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Basic Purpose of Role
The Accounts Payable (AP) specialist is responsible for invoice processing and expense claim processing for Cognizant offices across Continental Europe. Verifying background information, ensuring proper coding in internal systems and relevant approvals are in place. The AP specialist will play an important role in ensuring all costs are coded /reallocated to the right place.
The AP Specialist will communicate regularly with people from different countries and cultures at all levels within the organization (project- office- and support teams and vendors). The position provides a great opportunity to understand how the company works and what it does. Candidates for this role would be expected to move into another function within the company about 3 years of joining and to further their career in a specific financial or business field.
Tasks and Responsibilities
General

• To process incoming vendor invoices

• To reconcile, investigate and resolve invoice queries, initiate correction within the Accounts Payable system.

• Review all payment files

• Assist in financial, client, external and internal audits

• Communicate effectively to both suppliers & employees on all ongoing queries.

• Identify discrepancies and ensure all queries on the accounts are followed through and resolved in a timely manner.

Expense report processing

• Manage travel advance requests

• Review verify travel expense reports

• Follow up the payments to employee/ balance payments of travel expense to CTS, according to travel policies

• Archive all original expense bills and documents

• File copies in CTS Hungary

Admin team support

• Back-up invoice related activities of the Admin team in case of absences

Required:

• Bachelors degree preferably in Accounting or Finance
• Fluent written and spoken English is essential. French, German, Polish, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian are a plus
• Computer literacy, especially MS Excel