Payment Specialist

at  Novanta

Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.
Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.
This position is part of Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services global teams. Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services teams play an important role in executing the company’s strategic mission and operations. Included in Corporate and Shared Services are the business functions including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Development and Corporate Marketing. The Corporate and Shared Services teams work closely with all Novanta business units to support operating initiatives contributing to the organization’s financial success.
Summary
This job is responsible for payment run creation in multiple company ERP systems, upload payment files to online banking and resolve related inquiries.

Primary Responsibilities

• Prepare and issue payments on daily basis for multiple Novanta companies
• Upload payment files to bank
• Process ad hoc payments
• Download bank statements from online banking portal
• Resolve bank inquiries if needed
• Follow corporate accounting policies and procedures to ensure SOX compliance
• Assist with special projects as required

• Assist with SOX audits – preparation of documentation for internal and external Auditors

  Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting

• Oracle or SAP ERP system experience is a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; German is a plus
• Advanced skills with excel, Word and MS Office
• Able to work on own initiative, high level of work quality and attention to details

• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with others from multiple locations

  Travel Requirements

• Prepare and issue payments on daily basis for multiple Novanta companies
• Upload payment files to bank
• Process ad hoc payments
• Download bank statements from online banking portal
• Resolve bank inquiries if needed
• Follow corporate accounting policies and procedures to ensure SOX compliance
• Assist with special projects as required
• Assist with SOX audits – preparation of documentation for internal and external Auditor