Retail AP Senior Accountant

JelentkezemFBT defines, owns, sources and operates efficient and standardized business services for the Group. We are business process professionals, working as a unified organization across finance, customer service, procurement, HR services, tax and other functional areas to fully support in global operations and aims. Our license to operate is dependent on us being able to deliver silent running in the most efficient manner.  As the FBT organization continues to grow and accommodates more, it has the opportunity to deliver additional value in five core areas: 1. Risk and control: Enhancing our business and system controls through improved governance and implementation of global process designs, systems templates and control frameworks.  2. Process effectiveness: Increasing cash and working capital delivery; improved process effectiveness and reliability through delivering an accurate outcome first time.  3. Process efficiency: Driving commonality of global processes and building these into standard templates to be incorporated into our ERP systems implementations and our continuous improvement activities across operational processes. 4. Quality service: Delivering enhanced customer services to the businesses we serve and our customers, through our well-trained, professional people.  5. Capability: Developing future leaders for the organisation through talent management and career mapping and developing deep expertise in the domain of process. Our ambition is to grow in the global convenience retail and mobility segments.  We are aiming to double its convenience gross margin and is also investing massively in convenience and EV charging on retail sites. Retail AP Senior Accountant is responsible to assure that all retail network related costs are processed in time and reflecting correctly in the retail P&L. Also, retail accountant is the first point of contact of the retail network operated in the supported country.  The team’s ambition is to be the centre of excellence for invoice management and query handling with vendors/sites. Key Accountabilities • Review, analyze and process high volume invoices with accuracy.  • Manage a portfolio of vendor accounts and keep them reconciled and cleared.  • Perform daily/weekly invoice postings and related monthly reconciliation – follow and adopt to the monthly business rhythm of the team.  • Complete the actions based on the weekly and monthly control reports.  • Interact in a timely and professional manner with assigned business units, vendors, Outsourced Service Providers and Business Facing Financials.  • Deal promptly with supplier and site related queries in order to secure payments in time• Supervise own portfolio (supplier and stations), inform / involve all relevant collaborators in case of any anomalies detected following the agreed standard processes.  • Collaborate with vendors and internal and external stakeholders of the retail network to resolve issues.  • Conduct analysis and investigation of any occurred incident in relation to the AP processes on assigned portfolio.   • Identify key or high risk business situations and report, escalate following the escalation matrix focusing on solving the issue in a timely manner.  • Use all communication channels to resolve issues and perform daily tasks (e.g.: call suppliers/sites not only send emails) – be able to apply the best appropriate communication channel to be used to achieve the business goal. • Responsible to communicate and collaborate with strategic partner(s) (convenience partner, agents...) of the retail network as single point of contact.  • Adhere to the Team’s regular Key Performance Indicators (KPI)  • Participate in Continuous Improvement efforts - Initiate, raise ideas and propose solutions.  • Performs journal postings in Blackline to ensure cost allocation to sites.  • Interface monitoring. • Support Line Manager / Leads in all projects, systems implementations, strategic topics and any ad hoc activities needed. • Ensure relevant, in-scope process related documentation is updated.  • Adhere with the tasks outlined in the EMS/QMS Systems of GBS Europe