Accounts Payable Manager - Bogota, Colombia - Vantage

Vantage

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Bogota, Colombia

hace 1 semana

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Carolina González

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Descripción

Vantage is a fast-growing, leading global supplier of naturally derived specialty ingredients and formulations that cater to the evolving needs of consumer and industrial markets.

Through our chemistries, our customer focus and our vertically integrated farming, manufacturing, and formulation facilities around the world, we are Enabling Tomorrow's Solutions Today.

With more than 1,000 employees, $1+ billion in sales and a footprint in 13 countries around the world, Vantage is driven by an intense focus on our customers, providing a broad portfolio of customized solutions, formulations and ingredients that are tailored to meet their specific needs.

Under the leadership of Steve Doktycz, a 27-year chemical industry and strategic development veteran, its tenured leadership team represents decades of industry experience coupled with entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for natural chemistries.

Vantage is headquartered in the United States (Deerfield, IL, a Chicago suburb).

Since its inception in 2008, Vantage's continued growth has been realized through a combination of focused commercial efforts, significant capital investment into our manufacturing assets, strategic entry into geographic markets and niche acquisitions to develop our leading portfolio of natural-based specialty ingredients.

Vantage is backed by H.I.G., a leading global alternative investment firm with $43 billion of equity capital under management with a focus on the small and midcap segments of the market, with a minority investment by The Jordan Company.

Key Responsibilities and General Accountabilities:

Oversees the AP processes within the SSC and provides objectives to the team members.
Manages, coordinates and develops/ coaches the SSC AP staff and actively plans the succession to develop and replace individuals effectively.
Proactively manages and monitors KPIs and SLAs to drive accuracy and timeliness of all deliverables.
Handling accounts payable for multiple legal entities, and currencies, expense reports, and period end accruals.
Developing and maintaining relationships with new and existing vendors
Ensuring payments are approved in accordance with corporate policies and internal controls including comparing purchase orders, prices, terms of payment and other charges.
Drive the process of streamlining and improving existing AP procedures
Establishes regular communication to share successes, and challenges or concerns with all SSC Key Stakeholders to ensure issues are identified, tracked and resolved in a timely manner.
With a high priority, identifies, research, develops and implements improvements to existing processes, systems, and procedures in SSC AP processes.
Builds and sustains a high level of cooperation with other departments in the SSC (e.g., GL, AR) as well as with BC partners outside the center.
Maintains strong controls ensuring all group policies and statutory requirements are complied with by the SSC AP team. Elevates the relevancy and timeliness of the control environment.
Supervises payment run process ensuring all suppliers are paid in a timely manner.
Builds a culture of continuous improvement that ensures process flows and standard operating procedures are both kept current and reviewed by all staff and stakeholders, and constantly enhanced and improved.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Strong Finance Acumen
Successful transition project experiences (transition activities into SSC and process progression models).
Working knowledge in ERP (SAP, ) and other finance and support systems.
Experience in a Shared Service environment or similar
Ability to read, write and communicate in English and Spanish in a business setting
Ability to pay close attention to detail and high degree of customer orientation
Strong problem solving and analytical skills
Highly results driven and selfmotivated team player

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: