Accounts Payable Accountant

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  

Overall mission:

• The purpose of this position is to ensure all vendor invoices are paid on time and related -Accounts Payable (AP) tasks are maintained.
• Improvement of responsible AP processes.

Contacts: Regional Finance Managers, Suppliers, internal stakeholders, PtP HelpDesk Team, PtP RawMat and IM&S R&F Teams, FiCo Team

• You will be reporting to the Accounts Payable Team Lead

Main responsibilities:

• Process and park RawMat, IM&S, freight, contract & non-PO vendor invoices
• Follow-up on parked items, resolve payment issues
• Perform reconciliations – GL, vendor account
• Perform invoice/credit memo corrections
• Monitor and resolve open items and decrese debit balance
• Answer external (supplier) and internal (local business) queries
• Organise / Participate in internal and external query resolution calls
• Follow and apply all relevant internal audit & business compliance guidelines, controls and policies
• Analyze root causes of re-occurring errors
• You will run standard and ad-hoc reports
• Make AP Team Lead / AP Manager aware of problems/deviations
• Help maintain training materials and perform trainings on AP-related topics
• Perform any other tasks defined by the line manager or above

Education / Primary Qualification:

• Diploma: degree preferably in Finance/Economics
• Languages: English and French writing and verbal proficiency
• Professional experience: 2+ years relevant experience

Technical skills :}

• Skills: SAP, MS Office

Our benefits:

• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Great compensation package including bonus and cafeteria
• Private health insurance
• Career development opportunities
• Extended yearly health check
• Free coffee/tea
• Access to exclusive perfumes & employee shop with discounts

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.