ASAP: Senior AP Specialist EMEAMichael Page

Our client stands as a global leader in biotechnology, driven by a profound dedication to reshaping cancer care worldwide.

• Overseeing end-to-end accounts payable operations for multiple EU countries, including VAT compliance review, coding, processing, and payment batch management, while ensuring oversight of outsourced provider payments.
• Collaborating closely with regional business units to address vendor queries and ensure timely payments, while maintaining intensive communication with outsourced providers for accurate payment processing.
• Providing ongoing support to outsourced providers during the transition to insourcing, assisting in issue resolution and process optimization.
• Assisting the EU Finance Team in enhancing AP processing quality related to VAT through training, procedural enhancements, and effective communication with vendors.
• Conducting comprehensive analysis of the procure-to-pay process to identify and implement efficiency improvements, including potential automation initiatives.
• Cultivating and maintaining relationships with both new and existing vendors and internal stakeholders to facilitate smooth operations and collaboration.
• Performing accounting duties such as recording entries (e.g., accruals/prepaids at month-end) and reviewing reconciliation of respective accounts;
• Maintaining Fixed Asset Register for countries of responsibility (CIP, capitalization)
• Maintaining and reconciling IC vendors accounts for EU countries;

* Financial education required: Accounting / Business / Finance
* Experience in a global biotech / pharma company
* Familiar with hybrid Shared Services environment (both internal and external resources)
* Oracle ERP
* PowerQuery / Microsoft Excel expertise
* Business Level fluency (oral and written) in English language necessary