Senior Accounts Payable Specialist
uniQure is dedicated to bring innovative therapies or unmet medical needs to patients. In doing so each function in uniQure is directly or indirectly responsible for the lives of patients. This responsibility should be part of our day-to-day working life by (i) living up to high quality standards and (ii) by recognizing the sense of urgency in areas of high medical need.
This role will have end-to-end responsibility for operating the global accounts payable process, including vendor invoice processing, payment distribution/processing, 3-way match process and related month-end closing processes. Support cross functional business partners to resolve purchase order, invoicing and payment issues. Work with external auditors related to quarterly and year-end audits. Additional accounts payable responsibilities include, month-end accruals and accounts payable metrics and analysis reporting. Perform additional accounting and reporting tasks as required to support the department.
Key result areas (major duties, accountabilities and responsibilities)
- Organize and sort incoming mail in preparation for processing
- Review incoming e-mails from the A/P mailbox and perform appropriate action
- Secure approvals of invoices according to company policy
- 3-way match preparation of, purchase orders, receivers and invoices
- Scan invoices via Elvy DS and record in Exact AP module
- Analyze and select vendors for payment (ACH, On-line, CTX, Check and Wire)
- Prepare vendor payment file and submit for approval
- Support the accounting and processing of employee expense reports
- Responsible for record keeping and organization of A/P invoices.
- Support the external auditors in periodic testing and account analysis requests.
- Receives and verifies invoices, and ensuring that transactions comply with financial policies and procedures, account codes, in addition to having required approval.
- Close A/P month end, run closing reports
- Prepare and enter journal entries for A/P accruals for month end
- Maintain various P2P tracking tools
- Produce monthly Accounts Payable reports
- Perform other accounting, financial and administrative tasks as may be required to back-up and support the accounting team
- Associates or BS degree in Accounting or Finance
- Experience with both manual as well as mid-tier ERP system
- Demonstrated full cycle experience including 3-way match Accounts Payable experience
- Proficient written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent collaboration and customer service
- Accounting skills and strong accounts payable proficiency (required)
- Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Outlook, Word (required)
- General Ledger or Accounts Payable systems (required)
- Experience with actual business functions of a company (preferred)
- Proper oral communication; speaks clearly, listens respectfully (required)
- Good written communication; reviews work for spelling and grammar (required)
- Exceptional organization skills (required)
- Completes all administrative tasks in assigned times (required)
- Strong attention to detail (required)
- Team Player (required)
- Development of written policies and procedures (recommended)
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