Emerging Markets AP & T&E Operations Analyst

Job Description

The Financial Shared Service (FSS) organization provides a consistent interface to the business and integrated management of services regardless of traditional functional boundaries. Organization is committed to dramatically improving our effectiveness and the Cisco experience for our customers, partners, employees, and shareholders.

The AP role requires a variety of clerical accounting functions such as coding and entering A/P and PO invoices into local accounting systems, preparing accounts payable batches, calculating and verifying amounts, and posting transactions to accounts. The role typically requires a minimum of two to four years of accounting experience. In order to apply accounting principles and handle work that is analytical, evaluative, and advisory in nature and that requires an understanding of both basic accounting practices and procedures. Professionals are expected to have the ability to pay attention to detail and process a high volume of data. They are generally in daily communication with cross functional internal teams and third party suppliers.

The Team
You will be part of a dynamic team, with many years’ experiences which was created to drive the future of small entity and acquisition accounts payable in alignment with the global AP vision. Joining this team will offer challenges to the candidate to influence and inspire our business partner collaboration. Who You Are

Experienced AP processor, passionate about the role who understands the concepts and the process flow related to AP. Enjoy working within a team with the ability to prioritize tasks and deliver them independently in an organized manner. You will Interact with different stakeholders in a remote / virtual and face-to-face environment to request or provide any information as required.

Role & Responsibilities
Reports to Acquisition Leader, Operations
Interface with external vendors
Interface with internal stakeholders and cross functional internal teams, BU and Finance.

Accounts Payable Deliverables

• Validation of AP and T&E documents
• Provide 3 ^rd party vendor with necessary accesses
• Send invoices to 3 ^rd party vendor for processing
• Ensuring compliance of AP and T&E processes
• Payment processing – releasing AP, T&E and TAX payments-related payments from bank – ensuring invoices, taxes and employee’s expenses are paid on time
• Audit Cisco employees’ expenses, following up with employees to resolve issues
• Validation and approval of bank templates
• Resolve cases raised by Cisco employees in Case Management tool
• Update payment status in EMET tool
• Solving AP and T&E related issues and errors
• Consistent checking of all invoices & expenses before payment release
• Act at POC for assigned countries
• Participate and perform monthly auditing of invoices and T&E expenses, testing and monitoring of process controls

Required Experience

• 2 years of AP managerial experience preferably processing accounts payable for a large organization or in shared service
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to take initiative to work independently and with a virtual team
• Presentation and collaboration skills
• Stakeholder management
• Reporting skills
• Can be trusted to handle extremely confidential and sensitive material
• Good communication skills in English

About Cisco
The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's transforming our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place to Work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.