Celanese is looking for a talented accounts payable analyst to join our controllership team in mexico serving the argentinian entity. You will interact with various teams in accounting, treasury, procurement, foreign trade, tax and service centers as part of your daily routine. This position will be primarily responsible for coordinating payment demands with internal customers, increasing efficiency to the accounts payable process through accurate processing and development of tools/routines to streamline operations. The accounts payable analyst will have significant exposure to global service center teams, global accounts payable technical teams, banks and law firms.
Your daily responsibilities will be:
- support to internal regional customers (argentina) on payment process: payment monitoring, rush payments, training to payment requestors and daily interaction with service center responsible for processing payments.
- supervises workflows e follows up closely to prevent processing and payment delays.
- main internal contact with accounting and tax 3rd parties.
- fully understand the procure-to-pay cycle and monthly ap cycle.
- follow-up and coordination of foreign trade payments and export control requirements: reviewing import documentation, entering data in bank portals, per argentinean regulations for foreign trade payments, being in close contact with banks and law firms to understand changes in regulations and impacts to organization.
- develop, maintain and monitor ap kpi’s;
- maintain ap local systems (invoice repository);
- document ap related processes, procedures and maintain training materials updated.
- support regional/global initiatives of process improvements
*requirements*:
- bachelor’s degree in accounting, economics or business administration.
- 3-4 years’ relevance experience in accounts payable at a multinational company.
- experience in argentina finance and accounting operations is desirable.
- experience working with erp systems such as sap or comparable system.
- strong language skills: advanced english is required.
- international and domestic payment experience using different payment methods and banks.
- highly organized and deadline driven individual that can deal with multiple conflicting demands.
- sense of urgency, attention to details and learning curiosity.
- a professional who can work independently with mínimal supervision and effectively manage time to meet all deadlines in an international team environment
- effective communication skills with peers and all leaders in global.
- strong software skills - especially in ms excel and other ms office products, sap experience is a must
- strong customer focus
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