Accounts Payable Officer

The Accounts Payable officer reports to the Accounts Payable Supervisor and is responsible and accountable for:

• Ownership of shared inbox query escalations
• Invoice processing of complex accounts
• Review of supplier reconciliations
• Weekly banking payment upload
• Supplier bank account change and update verification
• Manage timeliness of supplier invoice approvals
• Processing of credit card reconciliations including assisting with the Business Travel Account
• Relationship building with internal and external stakeholders
• Assisting with annual audit queries

Skills

• Use general technical or subject matter knowledge to contribute to deliverables
• Escalate work related problems or queries as appropriate to ensure timely and swift resolutions
• Strong problem-solving abilities
• Follow prevailing authorization processes, policies and practices for all aspects role
• Ability to prioritise to meet multiple deadlines
• Work effectively within the team
• Build successful and effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Be a keen participant in own career development, including contributing to appraisals and development plans.
• Respond to team or internal client queries in an accurate, effective and timely manner

Education/Training/Qualifications

• Minimum 2-3 years accounts payable experience in a similar role
• High attention to detail and accurate data entry
• Strong and effective communication skills
• Intermediate Excel and Microsoft Office skills
• Previous experience working in a professional services environment (highly regarded)

Who Are We

As the world’s leading sustainability consulting firm, ERM is uniquely positioned to contribute to the environment and society through the expertise and energy of our employees worldwide. 

Sustainability is what we do, and is at the heart of both our service offerings and how we operate our business. For our people, our vision means attracting, inspiring, developing and rewarding our people to work with the best clients and on the biggest challenges, thus creating valuable careers. 

We achieve our vision in a sustainable manner by maintaining and living our ERM values that include Accountability, Caring for our People, Client Focus, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Transparency.

Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.

ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status or disability status.

Thank you for your interest in ERM.

About Us

At ERM, sustainability is our business.

We are the world’s largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance.

ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities.

Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation.

With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor.

Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it).

Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action.

Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a “boots to boardroom” leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world.

We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth.

At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.