Role Summary

The Payment Accountant is responsible for managing and processing all company payments, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with financial policies and regulations. This role involves reconciling accounts payable transactions, maintaining payment records, preparing reports, and supporting month-end and year-end closing activities. The Payment Accountant collaborates with internal departments and external vendors to resolve discrepancies and improve payment processes.

Responsibilities

• Propose and execute regular payment runs, monthly payments and ad hoc urgent requests based on needs.  Follow up on technical payment success. 
• Monitor and reconcile both proposed and final payment batches by verifying entries and comparing system information to expected outcomes as described in legacy site or if applicable, the S/4 Hana standard payment process 
• Execute all kind of payment related tasks within a day
• Respond to inquiries within 24 hours of receipt assuming 5-day business week. 
• Resolve payment discrepancies and complex issues. Have a continuous follow up on issues and aged items.
• Recognize process deficiencies, suggest solutions and work out processes
• Ensure Desktop Procedure Documentation is up-to-date and create them if its need
• Assist with month end closing if there is a need
• Be the primary contact for the site, SV and other team members regarding any questions or process related issues
• Provide guidance in priorization to team members
• Provide trainings to Payment team and other team members
• Lead calls and meetings
• Participate, lead or own projects as required
• Have an overview on and report daily tasks, issues, priorities to the supervisor
• handling multiple ERPs and international banks
• Ensure data accuracy
• Assure approvals per Flowserve Delegation of Authority and segregation of duties policies are followed before payment.
• Ensure compliance with Flowserve policies, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles as defined by Flowserve (GAAP), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and local statutory laws and regulations and that business is conducted within Flowserve ethical code of business conduct. 
• Perform other ad-hoc tasks defined by the direct leader or above

Requirements:

• 5-7 years’ relevant work experience preferably in Accounts payable, payment or treasury in a Shared Service environment
• Have completed or in progress an Economics/Finance related Secondary Studies or Bachelor’s degree.
• Solid experience in: bank GL, treasury bank accounting, bank charges and how to pay vendors
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Any additional languages would be a plus but not essential. 
• Higher user-level Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint knowledge.
• Strong knowledge of ERP systems (such as Oracle, SAP)
•  Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with stakeholders.
• Have strong analytical, research and problem-solving skills.
• Keen attention to details
• Proactively recognizes process gaps and drive process changes.
• Continuous improvement mindset (LEAN Six Sigma is an advantage)
•  High tolerance for multi-tasking
• Excellent team player
•  Ability to train and mentor other team members.