Accounts Payable Accountant - Shared Services Center

Job description

PURPOSE

You will be responsible for processing Accounts Payable (AP) transactions through Quintiles PeopleSoft Financial system. In this function your responsibility will be to ensure the information processed into PeopleSoft is in accordance to standard operating procedures (SOPs), task service levels, Sarbanes-Oxley Controls and Unit Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Under supervision, your tasks will include routine accounting services to the business units. You will need to provide process expertise related to accounts payable and payment processing in a global shared service environment.

Are you ready to become our new member of the Quintiles financial shared services center, supporting our global operations in Bratislava? Let's join us and you can be engaged in teams handling various tasks within the accounting department.

RESPONSIBILITIES
· Contact employees and other departments as necessary to request missing information and update invalid data issues and file appropriate documents.
· Identify, track and report accounting data accurately and follow-up on routine issues flagging non-standard issues to line manager.
· Provide assistance to other team members including some mentorship to junior team members, as required to ensure that the group meets all SLAs and targets.
· Provide standard and ad hoc reports as needed.
· Check that appropriate approvals are obtained for accounting purposes.
· Flag problems with existing procedures and systems and make suggestions for improvements.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
·  Fluent English (fluent French or German might be advantage for some roles).
·  Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
·  Attention to detail as well as accurate and efficient data entry skills.
·  Ability to prioritize own workloads to meet deadlines.
·  Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers and managers.
MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
·  High School and 1-2 years experience in office environment or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
·  Experience of working in a Shared Service financial accounting role is a plus.
·  Willingness to learn and understand the end-to-end processes.
·  Knowledge of ERP financial systems and reporting tools, advanced data capture solutions and automated workflow tools (experience with PeopleSoft a plus).
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
·  Extensive use of telephone and face-to-face communication requiring accurate perception of speech.
·  Extensive use of keyboard requiring repetitive motion of fingers.
·  Regular sitting for extended periods of time.
·  May require occasional travel.