Senior Accounts Payable Clerk

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ABOUT THE ROLE

As a member of the Accounts Payable Team, responsibilities include carefully reviewing and understanding information to enable correct master data creation, reviewing complex vendor invoices for proper G/L coding and matching against purchase orders to facilitate payment. The Senior Accounts Payable Clerk will assist with troubleshooting on invoice processing issues and follow up with relevant parties for resolution. This position will contribute to the overall objectives of the Accounting Department.

Key Accountabilities include:

• Review and analyze submitted invoices and goods receipts to ensure proper coding
• Manage VIM workspace and coordinate with the business as required
• Maintain accurate master data for vendors including tax information
• Interpret and follow banking guidelines for setup of vendor master
• Collaborate with internal and external customers in other countries
• Ensure documents flow from Purchase Order system to SAP
• Reconcile vendor statements as assigned, including branch statements
• Provide excellent and prompt customer service to internal and external clients
• Other duties as assigned

ABOUT YOU

• Understand working with foreign currencies and associated banking requirements
• Experience dealing with customers and/or vendors and utilizing professional verbal and electronic communcation
  Ability to effectively prioritize work items and demonstrate consistent timely responsiveness to internal and external stakeholders
  Requires technical know-how and broad understanding of Accounts Payable function
• Accurate data entry skill; excellent spreadsheet skills (VLOOKUP/Pivot tables)
• SAP ECC and/or S4/HANA experience desirable but not required

BENEFITS  

We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days of vacation time that rises with service, 8 sick days, plus floating holidays, personal days, company holidays, and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies. 

We care for you and your dependents by offering health, dental, and vision insurance plans to our full-time employees. Each plan has multiple levels of coverage to fit your needs and has a high level of contribution made by OUP. In addition, we offer Employee Assistant Programs for all full-time employees, regardless of whether you elect in health insurance. We also offer life insurance and disability insurance. 

We help make your money go further by providing a non-elective contribution on your behalf to your retirement plan of 7% of your salary and a matching contribution to the retirement plan of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions on based earnings.

Please submit a cover letter with your application.

Position Location: This role can be hybrid, based out of Cary, NC (2 times a week in office).

GJC Level: S3 (for internal purposes only) 

Salary: $35,700-$51,000 dependent on skills and experience