Supervisor, AP Accounting

at  Flowserve Corporation

Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone. With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services. We support 10,000+ customers worldwide, creating products to meet the needs of our customers who are supplying energy, fresh water, pharmaceuticals and other essentials to consumers, businesses and governments globally. We invite you to put your talents and career in motion at Flowserve.
Company Overview:
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!
As an Accounting Supervisor, you will lead a team of accountants supporting the P2P process and focusing on invoice postings, vendor management and month-end close activity such as accrual preparation etc. From an accounting perspective this is mainly in US GAAP.

People management

• Supervise the day to day work of the team including invoice processing, payment, accounting, collections, month end closing processes and account reconciliations under US-GAAP as applicable for the team led
• Initiate resource needs based on appropriate approvals
• Actively participate in recruitment and selection processes and employer branding
• Onboarding of new joiners and support their integration into the team and facilitate process induction
• Help develop an environment and culture that supports the attraction and retention of quality talent
• Support their team members to develop clear ownership and understanding of the processes and metrics necessary to continue financial activity including KPIs and other business metrics
• Proactively organize employee engagement activities and reward top talent
• Manages talent process for own team: Performance management, talent assessment, succession planning and development plan creation and follow-up
• Mentor and continuous coaching for team members
• Manage personnel-related issues within team
• Responsible for balancing team workload and ensuring month-end deadlines and other KPI targets are met for the team
• Create appropriate backup structure and cross-training to ensure continuous service levels
• Act as a role model for team and represent Flowserve values in daily behaviors, activities, and decisions

Process

• Build a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement
• Coordinate internal and external audit request
• In cooperation with process Subject Matter Expert and other teams in the BSC, supervise own team to transition responsibilities from sites into the BSC
• Ensure up-to-date process documentation, updating, maintaining process workflows
• Knowledge management, updating knowledge base for own team
• Work cross functionally to ensure BSC processes work within the assigned area of responsibility

Quality and legal compliance and controls

• Forecast and monitor the team’s workload and activities, holiday, overtime, etc. while ensuring legal compliance and quality control
• Implement, and maintain effective internal controls for own area
• Report activities of the team to stakeholders through regular and ad hoc reporting
• Monitor appropriate accesses for all team members in line with SOX, other legal and Flowserve process requirements
• Ensure compliance with FLS policies, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as defined by FLS, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and local statutory laws and regulations and that business is conducted within FLS ethical code of business conduct.
• Demonstrate thorough understanding of financial controls for local and SOX requirements.
• Provide advice as needed and ensure governance and internal control standards are embedded in the end to end processes and operations.

Stakeholder management

• Build partnerships with stakeholders internal and external to own team.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure accurate and controlled financial statements for own domain.
• Maintain a functional and healthy relationship with site leadership, procurement, finance, and other stakeholders based on need of cooperation.