Experienced Accounts Payable Accountant
Extreme Reach, Hungary
Job Description
About Extreme Reach:
Extreme Reach revolutionized the way advertisers control the deployment of their creative and how the media sources those ads to execute campaigns. The company’s creative asset workflow platform, AdBridge, is built upon a decade of innovation and integrates all the paths and processes required by today’s complex media landscape.
Extreme Reach proudly serves the best and biggest brands, agencies, production companies, media destinations, performers and rights owners. With over 200,000 registered users and nearly four million creative assets in its care, ER connects the creative flow between the buy and sell sides of the advertising ecosystem.
Opportunity:
This is an exciting new opportunity at Extreme Reach to join our highly skilled Finance team in the role of Accounts Payable Accountant, based in our Shared Service Center in Budapest.
In this role, you will be responsible for a combination of supplier account creation and maintenance, supplier invoice processing, payment preparation, execution and reconciliation for our subsidiaries.
We are looking for a result driven individual with a passion to be part of a growing fast paced international finance team.
This role requires a hands-on approach with a considerable emphasis on organisation and diligence and relationship building, and the ability to follow processes and an outstanding ability to cooperate with partners/suppliers.
The specialist must be able to manage multi ledgers and keep key stakeholders informed of progress and queries.
Job Responsibilities:
- Compiling and processing of supplier invoices, including regular cost analysis amp; reporting
- Collecting approval of supplier invoices from relevant approver
- Ensuring that coding of supplier invoices and expenses is maintained to a high standard
- Checking statements received from suppliers, identifying invoices that are overdue and/or not received and any payments that have not been allocated by the supplier
- Management of supplier queries, handling phone queries as and when required
- Management of supplier payments as per the schedule
- Daily reconciliation of bank accounts
- Maintenance of supplier accounts amp; creditor ledger
- Analysis of monthly creditor balance movement
- Assistance with general cash management as required
- Participate in the month end/year end closing and reporting requirements
- Review amp; processing of staff expenses
- Review and processing of Company Credit card expenses
- Raising intercompany recharge invoices to different entities of the Company
- Assisting with audit queries
- Handling other areas of finance functions as and when required
Additional Responsibilities:
- Maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the job
- Continually make recommendations for the development of process by working in partnership with key stakeholders
- Work on other tasks and ad-hoc projects, as assigned by the Accounts Payable Team Lead and the Shared Service Centre Lead
- Responsible for maintaining ethical standards of the business including minimising the environmental, health and safety risks in the workplace and responsible for reporting potential risks, real accidents and near misses to relevant managers
- Champions, supports and participates in the businesses team working activities
Key Relationships
External
- Extreme Reach Suppliers
Internal
- Finance and Administration Teams
- Senior Management
Requirements
Education amp; Professional Experience
- Previous experience is essential, 2-3 years of experience in Accounts Payables is required
- SSC experience is an advantage
- College or university degree is a must
- Fluent English is a must
- Sound communication and negotiation and relationship building skills
- Additional European language knowledge is an advantage (French, German, Italian)
- Experience of negotiating with key stakeholders
- Resilience in resolving problems
- Sound understanding of financial processes
- Excellent organizational skills
- Proven experience of working to tight deadlines and being able to prioritize multiple tasks
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Advanced level is essential
- Knowledge of SAP B1 preferred or Oracle NetSuite is preferred
Team Work
- Exhibit strong team membership behavior - i.e. are collaborative, ethical, respectful, use effective communication skills, proactively manage conflict to get the right results, use superior influencing skills, escalate issues appro