Accounts Payable Officer and Expense Management Analyst
Emit · National Capital Region (NCR), Philippines
About The Role
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What you'll do
- Incorporate a customer centric and service excellence approach in all interactions, operating with
professionalism and integrity.
- Respond promptly and accurately to email and phone enquiries from both external and internal
customers, ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times.
- Prioritise work to ensure query resolution is consistently within the required timeframes.
- Assist the wider finance team with the provision of AP information as required, to support project
billing, cashflow forecasting and month end reporting.
- Build connections with the wider finance team and WSP colleagues and seek opportunities to
strengthen the knowledge of AP related policies and procedures across the business.
- Provide information to assist with internal audits as required within the NI-52-109 control
framework.
- Assist with the onboarding of vendors, ensuring proactive and accurate communication with both
vendors and WSP colleagues, ensuring onboarding processes are strictly adhered to.
- Assist with delivering Accounts Payable training for team members, as required.
Invoice Processing and Payments
- Maintain current knowledge of the Delegations of Authority and account coding, ensuring invoices
are appropriately coded and approved.
- Accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices, expenses and direct debit files.
- Prompt and accurate filing of invoices and all related documentation.
- Prepare payment batches for approval, ensuring they are reviewed and finalised without error.
Coordinate to ensure any queries are answered and approvals are completed within the required timeframes.
- Review WSP bank accounts and assist with coding of payment transactions as required.
- Verify vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements.
- Ensure receipting is processed accurately and within required timeframes.
- Assist and support the expense management function, as required.
- Be a team player, assisting with other AP processes, as required.
- Actively seek and deliver continuous improvement through process and system efficiencies,
including assisting with projects as required.
Expense Management System Administration
- Provide the primary support for employees in relation to expense management system and processes
e.g. Queries on using the expense system, coding etc.
- Maintain accurate and up to date administration of the expense management system, including
mapping delegations, preparation of extracts for cash/PCard expenses, identification of issues and risks.
- Maintain current knowledge of the Delegations of Authority, ensuring expenses are appropriately
coded and approved.
- Analyse the expense management system for opportunities to improve purchasing decisions and/or
reduce system risks.
- Analyse transactions, ensuring correct documentation and approvals are provided.
- Maintain awareness of new trends and developments related to the system roadmaps incorporates
new developments as appropriate.
- Seek opportunities for improvements in procedures, with subsequent recommendations and
implementation where approved.
- Ensure regular audits are undertaken and outcomes reported to management, including providing
information to assist with internal audits as required within the NI-52-109 control framework.
- Run regular exception reports, e.g. as against policies and procedures, and take appropriate action.
- Prepare reports and analysis of expenses, and usage outcomes and performance.
What we will love about you
- Preferably minimum of 3 years of Expense Management
and/or Accounts Payable experience within a large organisation.
- Relevant tertiary qualification preferred.
- Experience working within a large organisation in a
customer focused role.
- General accounting knowledge, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Expense Management and reconciliations.
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly present ideas and information.
- Able to work effectively and competently with people at all levels; within and external to the organisation.
- Computer literate; proficient in Windows, MS Word/Excel other Microsoft Office applications and online banking.
- Models WSP Guiding Principles.
- Strong organisational ability to optimise and prioritise conflicting demands in a busy environment, to achieve deadlines and see responsibilities through to completion.
- Commercial and a level of maturity needed to understand business needs and drivers.
- Client centric approach.
- Resilient, comfortable with change and ambiguity.
- Ability to work collaboratively and demonstrated capability
to perform effectively as part of a team across a matrix type structure.
- Results orientated, with a reputation for, and demonstrated achievement of, key strategic priorities.
- Active commitment to continuous personal improvement.
- A team player and considers the views of others.
- Ensures that confidentiality is respected and maintained at all times.
- High levels of motivation and energy.
- Consistently demonstrates trustworthiness, integrity, professionalism and honesty.
- High emotional intelligence and self-awareness of strengths and potential areas for development.
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What you'll do
- Incorporate a customer centric and service excellence approach in all interactions, operating with
professionalism and integrity.
- Respond promptly and accurately to email and phone enquiries from both external and internal
customers, ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times.
- Prioritise work to ensure query resolution is consistently within the required timeframes.
- Assist the wider finance team with the provision of AP information as required, to support project
billing, cashflow forecasting and month end reporting.
- Build connections with the wider finance team and WSP colleagues and seek opportunities to
strengthen the knowledge of AP related policies and procedures across the business.
- Provide information to assist with internal audits as required within the NI-52-109 control
framework.
- Assist with the onboarding of vendors, ensuring proactive and accurate communication with both
vendors and WSP colleagues, ensuring onboarding processes are strictly adhered to.
- Assist with delivering Accounts Payable training for team members, as required.
Invoice Processing and Payments
- Maintain current knowledge of the Delegations of Authority and account coding, ensuring invoices
are appropriately coded and approved.
- Accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices, expenses and direct debit files.
- Prompt and accurate filing of invoices and all related documentation.
- Prepare payment batches for approval, ensuring they are reviewed and finalised without error.
Coordinate to ensure any queries are answered and approvals are completed within the required timeframes.
- Review WSP bank accounts and assist with coding of payment transactions as required.
- Verify vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements.
- Ensure receipting is processed accurately and within required timeframes.
- Assist and support the expense management function, as required.
- Be a team player, assisting with other AP processes, as required.
- Actively seek and deliver continuous improvement through process and system efficiencies,
including assisting with projects as required.
Expense Management System Administration
- Provide the primary support for employees in relation to expense management system and processes
e.g. Queries on using the expense system, coding etc.
- Maintain accurate and up to date administration of the expense management system, including
mapping delegations, preparation of extracts for cash/PCard expenses, identification of issues and risks.
- Maintain current knowledge of the Delegations of Authority, ensuring expenses are appropriately
coded and approved.
- Analyse the expense management system for opportunities to improve purchasing decisions and/or
reduce system risks.
- Analyse transactions, ensuring correct documentation and approvals are provided.
- Maintain awareness of new trends and developments related to the system roadmaps incorporates
new developments as appropriate.
- Seek opportunities for improvements in procedures, with subsequent recommendations and
implementation where approved.
- Ensure regular audits are undertaken and outcomes reported to management, including providing
information to assist with internal audits as required within the NI-52-109 control framework.
- Run regular exception reports, e.g. as against policies and procedures, and take appropriate action.
- Prepare reports and analysis of expenses, and usage outcomes and performance.
What we will love about you
- Preferably minimum of 3 years of Expense Management
and/or Accounts Payable experience within a large organisation.
- Relevant tertiary qualification preferred.
- Experience working within a large organisation in a
customer focused role.
- General accounting knowledge, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Expense Management and reconciliations.
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly present ideas and information.
- Able to work effectively and competently with people at all levels; within and external to the organisation.
- Computer literate; proficient in Windows, MS Word/Excel other Microsoft Office applications and online banking.
- Models WSP Guiding Principles.
- Strong organisational ability to optimise and prioritise conflicting demands in a busy environment, to achieve deadlines and see responsibilities through to completion.
- Commercial and a level of maturity needed to understand business needs and drivers.
- Client centric approach.
- Resilient, comfortable with change and ambiguity.
- Ability to work collaboratively and demonstrated capability
to perform effectively as part of a team across a matrix type structure.
- Results orientated, with a reputation for, and demonstrated achievement of, key strategic priorities.
- Active commitment to continuous personal improvement.
- A team player and considers the views of others.
- Ensures that confidentiality is respected and maintained at all times.
- High levels of motivation and energy.
- Consistently demonstrates trustworthiness, integrity, professionalism and honesty.
- High emotional intelligence and self-awareness of strengths and potential areas for development.
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