Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Patients are at the heart of what we do at Edwards Lifesciences. Our Finance teams work hard to optimize our current and long-term success and enable our ongoing strategy of innovation, leadership, and focus. As part of the team, whether providing analysis, forecasting, or reporting financial information, your application of accurate financial business practices will play a fundamental role in how we impact the quality of life for patients all over the world.
How you’ll make an impact:
- Ensure that AP invoice processing in either invoice or payments processing are complied with global and supplemental policies and reviewed in time
- Verify if supporting documents for GR/IR process are sufficient and process them accordingly in time.
- Payment clearing to be done on time to ensure accounts are up to date.
- Provide moderately complex accounts payable analysis including ensuring the accuracy of the suppliers’ data (e.g., financial data, tax filing status) or accuracy and timeliness of invoice processing
- Lead and participate in projects (e.g, internal, external, year-end, and SOX audits) to support the overall objectives of the department or company-wide strategic initiatives.
- Identify, evaluate, and ensure the accuracy/completeness of the accounts payable accruals or any other reporting tasks to support the overall objectives of the department.
- Resolve complex issues to bring invoices or supplier set up issues to closure by collaborating with other departments or suppliers.
- Provide coaching and guidance to lower level employees.
- Develop and update process flows, policies and procedures, training materials for the assigned areas
- Other incidental duties
What you'll need (Required):
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration, 3 years of previous experience required
- Able to read, write, comprehend, and speak English.
- Full knowledge of accounting concepts and principles
- Expertise in one or more functional areas and detailed knowledge of other areas impacted within the business
- Full knowledge in MS Office Suite including Excel and integrated systems (e.g., JDE)
What else we look for (Preferred):
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent communication, interpersonal relationship, and negotiation skills
- Strict attention to detail
- Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
- Must be able to work in a team environment, including the ability to manage vendors and stakeholders
- Ability to build productive internal/external working relationships
- Responsible for individual and collective team contributions.
- Ability to provide suggestions based upon knowledge and analysis.
- Ability to influence cross site activities.
- May schedule the work of or coach others.
- Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control