Accounting Job - Mandarin speaking Accounts Payable Analyst - London - rj

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Your New Job Title: Mandarin speaking Accounts Payable Analyst

The Skills You'll Need: Fluent Mandarin and English, with relevant Accounts Payable experience.

Your New Salary: Highly competitive depending on experience

Job status: 1 Year FTC, with possibility to go permanent, depending on business needs

Work pattern: Hybrid working, with 1 day WFH

Report to: Accounting Assistant Manager

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

• speak and write fluent Mandarin and English
• have Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable experience
• are happy to take on 1 year FTC (with possibility to go permanent)

If that means this job isn’t a match for you please view our other vacancies for one that may be a better fit.

Accounts Payable Analyst - What You'll be Doing:

• Check and process approved expense claims that are within the company expense policy, in a timely manner in Concur and SAP systems.
• Check and process approved invoices in a timely manner in Concur and SAP systems, ensuring invoices are posted to the correct GL accounts and cost centres accurately.
• Merge SAP doc posting journal, Concur approval and supplier invoice for approval from Financial Reporting Manager and thereafter for payment processing with Treasury team.
• Monitor on a weekly basis invoices and expenses that are still awaiting in the approval workflow process and chase relevant approvers to ensure no delay in the processing of the expense claim or payment of the invoice.
• Prepare recharge invoices within group companies and arrange payment in a timely manner.
• Work with settlement team and treasury team for routine and urgent payment requests.
• Process daily cash clearing journals and liaise with Treasury and Settlements Teams on uncertain transactions and open items not cleared respectively.
• Assist in the set-up on new vendor set-up in the SAP system with our HQ.
• Prepare non-trade accruals for the month-end close.
• Assist in the monthly fixed costs analysis submission to dept. heads and VPs.
• Assist in annual fixed cost budgeting process and cost challenging tasks.
• Assist in the maintenance of Concur administration and mappings to SAP. Keep up-to-date on new updates with Concur through webinars online.
• Assist in the maintenance of new and existing standing orders and post monthly transactions in SAP.
• Other accounts payable related responsibilities.

Accounts Payable Analyst - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Fluent level in written and spoken Mandarin and English
• Relevant AP experience in medium-size companies
• Knowledge of SAP and CONCUR is highly desirable
• Degree or Diploma in Accounting and Finance or equivalent
• Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Ability to prioritise and act quickly to meet deadlines
• Organised and proactive with ability to move things forward without being asked
• Good communication skills, confident in communicating with all levels of the business
• Focused individual with ability to work on own initiative
• Competent with MS Excel

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