Ferguson

Accounts Payable Analyst

Ferguson

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $2,475 - $4,766 per month

Job Level

Junior

About the role

  • The Accounts Payable Analyst (Financial Cash Disbursements Analyst) will help handle all financial disbursements for indirect and direct payables, which total more than $1.5B per month.\n
  • This role will fully understand the procure to pay cycle but will focus on the cash disbursement side.\n
  • This role will ensure the daily operations of the FCD team and provide strategic initiative and process improvement.\n
  • Location: This role is open to remote work across the United States. Working east coast hours is required.\n
  • Research and analyze check file processes using established guidelines and resources to ensure they are processed with the highest degree of efficiency.\n
  • Work with a variety of software programs and have strong attention to details.\n
  • Enter domestic and foreign wires. Work with Accounting group to resolve outstanding items on the bank statement.\n
  • Assist in internal and external audits by providing vital documentation and reports.\n
  • Send weekly reports to the appropriate departments for errors, critical issues, frozen vendors, manual checks, and other applicable information stemming from the payment cycles.\n
  • Exhibit understanding of three-way match processes, vendor discounts, and payment terms.\n
  • Work autonomously in completing all assigned tasks and ensuring other check processes are being performed according to guidelines.\n
  • Identify and resolve issues related to vendor invoices, payment discrepancies, and other accounts payable matters.\n
  • Develop and implement strategies to streamline disbursements processes and enhance efficiency.\n
  • Arrange the division of payment files to take on those with the highest rate of immersion needed to protect discounts and ensure all work is completed thoroughly.\n
  • Identify and resolve ways to preserve discounts that would be missed throughout a standard processing cycle.\n
  • Take on administrative functions outside of the disbursements process that are pertinent to the day-to-day operations of the department.\n
  • Generate and communicate presentations to large groups.\n
  • Ensure awareness of cross-functional policies and procedures.\n
  • Obtain and analyze quantitative and qualitative data of business processes to determine solutions and promote data driven decisions.\n
  • Collaborate and communicate with internal and external business partners on findings and areas needing improvement.\n
  • Analyze processes and workflows to understand value chain, input/output, and to improve and/or automate business performance.\n
  • Monitor key performance indicators, determine gaps, and recommend/implement change management techniques for efficiency and process improvements.\n
  • Conduct training.\n
  • Prepare departmental reports or charts.\n
  • Perform other duties or special projects as assigned that are specific to the essential operations of Financial Cash Disbursements.

Requirements

  • College degree preferred.\n
  • Minimum of 1-3 years’ experience within the payment processing space or the equivalent and exposure to other functions of the AP process preferred.\n
  • Effective analytical, reconciliation and reasoning skills to include summarizing information and clearly identifying key elements, trends, results or relationships.\n
  • Identifies source of the challenge and exercises initiative while using good judgment to both make decisions and provide solution.\n
  • Ability to handle and analyze large amounts of data accurately while maintaining timelines/deadlines/resources adjusting with job objectives.\n
  • Strong use of Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, Access, etc.), with Excel being intermediate.\n
  • Strong attention to detail and excellent interpersonal skills.\n
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.