ASAP: Senior AP Specialist EMEA

• 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

• remote work for 4 days per week
• international environment

Michael Page