Accounts Payable Analyst

at  SABIC Saudi Basic Industries Corp

MINIMUM EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Min. Bachelor degree within Finance / Economics
• Basic knowledge of Procure to pay-processes and especially the roles & responsibilities of Accounts Payable within these processes
• Fluently verbal and writing knowledge & skills of English next to Dutch or Spanish close-to-native language (depending on the location)
• Good knowledge of Microsoft tools Outlook / Word and Excel
• Basic knowledge of VAT-guidelines in different European countries and able to aply them in correct way during invoice handling
• Working effectively and constructively with others with a positive mindset; establishing and maintaining good working relationships, committed to the team and targets set (collaboration, customer focused)
• Maintaining stable performance under pressure or opposition (such as time pressure or job ambiguity); handling stress in a manner that is acceptable to others and the organization
• Excellent social and analyzing skills; used to and willing to work in a virtual environment
• Flexible; willing and able to easily adapt to changes (in scope / systems / procedures etc.)
• Eager to learn
• Ideally, approx. 2-3 years of general working experience in an accounting environment. Fresh graduates with first working experience or internships within accounting also welcomed
• At least 1-2 years of relevant SAP experience( transactional processing & FI/CO + basic knowledge of MM)
• Apply accounting principles without difficulties
• Problem analyses and resolution, acting in an organized way
• Relevant knowledge and able to apply VAT-guidelines of different European countries

JOB PURPOSE

For scope of all European legal entities , both PETCHEM- as well as SHPP-business (65 legal entities):

• process all of the incoming invoices , both purchase order as well as not purchase order related in such a way that all issues have been solved or have been escalated in a correct way to the impacted stakeholder in the process
• Prepare, check and perform all payment runs in scope , in line with all requirements
• Contribute to correctly, completely and timely execution of other operational responsibilities like handling of accounts payable related central mailboxes, corrections, masterdata requests
• Act as contact person for both internal (procurement / SCM / tax-dpt / business) and external stakeholders / suppliers

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Daily processing of incoming vendor invoices via the SAP Invoice Management tool ending up in predefined workflow exceptions (according to the system configuration),where the team will be measured on correctness and timeliness of processing (being pro-active and solution driven)
• Execute the relevant activities to prepare, run and check the payment runs / payment exceptions including taking proper (correction) actions and / or escalation to proper stakeholders when needed,, amongst which IM-colleagues, Treasury department, Masterdata team
• Initiate and monitor creation of non-PO vendors as well as of any other relevant masterdata changes for existing vendors (mainly bankdata and VAT-numbers)
• Collect recurring operational issues , report to align and discuss with Senior Analysts and Specialist within IM-team
• Feel and act responsible for all activities in scope of GFO P2P IM Europe-team, including support and / or take over activities from direct colleagues when and where needed