Accounts Payable Analyst with 8+ years of experience in efficiently managing financial processes, maximizing accuracy and reducing operational costs.
Strong focus on customer service and effective vendor relationships, ensuring compliance and efficiency in payment processes, with experience in account reconciliations and payment monitoring, with skills in reporting and data analysis.
• GR/IR reconciliation, clean-up and continuous monitoring with root cause analysis.
• Creating and monitoring effective controls for all intercompany payments tied to GRIR.
• 3-way matching of invoices to PO's.
• Interaction with management and other departments for invoice resolution.
• Analyze, interpret and present large volumes of data.
• Work with planners and/or buyers to resolve discrepancies. Assist in the implementation of standardized process and procedures as well as support initiatives to increase efficiencies and drive continuous improvement.
• Apply financial and operating controls in compliance with financial schedules, code of conduct, and internal procedures.
• Coordinate teammates to get daily target and manage the daily workflow related to all GRIR activities to guarantee the quality defined for BBS Structure.
• Process / upload purchase order uploads as provided by supply planning.
• Process / upload advance shipping notifications to create inbound documents in SAP as provided by supply planning.
• Reconciliation of vendor accounts and their balances.
• Payment proposal execution.
• Payment application in system.
• Resolve escalated payment issues with assigned vendors.
• Assist and support accounting manager in their tasks.
• Prepares monthly accounts payable register and related reports in a timely manner.
• Attend internal and external customers.
• Manage and evaluate AP Down Payments. Contact people who is involve in the process.
• Creation and updating of process manuals.
• Vendors revision and approval.
• Registration and control of USA invoices.
• Registration and payment of Car Allowance.
• Invoice processing (three-way match).
• Payments to employees, local suppliers, foreign and intercompany of company.
• Banking Compensation payments
• Training / Onboarding
• I was in charge of Accounts Payable process in Miami.
• Payments to employees, local suppliers, foreign and intercompany of company.
• Banking Compensation payments, Urgent Payments and Direct Debits.
• Priority Report: Payment Proposal each week.
• Monthly production metrics and controls user payments.
• In charge of migrations process payments from Brightstar Mexico.
• SSC Bridgestone, which is the financial center that provides operations for the Americas (North America, Central America, South America).
• I had in charge a little part of migrations of Costa Rica (exteriors payments).
• Treasury process in Costa Rica and treasury's BATO Shared Services Center.
• Payments to employees, local suppliers, foreign and intercompany of both companies.
• Controls of petty cash accounting of BATO.
• Preparation of daily position for investment funds and accounting balances.
• Bank statements, for statements from banking portals to the daily settlements of SAP accounting for reviewing, to credit and debit of the application.
• Banking Compensation payments.
• Sing in SAP and charge the Exchange rates.
• Solution provider of inquiries (in SAP statements, payment dates, payments in general).
• Different reports: Projection comparison vrs real month expenses.
• Receive invoices processed by suppliers and classify them.
• Once the original invoices were classified, the invoices (copies) that did not reach the project were processed.
• The registration of each of the invoices was started.
• Once the invoices were registered and reviewed, they were posted in the system for payment.
• The original is paired with the copy, and a sum is added up for total payment.
• Checks are made once a week, in dollars and colones and urgent payments.
• Answering inquiries from suppliers, problem solving.
• Make a report of what is to be paid for Financial Management.
Performance monitoring
Data analysis
Financial modeling
Accounts payable management
ERP knowledge
Expense reporting and analysis
Attention to detail
Account reconciliation
Budget control
Communication skills
Team work Customer Service