AP Junior Accountant at Willemsen-de Koning in Rio de Janeiro

AP Junior Accountant

Location: Rio de Janeiro

Join our global team for a career filled with opportunities to solve challenges both small and large, local and global, simple and complex.

Main responsibilities

Position-holder is responsible for:

• Registering supplier invoice data into accounting system
• Managing supplier invoice coding and administer invoice approval workflow, including seeking direct approval from business operations
• Processing of non-PO accounts payable vouchers and month-end accruals
• Processing of three-way match transactions in our financial platform and related month-end accruals
• Ensuring appropriate storage of all scanned invoices on accounting system
• Make sure CoA is correctly applied
• Ensuring supplier statement reconciliation is completed for all suppliers
• Working closely with internal departments to resolve invoice and payment queries
• Maintaining excellent customer relationships through effective and timely communication in the event of queries or disputes on invoices
• Producing and manage aged supplier listing, investigating anomalies and reporting on these to accounting team
• Ensuring best practice across all accounts payable tasks by maintaining current process documentation, and leading implementation of system and process improvements
• Support external/internal audits
• Assist in the financial month & year end closing process
• Other ad-hoc AP duties as required
• Treating all information received as strictly confidential
• Fullfilling all other tasks delegated by the Superior

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Accounting or Finance
• Previous experience in a similar Accounts Payable environment within an organisation or SSC/BPO environment is advantageous
• Computer literacy – Excel, Word and other large enterprise systems is advantageous (e.g. IFS, SAP, Oracle etc.)
• Good command of the English language (spoken & written).