Senior Accounts Payable Officer

With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, Southern Africa, Ghana, Philippines, Argentina and Peru, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium Philippines is currently recruiting for a Senior Accounts Payable Officer to join our growing team in Manila. 

Reporting to the Group Finance Manager the Senior Accounts Payable Officer will ensure accurate processing of accounts payable to suppliers and subcontractors in line with company policy and regulatory requirements.

The tasks you'll perform

• Receive, review, process and action high volumes of supplier and subcontractor invoices to meet business and project deliverables.
• Prepare and issue supplier payments within agreed payment terms and approved authority limits.
• Reconcile corporate credit card transactions, ensure supporting documentation and approvals are complete, and follow up outstanding acquittals in line with company policy.
• Coordinate supplier payment runs, urgent payments and payment exception handling, ensuring supporting approvals, banking controls and remittance processes are completed accurately and on time.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders regarding supplier invoices, purchase orders, goods receipts, expenses and payment queries.
• Review and validate project, entity, cost code and tax coding for accuracy prior to posting.
• Assist with month-end close activities, including accruals, reconciliations and reporting of outstanding liabilities.

The expertise you'll bring

• University degree in Accounting or equivalent from a recognised tertiary institution is desirable
• Minimum 5 years’ Accounts Payable experience in a similar or project-based environment.
• Construction, engineering, mining, resources or EPC industry experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in high-volume invoice processing, supplier reconciliations and resolving complex invoice exceptions.
• Experience working with purchase orders, goods receipts, project-based coding and subcontractor or supplier payment processes.
• SAP S4 Hana or similar ERP system experience preferred.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we :

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Provide employees with a variety of additional benefits such as coverage for professional memberships, discount and rewards programs, and much more.   

Lycopodium is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering diversity and maintaining a discrimination free workplace, guided by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Diligence. 

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible care and service to you the candidate, we commit to respond to every applicant.

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