Accounts Payable Analyst

**ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ANALYST**

**DEPARTMENT**

This Analyst role is vacant within corporate Finance subdepartment GFO (Global Finance Operations) P2P Invoice Management-Europe, global financial operations. In Europe this department consists of 7 employees: 1 Specialist, 2 Senior Analysts and 3 Analysts, all reporting to the Senior Manager.

Key aspect is intensive collaboration with procurement and SCM-departments as well as other stakeholders within the procure-to-pay processes like budgetholders, colleagues within Treasury and other finance departments, tax-department, goods receivers etc.
**Please note: close to native communication skills of Dutch or Spanish (location-based) is a must have.**

**JOB PURPOSE**

For scope of all European legal entities, both PETCHEM- as well as SHPP-business (65 legal entities):

- process all of the incoming invoices, both purchase order as well as not purchase order related in such a way that all issues have been solved or have been escalated in a correct way to the impacted stakeholder in the process
- Prepare, check and perform all payment runs in scope, in line with all requirements
- Contribute to correctly, completely and timely execution of other operational responsibilities like handling of accounts payable related central mailboxes, corrections, masterdata requests
- Act as contact person for both internal (procurement / SCM / tax-dpt / business) and external stakeholders / suppliers

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Daily processing of incoming vendor invoices via the SAP Invoice Management tool ending up in predefined workflow exceptions (according to the system configuration),where the team will be measured on correctness and timeliness of processing (being pro-active and solution driven)
- Execute the relevant activities to prepare, run and check the payment runs / payment exceptions including taking proper (correction) actions and / or escalation to proper stakeholders when needed,, amongst which IM-colleagues, Treasury department, Masterdata team
- Initiate and monitor creation of non-PO vendors as well as of any other relevant masterdata changes for existing vendors (mainly bankdata and VAT-numbers)
- Collect recurring operational issues, report to align and discuss with Senior Analysts and Specialist within IM-team
- Feel and act responsible for all activities in scope of GFO P2P IM Europe-team, including support and / or take over activities from direct colleagues when and where needed

**MINIMUM EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS**
- Min. Bachelor degree within Finance / Economics
- Basic knowledge of Procure to pay-processes and especially the roles & responsibilities of Accounts Payable within these processes
- Fluently verbal and writing knowledge & skills of English next to Dutch or Spanish close-to-native language (depending on the location)
- Good knowledge of Microsoft tools Outlook / Word and Excel
- Basic knowledge of VAT-guidelines in different European countries and able to aply them in correct way during invoice handling
- Working effectively and constructively with others with a positive mindset; establishing and maintaining good working relationships, committed to the team and targets set (collaboration, customer focused)
- Maintaining stable performance under pressure or opposition (such as time pressure or job ambiguity); handling stress in a manner that is acceptable to others and the organization
- Excellent social and analyzing skills; used to and willing to work in a virtual environment
- Flexible; willing and able to easily adapt to changes (in scope / systems / procedures etc.)
- Eager to learn
- Ideally, approx. 2-3 years of general working experience in an accounting environment. Fresh graduates with first working experience or internships within accounting also welcomed
- At least 1-2 years of relevant SAP experience( transactional processing & FI/CO + basic knowledge of MM)
- Problem analyses and resolution, acting in an organized way

**FURTHER INFORMATION**

This role to be executed fulltime, where partially working from home will be allowed.

Interested in this position?

Please be informed that a reference check, an employment verification and E-assessment are part of our recruitment process. A Certificate of Good Conduct can be requested depending on the level of the role in our organization and/or function, allowing us to request depending on local regulations.

Responses from employment agencies will not be considered.

**ABOUT SABIC**

SABIC is a global diversified chemicals company, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It manufactures on a global scale in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, making distinctly different kinds of products: chemicals, commodity and high performance plastics, agri-nutrients and metals.

Production in 2022 stood at 61 million metric tons.

In Europe, we have over 5,000 professionals running multiple world-scale production sites and 4 technology and innovation centers. We are present i