Senior Analyst - Accounts Payable

## What you’ll do:

• This position is a Team Lead : Accounts Payable role on the Global Financial Services and Systems Purchase-to-Pay team, supporting our AP processes and procedures for both Oracle and SAP based system.
• The primary responsibilities of this position includes providing functional production support for the Oracle and SAP accounts payable systems and related Eaton interfaces, supporting the development and implementation of accounts payable process improvements, new initiatives in a fast-paced, ever-changing, global environment and supervisory oversight of the AP team
• Transition and Project Management: Leads and actively participates in the Accounting Centralization & Optimization initiatives through planning, process design and alignment to global standards, UAT and support post transition. Activities include but not limited to building a partnership with each site to fully understand the business processes, actively participating in site assessment reviews
• Management and Supervisory oversight of the AP team and ensure they meet key project and roadmap timelines and service levels.
• Collaborate with key stakeholder to drive a positive customer experience

Internal Controls and Compliance: Drive controls and compliance by ensuring process comply with applicable financial policies and PTP key controls.

Business Partner:

(a) Effectively communiates and engages with customers to keep them abreast on project progress, potential risks as well as develope suitable mitigating plans.

(b) Advices customers on key accounting and process issues to drive resolution to comply with our controls program and financial policies

(c) Collaborates with upstream and downstream stakeholders to drive a seamless process and resolution of issues

Continous Improvement:

(a) Drive a lean and compliant process. Ability to identify patterns, trends, issues in the process and translate these into process improvements

(b) Identify and document functional requirements, guidance on solution approach, creates and executes test plan and other data validation requirements to enhance the overall process and technical solution effectiveness

## Qualifications:

Requirement:

• Bachelor/Masters degree in accounting,MBA, or Finance
• 6+ years varied accounting, information systems or finance experience

## Skills:

• Handled a team in large shared service and in matrix organization
• Must have knowledge for Purchase to Pay process, Invoice Processing, Reconciliation, Vendor Query resolution
• Process Governance: Supports month-end close processes, achieves month close deadlines by driving effective close procedures, timely resolution of any issue"
• Financial accounting systems experience in AP and/or GL within the SAP and/or Oracle platforms
• Excellent problem solving and written and oral communication skills
• Detail-oriented with effective organization and time management skills
• Highly motivated, highly analytical and self-starter
• Ability to mentor other team members
• Ability to work in a highly matrix enviroment and drive results thru self and others