Mode of work
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Employment Type
Permanent
Location
On-site
Expertise & Skills
Job description
ERM is the world's largest global pure-play sustainability consultancy, with more than 50 years of market leadership. ERM uses its unique combination of technical depth and commercial acumen to partner with the world's leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges, and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.
With over c8k employees worldwide operating from 170+ offices in 40 countries, ERM is unmatched in its ability to operationalize sustainability across the business lifecycle and at all levels of an organization, which we call our boots to boardroom approach.
The Accounts Payable (AP) team at ERM is a function that resides within the Finance Department, responsible for ensuring payment of ERM's payables. This highly critical team ensures ERM fulfills its financial commitments to its vendors, partners, and employees in a timely and highly reliable manner.
Responsibilities include (but not limited to):
- Monitor AP Vendor and Expense Report inboxes
- Coordinate weekly list for review for Vendor Invoices and Expense Reports
- Process assigned invoices
- Responsible for the proper correction of any invoice or payment errors
- Resolve outstanding issues related to delays in processing
- Manage weekly payment process, including payment uploads
- Conduct regular review of aging to ensure timely payment
- Ensure compliance to ERM policies and procedures, including proper approvals
- Manage vendor set up process
- Manage calendar and fiscal year end processes, including audit requests
Skills Needed:
- Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with both internal and external customers, across all levels and functions
- Ability to work with minimal direction and in a highly collaborative manner to meet required deadlines and perform all necessary tasks
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail to prioritize tasks effectively and complete them accurately
- Highly motivated with strong work ethic to own and drive tasks to full resolution
- Strong computer skills, including Excel and experience using mid-to high-level accounting software packages (e.g. BST, Deltek, Oracle)
- Experience with Rydoo preferred
Requirements:
- A degree in commerce (B.Com) or (M.Com) or equivalent. Additional courses or certifications in accounting or finance can be beneficial.
- Three to five years accounts payable experience, professional services experience preferred
At ERM, sustainability is our business. We are the world's largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance. ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities.
Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it). Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM's purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action.
At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.