Source to Pay - Accounts Payable - Senior Associate
About us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About the Function
Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We're part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.
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Whether we're utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future - no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we'll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.
About the team: Payments
About the role: Payments
Role Responsibilities
- Having strong End to End Payments process knowledge
- Handle payments team & ensure zero defect processing at the time of Payment run
- Ensure timely and compliant processing of all payments especially statutory, utility, urgent payments
- Managing workloads during BOT failures, if required work around need to be put in place to ensure timely payments
- Ensure preparation of the required documentation set to be sent to Bank to initiate foreign payments. Inform market team in case of any deviations
- Verify the expense type of non-PO expenses as per delegation of authority and add additional approvers if needed
- Verify the supporting documents for travel expense claims and adjust the deviations if applicable. Inform employee in case of any deviations
- Ensures all work is performed in accordance with set KPIs and SLAs
- Excellent troubleshooting skills, proactive root cause analysis for recurring issues and ensure timely escalation where required.
- Coach newcomers and ensure knowledge management, build and retain knowledge base within team
- Develop great business partnering with the market, internal and external stakeholders
- Highlighting the issues to the right contacts and getting the issues fixed on priority.
Leadership Responsibilities: Position works in the PTP team and teamwork is essential. Demonstrate Diageo leadership standards.
- Manage people for success
- Build and inspire Global Payments teams with clear purpose, accountabilities, performance goals and trust
- Consistently deliver great performance
- Demonstrate brilliant execution, be thorough and apply high standard in everything you do
- Understand the controls and governance required in STP area
- Find Solutions
- Develop and apply a great understanding of the business to your work
- Generate ideas and move them to action
Experience / skills required
- Finance Degree level
- Knowledge of accounting processes & Chart of Accounts requirements.
- Minimum 4 to 6 years of Financial experience in a multinational (ideally multicultural/multilingual) corporate environment, with in depth exposure to process improvement and SAP preferred.
- Proven experience of building, developing, and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders.
- Internal controls awareness.
- A deep accounting background
- Experience in management of remote team is an advantage.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are an added advantage.
- Excellent English
- MS applications & SAP
Flexible Working Statement
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Rewards & Benefits Statement: Payments
Diversity statement
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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