Senior Accounts Payable Specialist

**Company Description**:
IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters-at the Moment of Service. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.
At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.
We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a **global, diverse environment;** you will be joining a **winning team** with a **commitment to sustainability;** and a company where we get things done so that you can **make a positive impact** on the world.
We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can **#MakeYourMoment** so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.
If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.
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Job roles and responsibilities
We are looking for a skilled Sr. Accounts Payable Specialist to join our AP team. Based in Sri Lanka you will be supporting about 20 global subsidiaries, ensuring timely and accurate processing of payables transactions through a full-cycle AP function. You must be able to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while interacting with various stakeholders globally. Flexibility, ability to prioritize both individual and team objectives, and good problem-solving skills are a must. You will be expected to escalate process issues with the various stakeholders, while maintaining a continual improvement mindset.
**This role focuses on Accounts Payable experience in the APJ region as the primary focus and the EMEA region as a secondary focus.**
**What You’ll Do**:
- Process PO and invoices, ensuring correct matching to PO and coding of invoices through COUPA.
- Identify and analyse aged invoices and take corrective action to ensure AP aging is within terms.
- Support employee expenses and reconcile company credit cards through T&E tool - Expensify
- Ensure AP teams comply and enforce the appropriate elements of the P2P policies e.g. T & E and Procurement and escalate as appropriate.
- Transactional process review and sample audit of AP transactions to ensure compliance for approval and coding
- Provide direction on what areas to prioritize such as vendor queries, action overdue balances and invoices on hold.
- Review supplier account reconciliations for major vendors and vendors in dispute
- Provide feedback to the extended AP team on quality and accuracy to give the opportunity of continuous improvement.
- Provide feedback so that we, as an extended team continuously improve our delivery, quality, and performance, highlighting issues to managers to ensure we have standard processes.
- To assist with housekeeping duties such as scanning, archiving and preparation of documents to ensure Tax and/or Statutory compliance
- Provide refresher/new hire training to the business and Finance team members
- Contribute in ad hoc departmental and business projects as required.
**Qualifications**:
- Good understanding of the Procure to Pay process.
- Experience using an ERP system (Netsuite and Coupa preferably) and good Excel skills
- Excellent customer service and problem solving skills
- Ability to clearly communicate in English, verbally and written
- Ability to identify and prioritize issues and be accountable for resolution.
- Good attention to detail
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