Accounting Associate PtP

Job Summary

We are now looking for a professional Accounting Junior Associate Purchase to Payment who will perform execution of continuous improvement for all processes associated with purchase-to-pay (PtP) and ensure end-to-end daily activities defined into Accounting  and compliance with all country rules and regulations. You will work directly with regional and local teams with operational/tactical accounting activities.

The position is based in Panama City, Panama.

Tetra Pak is not sponsoring work visas or relocation for this position.

What you will do

As an Accounting Associate Junior PtP you will: 
 

• Process Supplier invoices: Code Invoices for posting for all Americas companies and post invoices for 3 major companies for Indirect goods and services. Perform compliance verification/approval and quality review on the postings. 
• Post incoming invoices correctly and according to the necessity.  
• Resolve the issues of invoices pending to post as necessary, contact other teams such as tax team, supplier management team, creating a good relationship with them to solve problems quickly. 
• Invoice Posting Query Management: be able to respond timely to the headquarters team about the invoices pending for posting and its problems and make corrections as necessary on time.  
• Assure that the best practice for the activity is in place, meaning making sure the process is being followed correctly and the necessary activities are done in feasible time according to the process necessity.  
• Participate in reconciliation activities of inter-company mismatches together with the payments team to solve the problems of posting for the invoices to be paid and pending to be paid and why.  
• Support external and internal auditors 
• Collaborate with the team on the work life balance, be part of the team productivity doing the work on time and form 
• Be able to organize the agenda to perform the all the activities, be communicative to resolve the issues  
• Work to promote the global metrics according to what is assigned to you 
• Execute continuous improvement methodologies and deliver improvements 
• Adopt global process, best practices and related improvements 
• Update/create as needed quality training material for users 
• Drive process simplification 

We believe you have

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or any related fields. 
• Good experience in Accounting/ Finance related areas  
• Advanced English and Spanish 
• Meet deadlines specially on month-end  
• SAP knowledge is required 
• Teamwork collaboration 
• Intermediate proficiency in Excel is required.
• Experience with Power BI is a plus.