Job Title: Analyst, Accounts Payable (Procurement to Pay)

Division: Corporate Finance – Accounting

Location: St. Petersburg, FL - North America Business Service Center

Reports To: Manager, Procurement to Pay

Who We Are:

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity, and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

What You Will Learn:

The Accounts Payable Procurement to Pay (P2P) Analyst supports and maintains procurement and payables (P2P) system applications and processes. Responsible for researching, resolving inquiries related to I2P transactions and adhering to processes, maintaining procure-to-pay policies, relevant standard templates and supporting tools to drive compliance with standard request-to-pay processes, approved P2P channels, and identification of new opportunities to increase efficiency. 

Works with supervisors and managers within Accounts Payable (AP) to identify and ensure that suggestions or recommendations for process improvements are presented for review and possible implementation. Acts as change agent across the Organization by communicating and training affected parties on both standards and tools, as well as promotes leading practices in P2P across the business. Responsible to work with other internal positions to support the development process of common reporting and appropriate tools for performance and compliance monitoring. This position will continuously engage the P2P Management to review P2P performance and key performance indicators and take a leadership role on required actions for improvement.

More specific responsibilities include:

• Research AP process/policy, such as: invoice/payment status, match exception resolution, reporting/document search options
• Partner with other areas of AP Operations (processing, supplier management) to troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Serves as the Organization's Invoice-to-Pay subject matter expert, continuously engage with P2P leadership, and cross functional business clients to drive best practice adoption, optimized system utilization and continuous process improvement outcomes.
• Develop and maintain profound knowledge of P2P application architecture and data structure relationships to implement and maintain system and process improvements.
• Support master data initiatives from the P2P perspective with defining governance procedures and standards for master data set up and maintenance.
• Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and senior management, including presenting project deliverables to steering committees and project sponsors.
• Coordinate assigned activities within the accounts payable function to ensure accurate and timely payment processing using SAP.
• Leverages Celonis data mining for the analysis of late payments root case impacting KPI (POT).
• Function as an AP Champion to ensure proper and consistent compliance with L’Oréal approved policies and procedures.
• Influence and work collaboratively with buyers, vendors, plants, finance, and various business partners to gain resolution on parked and blocked invoices.
• Leverage customer service and communication skills to respond to internal and external customer inquiries including vendor statement reconciliation and procurement issues.
• Be empowered to think outside of the box and offer new and creative solutions and ways of working to improve our global business service center.
• Actively participates in special projects that impact our business goals.
• Ensure timely and accurate resolution of sensitive vendors across multiple locations.
• Become SME in AP Manufacturing processes to deliver training and knowledge development of AP Team members.
• Supports critical and urgent request from vendors, plants, finance, or AP Leadership that requires cross plant analysis.
• Reviewing purchase orders and resolving discrepancies through managing parked & blocked reports to facilitate timely vendor payments.
• Assists with accounting records for audit purposes.
• Ensure all vendor statements are properly reconciled to ensure timely GR/IR review.
• Other related duties as assigned.

What We Are Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Supply Chain Management
• Previous Analytical experience a must
• 2-4 years of experience in Procurement / Sourcing / Accounts Payable / Finance analyst role
• Strong influencing skills that can be used to lead teams and build partnerships with internal resources
• Ability to identify process efficiency improvements and drive implementation cross-functionally
• Demonstrates the ability to develop, document and maintain processes and methods
• Self-confident with an ability to accept and respond to challenges in a positive manner
• Strategic mindset with strong skill to manage change, ambiguity, complexity, and drive for results
• Strong and effective verbal and written communication skills, effectively presenting complex topics in a concise manner to audiences at various levels and in various audience sizes
• Broad understanding of business issues, metrics, organizational linkages and customer value
• Attention to detail along with excellent time management skills
• The ability and desire to work independently and take ownership of your own personal brand
• Ability and passion to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, and ever-changing work environment while multi-tasking
• Intermediate/advanced level proficiency in Microsoft Excel required, including but not limited to working knowledge of v-lookup and pivot tables

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with ERP and OCR systems; SAP/Readsoft experience is highly preferred
• Expertise in End-to-End request-to-pay processes

What’s In It For You:

• Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)
• Hybrid Work Policy (3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home)
• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)
• Learning & Development Opportunities for Career Progression (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

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