Accounts Payable Analyst, Ap Payments

Basic Qualifications- Bachelor's degree (accounting, business administration)- Minimum of 2 years professional experience in Finance (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable), Payments, Treasury or Invoice Entry.- Excellent language skills - English and Spanish.- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.- Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication skills.- Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload.- A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations.- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOK UP, HLOOK UP, filters, basic functions, tables).Job summaryGeneral Job Description:As a Finance Analyst for Americas AP Payments, you will dive deep into the system to understand payments process, bank information and invoice data and classification per business needs, in order to identify payment issues and root causes. You will play a key part in understanding, analyzing and improving the different reasons behind a payment failure and support to build a robust logic to identify areas of improvement as well as prevention on future issues.**Responsibilities**:- Perform root cause analyses on vendor and invoice level.- Identify, analyze and resolve issues related to payment failures, delays or variances.- Support bank traces, payment inquiries investigations with data analyses and reporting.- Contribute to metrics and reporting.- Interaction with internal stakeholders, vendor managers, financial communication partners, business partners.- Support with transactional work (reports, queries, etc).Preferred Qualifications- Additional language skills (Portuguese fluency desired but not required).- Experience with Oracle Financials.- Experience in Bank Platforms management (Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Banco de Chile, HSBC).- SQL skills and/or superior excel skills (macros).- Payments background.- Lean / Six Sigma concepts and certification.- Ability to work under pressure.