Team Lead, Accounts Payable

Education and Experience:

• University degree in Finance, Business, Accounting or related area
• Minimum 3 years of experience performing general accounting activities

Skills and Ability:

• Ability to verify and process both purchase order and non-purchase order corporate vendor invoices using DAX;
• Ability to verify and process employee’s business related expense reimbursements;
• Processes corporate vendor/employee (non-payroll) payments (cheques, EFTs and wires);
• Maintains accurate and current transactional supporting backup, vendor/customer accounts, outstanding payments/receivables;
• Provides assistance in year-end and miscellaneous financial audits/Access to Information requests with data/backup retrieval;
• Generates miscellaneous financial reports for management/other Finance stakeholders;
• Responds to internal and external inquiries in a timely and professional manner;
• Resolves complex issues in the processing of invoices/expense reports raised by any Financial Clerks in DAX or Chrome River;
• Leads the yearly archiving of the files by coordinating the process and preparing all the vendor files;
• Ensures that specimen cards are provided when new delegation of authority is given to new spending/payment approvers;
• Collaborates gathering information to meet Parliamentary Inquiries.
• English is essential. Bilingualism is an asset.

Knowledge:

• Understands and researches any system issues that arise and tests any new functionalities being rolled out by our information technology team. Works closely with the internal control team and participates in the documentation of any new functionalities as well as identify any irregularities in the performance of the systems by preparing scripts and providing details and explanations of the problematic issues imposed by DAX or Chrome River;
• Leads and coordinates all of the accounts payable and employee expense payment cycles. This includes running the preview for the payment runs and organizing the payment journal list and invoices;
• Ensures appropriate coding of sales taxes on the invoices for recovery and remittance purposes;
• Performs as the Chrome River system administrator and are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of this systems accounting tables;