Accounts Payable Officer
Ma Financial Group
Accounting & Finance
Metro Manila, Philippines
Posted on May 7, 2025
ROLE PURPOSE
Working as part of a high performing, commercially focused finance team, the Accounts Payable Officer is responsible for processing invoices and payments in accordance with company guidelines.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
General Accounts Payable
- Ensuring timely and accurate processing of accounts payable invoices focusing on ensuring the correct use of financial dimensions including legal entities, projects, general ledger account codes and cost centres.
- Monitoring approval workflows and ensuring appropriate and timely approval of invoices for payment.
- Accurate completion of payment runs within cycle periods.
- Completing and ensuring accuracy of key vendor statement reconciliations including reconciling to general ledger.
- Monitoring and assisting with updating supplier master data in the accounts payable system.
- Support Accounts Payable Team Leader with month-end close activities, monthly reporting and period end financial reporting
Communication
- Maintaining open communication internally.
- Responding to internal and external queries in a timely and organised manner.
Other
- Ad-hoc tasks as required by the business.
PRE-REQUISITE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
- Strong understanding of an end-to-end accounts payable process, with solid understanding of general ledger financial dimension coding requirements, and experience with multiple entity accounting.
- Accounting experience or qualifications, or studying towards a relevant qualification.
- 2+ years of experience in Accounts Payable function ideally in environment with high volume of invoices and/or multi-site locations.
- Intermediate excel skills and computer literacy.
- High level organizational skills with an excellent eye for detail and accuracy, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment taking ownership and responsibility for delivering against deadlines.
- Ability to work autonomously when required and handle work with accountability.
- Excellent verbal (in person and on phone) and written communication skills, to maintain strong relationships within finance as well as across all levels of corporate and business stakeholders.
- Willingness to take on any task, be flexible with your approach, have a can-do attitude, be adaptable and think of solutions that deliver results.
- Experience in SAP Concur (Invoice & Expense), Bepoz, Cooking The Books (CTB), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations or similar is desirable.