Associate Director Accounts Payable and Travel & Expense

at  Alcon

Associate Director Accounts Payable and Travel & Expense
Location: Mexico City (Hybrid)
At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers. We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon.
As an Associate Director Accounts Payable and Travel & Expenses supporting the FRA Process Excellence team, you will provide direction/oversight for Accounts Payable, Disbursement, and T&E activities. Drives process improvements, ensures KPIs are met, as well as provides highly effective and efficient end-to-end processes to the Business Function. Drives compliance on its area of responsibility, as well as ensures systems, documentation and proper reporting is in place.
This role provides direction and support to team leads & Assistant Managers responsible for day to day processing of invoices, pay runs, reporting, inquiry management and T&E areas.

In this role, a typical day will include:

• Strengthens capabilities of the AP team and business partners by identifying, developing, and overseeing talent.
• Drives operational excellence, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Ensures agreed service levels (SLA) and KPI targets for the Business function are met
• Ensures accounting policies & procedures adherence and deliverables are completed on time.
• Ensures team members maintain appropriate standards of competence to perform day-to-day processing and issue resolution.
• Cultivates a culture that is customer service focused. Drive Operational Excellence initiatives within the BLR center and enhance the culture of Continuous Improvement.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders, and business partners including accounting authorities/auditors
• Collaborates within FRA to gain best practices insights to measure and improve operations and leverage project efforts
• Works to ensure a diverse and inclusive environment free from all forms of discrimination and harassment.
• Manages Day to Day activities
• Owns and drives future productivity improvements to achieve efficiency and effectiveness targets year over year
• Ensures through the team that reconciliations are completed for matching of system reports to balances, and that the right cost centers are charged.
• Ensure payments to vendors & employees are completed on time and accurately.
• Ensures the completeness of team’s work and manages escalations appropriately.
• Maintains high engagement levels in the team and across key stakeholders / business partners.
• Management reporting as necessary
• She/he will also support FRA Head in building and developing talent, and drive a continuous improvement mindset in the organization and develop and execute training in the areas of process excellence, Financial IT systems, technical accounting, internal controls and fraud awareness
• Ensuring the Statutory & Regulatory Tax compliances.
• Extended support in Statutory and internal Audit.
• Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
• Ensures adherence to segregation of duties

• Strengthens capabilities of the AP team and business partners by identifying, developing, and overseeing talent.
• Drives operational excellence, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Ensures agreed service levels (SLA) and KPI targets for the Business function are met
• Ensures accounting policies & procedures adherence and deliverables are completed on time.
• Ensures team members maintain appropriate standards of competence to perform day-to-day processing and issue resolution.
• Cultivates a culture that is customer service focused. Drive Operational Excellence initiatives within the BLR center and enhance the culture of Continuous Improvement.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders, and business partners including accounting authorities/auditors
• Collaborates within FRA to gain best practices insights to measure and improve operations and leverage project efforts
• Works to ensure a diverse and inclusive environment free from all forms of discrimination and harassment.
• Manages Day to Day activities
• Owns and drives future productivity improvements to achieve efficiency and effectiveness targets year over year
• Ensures through the team that reconciliations are completed for matching of system reports to balances, and that the right cost centers are charged.
• Ensure payments to vendors & employees are completed on time and accurately.
• Ensures the completeness of team’s work and manages escalations appropriately.
• Maintains high engagement levels in the team and across key stakeholders / business partners.
• Management reporting as necessary
• She/he will also support FRA Head in building and developing talent, and drive a continuous improvement mindset in the organization and develop and execute training in the areas of process excellence, Financial IT systems, technical accounting, internal controls and fraud awareness
• Ensuring the Statutory & Regulatory Tax compliances.
• Extended support in Statutory and internal Audit.
• Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
• Ensures adherence to segregation of dutie