Accounts Payable Analyst – Mid Level
📍 Region: Latin America
🧾 Position Purpose
The Accounts Payable Analyst – Mid Level supports Treasury and Finance operations across Latin America by executing, monitoring, and continuously improving Accounts Payable processes in a controlled, compliant, and digitally enabled environment.
Compared to a junior role, this position requires greater autonomy, analytical judgment, and ownership, particularly over bank and intercompany reconciliations, payment execution, internal controls, and process improvements.
✅ Key Responsibilities
- Execute domestic and intercompany (IC) payments in accordance with approved calendars, authorization matrices, and internal controls.
- Prepare, analyze, and resolve bank reconciliations, ensuring timely and accurate month end closing.
- Perform intercompany reconciliations across LATAM entities, investigating and resolving differences in coordination with Accounting and counterparties.
- Monitor late payment penalties, interest, and delays, identifying root causes and proposing corrective actions.
- Manage petty cash, fixed funds, and employee advances, including foreign currency advances when applicable.
- Operate Accounts Payable automation tools (e invoicing, OCR, approval workflows), ensuring accurate data and timely exception handling.
- Analyze and resolve invoice and payment exceptions in collaboration with Procurement, Accounting, and internal stakeholders.
- Execute and document SOX and internal controls related to payments, bank accounts, and intercompany transactions.
- Support internal and external audits, providing documentation, explanations, and timely responses.
- Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of invoice to pay, payment, and reconciliation processes.
- Prepare and analyze AP, payment, and intercompany KPIs (payment timeliness, open items, penalties).
- Act as a key point of contact for internal stakeholders and suppliers regarding payment status, reconciliations, and invoice issues.
- Support corporate credit card controls and reconciliations, ensuring compliance with internal policies across the region.
- Identify and escalate risks related to errors, duplicate payments, fraud, or intercompany mismatches.