Accounts Payable Specialist - German speaker

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities

A sneak peek into this role:

• IBM is looking for a self-driven and highly motivated Accounts Payable Specialist with proven experience to join our IBM Procurement Services team for one of IBM"s key clients in the Germany.
• As an Accounts Payable Specialist, you will be supporting back office requirements which includes but not limited to supporting different team members as well as stakeholders

Why you’ll love your job:

• Schedule the payment, review payment proposals, and process the payment run.
• Handle both manual, urgent and automatic payment requests.
• Validate duplicate postings via ACL.
• Vendor master creation, changes, verification, and cleansing.
• Vendor Reconciliation.
• Be involved in handling queries for vendor statement reconciliation through calls and emails.
• Identify duplicate records for Vendor Master Maintenance, ensuring accurate invoice receipt, verification, and processing.
• Prioritize the processing of urgent/aging invoices
• Record / quality check of invoices (both Purchase Order-Based and Non-Purchase Order-Based)
• Coordinate with various stakeholders, obtain coding and approval, and resolve issues related to blocked invoices. Ensure payment and expense entries are posted in the accounting software on a timely basis.
• Process travel and expense claims, manage payments, resolve duplicate payment issues, and verify and run payment proposals.
• Adhere to client SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and timelines.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

What you will bring to the team:

• Minimum of 2-4 Years of experience in Accounts Payable.
• Experienced in payments, invoice posting, vendor management, including query resolution, and vendor reconciliation
• Demonstrated expertise in managing payment reporting and reconciliation activities.
• GERMAN or ITALIAN language is a must

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience with the following are bonus points, but not necessary, you can learn them at IBM:

• IT skills: Basware, SAP, MS Office, SharePoint
• Experience with dashboards and reporting tools

In return we provide you with:

• Dynamic, diverse, inclusive, and supporting environment
• Professional, skill - growth opportunities, reskilling possibility
• Access to worldwide leading technologies
• Agile office area
• Hybrid working model
• Competitive compensation and benefit package including healthcare

And don't worry if you don't tick every single box in the requirements. We’re always looking to hire for potential and the right mindset – so we'd still love to hear back from you.

Our awards why you might be a proud IBMer:

• Randstad: Most Attractive SSC Employer in 2020
• Family Friendly Workplace Award (2018, 2019, 2020)
• Responsible Employer recognition (2018-2021)
• Most Attractive Employer (3rd) (2020)
• Disability-Friendly Workplace Recognition (2010-2020)
• Disability-Friendly Workplace Best Employee & Role Model Employee Award (2021)
• Stevie Awards for our Teams & Professionals (2018, 2019, 2021)
• Hungarian Outsourcing Association CSR Award (2021)

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