Accounts Payable Analyst, FinOps Payments Team
Job Description
We are looking for a Finance Specialist to join our Americas AP Payments Team focusing payments monitoring, manual wires execution, checks printing process, payment inquiries attendance, failed payments resolution. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, has excellent problem-solving and analytical skills and is always driving for solutions, without compromising accuracy. The candidate needs to have excellent prioritization, communication and organization skills and is able to work independently.
As a Finance Specialist for Americas AP Payments, you will dive deep into the system to understand payments process, bank information and invoice data and classification per business needs, in order to identify payment issues and root causes. You will play a key part in understanding, analyzing and improving the different reasons behind a payment failure and support to build a robust logic to identify areas of improvement as well as prevention on future issues.
Key job responsibilities
Perform root cause analyses on vendor and invoice level.
Identify, analyze and resolve issues related to payment failures, delays or variances.
Support creating a robust detection process by improving the different input reports and look for ways to automate process steps.
Support bank traces, payment inquiries investigations with data analyses and reporting.
Contribute to metrics and reporting.
Drive process standardization by documenting and auditing different process steps.
Interaction with internal stakeholders, vendor managers, financial communication partners, business partners.
Look for ways to automate processes.
Support with analytical work (reports, queries, investigation on tools and system – how can we utilize other input).
Execute audits, deep dives, and special projects in a timely manner while communicating recommendations and findings to management and other stakeholders.
Conduct deep dives, walkthroughs and quality reviews of evidence to resolve complex problems.
The role is based in Heredia, Costa Rica.
Basic Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience in Shared Services Accounts or Accounts Payable.
- Minimum 2 years of experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) in analysis.
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) for both internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) or equivalent productivity software.
- Demonstrated experience in using data to influence business decisions.
- Fluency in both Spanish and English (verbal and written).
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in implementing continuous improvement initiatives within a team environment, demonstrating measurable enhancements to controllership processes and scalability.