUP: Return to Office
OVERALL PURPOSE:
• To build, sustain and motivate a high performance team
• Ensure Process KPI's and SLA are met consistently
• Supervise Accounts Payable Team: Invoice Processing, Payments, Approval Management, Vendor Management
RESPONSIBILITIES: Supervise Accounts Payable Team responsibilities not limited to: Invoice Processing:
Motivate, supervise and allocate the work of the AP Invoice Processing team.
Working across Account Payable Sub Teams
• Manage the processing of all exceptions
• Analysis, reconciliation and clearing of AP accounts
• Process of Intra-country and Intercompany invoices
• Supervise the processing of invoices and the set-up of vendors
• Liaise with customers and vendors on a day to day basis and solve queries
• Handle issues, escalations
• Manage AP period closing
Payments:
• Motivate, supervise and allocate the work of the AP Payments team
• Responsible for running daily payment cycles, submission of file to bank and receipt confirmation
• Working across Account Payable Sub Teams
• Interact regularly with bank contacts to resolve issues
• Analysis, reconciliation and clearing of AP accounts
• Supervise the set-up of vendors
• Identify, research and resolve rejected payments
• Handle issues, escalations
• Responsible for processing rush payments
Approvals Management:
• Motivate, supervise and allocate the work of the AP Approvals team
• Monitor activities and views in the approvals and authorizations database to ensure that invoices are moving through the system
• Handle queries relating to the approval of invoices
• Ensure monthly downloads of unapproved invoices are provided to assist in the accrual process
• Responsible for approvals and authorization function and management of the approval tool across all business units serviced within the Service Center Accounts Payable
• Ensure Approvals and Authorizations team meet targets and works within agreed SLAs
• Support continuous process improvement
• Working across Account Payable Sub Teams
• Handle issues, escalations
Vendor Management:
• Motivate, supervise and allocate the work of the AP Vendor Master team
• Monitor activities and views in the Vendor Queues to ensure that invoices are moving through the system
• Handle queries relating to the Vendor Creation and changes
• Ensure monthly downloads of unapproved invoices are provided to assist in the accrual process
Responsible for Supplier Hub function and management of the VM tool across all business units serviced within the Service Center Accounts Payable
Ensure Vendor Master team meet targets and works within agreed SLAs
• Support continuous process improvement
• Working across Account Payable Sub Teams
• Handle issues, escalations
OTHERS: Project Shift Schedule: Rotation Shift Project Rest Day: Weekends Off Project/Team Location: Mandaluyong Robinsons Cybergate Tower 2
SKILL AND QUALIFICATIONS:
• Previous experience in AP environment including Processing Approvals Payments and Vendor Maintenance
• Knowledge / understanding of accounting principles
• Flexibility
• Organizational skills and the ability to plan and manage own work effort and of the team
• Good knowledge of standard MS software
• Fluent in English is nice to have. Resource will support Japan only
• Customer Service Skills
• Japanese Level: N2 to Native Level
• Post graduate / graduate with 7 to 8 years of experience
• Prior Transition experience preferred
• Worked in BPO industry and managed accounts payable operations and worked across functions like procurement, vendor set up invoice processing, exception management, payment runs, reconciliations and repo
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