Accounts Payable Specialist

Founded in Japan in 1887, Kao is passionate about making a difference in people’s lives with our high-quality products and services to create a Kirei Life for all – a beautiful life that respects the needs of our consumers and customers as well as the planet. We never compromise on quality and craft our products with care for the consumer and the environment.  As a company driven by purpose and strong corporate values, we pride ourselves to be listed among the World´s Most Ethical Companies since 16 consecutive years. Our corporate philosophy, the Kao Way, guides us in everything we do – acting with integrity, courageously driving innovation, and treating each other with trust and respect.

This role is for a 12 month fixed term period initially.

The role

The Accounts Payable Specialist is part of the Accounts Payable (AP) team within our EMEA Finance Shared Service Center.  A person in this role will be supporting EMEA Accounting operations by timely processing of invoices across 18 legal entities, resolving queries from internal and external stakeholders, and assisting in any necessary month end tasks.

What You Will Do

• Responsible to register PO (purchase order) and Non-PO (purchase order) invoices, ensuring invoices are approved either via a 3-way match (PO, Goods Receipt, Invoice) or via workflow and prepare them for payment.
• Timely prepare the payment batches to be reviewed and perform all necessary checks
• Responsible for supplier account management, proactively liaising with suppliers or other stakeholder to manage, investigate and periodically perform vendor's statement reconciliation and fix all findings by registering the invoice and credit notes.
• Manage open items report including aging and balance of invoices in OpenText and SAP
• Supporting and training internal stakeholders
• Analyzing GR/IR mismatch with seeking for solution on late payment and missing early payment discount
• Follow month end checklist and ensure all tasks are done accurately as per timeline

What You Will Need:

• Completed Accounting degree at MBO (Dutch system) or higher 
• 2-3 years of relevant experience (preferably in SSC international environment)
• Accounts Payable operations knowledge at multinational companies and experience with 3-way match invoice processing (goods or service).
• Fluent in English (written & spoken)
• Highly adaptable to new environments and change
• Passionate for details
• Positive, customer first, can-do attitude
• Committed and reliable with the company
• Motivated, flexible, reliable and team player

How we work: Having been selected among the World´s Most Ethical Companies for 16 consecutive years, we are a company with a purpose and strong corporate values. We never compromise on quality and craft our products with care for the consumer and the environment. At Kao, each employee can actively shape their job and their career. We work collaboratively to achieve our common goals, always aiming to deliver the best for our customers.

What we offer: A friendly and flexible work environment with competitive salaries, benefits package, ongoing development and the opportunity to enhance your skills and deliver tangible results. At Kao your voice will be heard. Your opinion really counts. We believe that change comes from taking opportunities into your own hands, so we value and reward entrepreneurial thinking and innovation.

Hiring Process: Kao embraces the diversity and the individual personalities of its people because we believe it is diversity that makes us strong. This is why we welcome applications from all areas of the global community. 

Want to learn more: If you feel you are as unique as our products and want to find out why 33,000 people across the globe opted for a career with us please visit our Americas website (https://www.kao.com/americas/en/) or EMEA website (https://www.kao.com/emea/en/)

https://www.kao.com/emea/en/privacy/