Accounts Payable Associate

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Group revenues in 2022 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC).

Our search for better is changing the lives of our customers. It’s changing the careers of our people too - creating new challenges and opportunities all the time. We’re a business that never stands still. Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as an Account Payable Associate, Kuala Lumpur and you won’t either.

**About Role**

As an **Account Payable **Associate** **in our new **APAC Global Business Services Centre (GBS)**, you will be responsible for ensuring vendors' invoices are processed and paid, collaborate with markets colleagues' resolution of problems may appear, deal with vendors queries and questions.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Processing vendors invoices
- Maintain vendors account cleared and up to date
- Error management for invoices failing the matching criteria
- Work with markets colleagues to issues resolution
- Deal with vendors queries and issues
- Facilitate the resolution of blocked invoices
- Reconciling vendors statements
- Work with the available reports to minimize issues on vendors accounts

In this role you will be collaborating with various stakeholders across the business including our other GBS teams in Lisbon and Bogota, local finance, sales and marketing.

Our APAC GBS supports a hybrid working approach. You will be supporting markets in multiple time zones and some flexibility around working hours will be needed.

You will be joining a newly formed Global Business Services team, with opportunities to grow, within PTP or wider finance functions.

**About Role**

As an **Accounts Receivable Associate** in our new** APAC Global Business Services Centre (GBS)**, you will have the opportunity to play a role in defining and supporting our future as well as being part of a new and exciting team. Partnering with our local/regional teams you will manage full cash allocation to reconciliation of GL accounts.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Accurately processing customer payments in a timely manner
- Review customer remittances and bank statements to ensure customer payments are applied accurately
- Resolve payment discrepancies and, providing solution to address the root cause
- To investigate any unidentified or unallocated payment receipts, partnering with the collections team to determine the correct posting
- Update daily cash book
- Perform AR month-end/close activities

In this role you will be collaborating with various stakeholders across the business including our other GBS teams in Lisbon and Bogota, local finance, sales and marketing.

Our APAC GBS supports a hybrid working approach. You will be supporting markets in multiple time zones and some flexibility around working hours will be needed.

You will be joining a newly formed Global Business Services team, with opportunities to grow, within OTC or wider finance functions.

**About You**

To be successful you will have:

- Minimum 2 years accounts and/or accounts payable experience
- Understanding of country markets and payment methodology is advantageous
- Working knowledge of SAP and MS Office
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- A proactive approach towards challenges and problem solving able to work autonomously
- Excellent organizational and time management able to work to tight deadlines and with switching priorities
- A customer-first mindset to fit with our “forever caring” brand

**Language**:

- Good written and spoken English is essential
- A proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean and/or Thai as well as other Asian languages will be an advantage

**Qualifications/Education**:

- Accounting or Finance Degree (preferred)

Our ambitions will bring the very best out in you. You’ll be pushed to aim higher and really own your work. You’ll be encouraged and supported to make things happen, too. It can be challenging. But, as the progress you make will help improve the lives of millions, it’ll be worth it.

**This is stepping up to a challenge.**

**This is work that’ll move you.**

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**Equal opportunities**

Convatec provides equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applican