About the role
As our new Senior Accounts Payable Accountant, Mandarin Speaker you will be overseeing daily P2P operations across multiple entities, ensuring accurate and compliant invoice processing, driving process improvements, and mentoring junior team members to elevate overall team performance. You'll be part of a diverse, supportive and inclusive culture, that celebrates our differences and puts people first by fostering growth, well-being, and a sense of belonging.
What You Will Be Doing As a key part of the Finance - Accounts Payable team, you'll create impact by Driving end-to-end process efficiency and automation across our Purchase-to-Pay operations, directly contributing to Grundfos's financial excellence and operational scalability..
Your main responsibilities include:
- Execute and oversee daily Purchase-to-Pay activities for selected local companies in line with defined SLAs/OLAs, including complex invoice processing and vendor transactions
- Lead month-end closing activities for assigned regions, including accrual proposals and reporting to Finance Team Leaders
- Identify process inefficiencies and drive improvement initiatives, implementing best practices and automation to reduce manual effort and enhance compliance
- Train, mentor, and review the work of junior AP staff while managing daily ticket assignments and follow-ups in the SNOW system
- Support migration activities, go-live preparations, and internal control and audit processes
- Monitor KPIs such as invoice cycle time and error rates, ensuring adherence to service level agreements
What Makes You a Great Fit Above all, you are a detail-oriented finance professional with strong P2P expertise, a continuous improvement mindset, and proven ability to mentor teams and collaborate effectively across functions. We would also imagine that you have:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting or equivalent work experience with 3+ years in Accounts Payable or Finance operations
- Advanced Mandarin language proficiency (must-have)
- SAP experience with solid understanding of end-to-end Procure-to-Pay processes
- Demonstrated ability to lead process improvements and mentor junior team members
It is a plus if you also:
- Familiarity with ServiceNow (SNOW) ticketing systems
- Experience supporting system migrations or ERP go-live projects
Why you will love working here We care! Day to day, you can look forward to:
- A working environment built around your needs, with flexible hours, home working opportunities and parental support.
- Annual bonuses, health insurance, retirement benefit and a strong focus on well-being activities.
- Three days' additional paid leave for volunteering in your community.
- Access to on-demand training and learning sessions and carefully structured programmes to pursue personal and professional development opportunities.
We are inclusive! Celebrating and valuing our differences helps us see possibilities where others can't. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all abilities, experiences, and backgrounds.
Are you ready to unlock possibilities at Grundfos? Apply today! To get to know us better, follow us on LinkedIn or visit grundfos.com
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