Accounts Payable Manager

**About Estee Lauder Companies**

ELC (Estee Lauder Companies) is a global leader in prestige beauty that delights consumers with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty. They are the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in 150 countries. Infused throughout their organization is a passion for creativity and innovation; a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected.

**Position Overview**

Responsibiliries
- Lead delivery of financial services, partnering with Third Party Provider in the execution of PTP processes for the North America Region, providing guidance and assistance for day to day accounts payables and reporting activities
- Partner with various departments across the company to develop a deeper understanding of all transactions impact the North America Region processes and reporting, performing root cause analysis to resolve process inefficiencies
- Oversee the development and delivery of required reporting, with a focus on working capital and cash forecasting
- Support brand finance teams, Third Party Provider, Procurement operations, and other key stakeholders, acting as a key point of contact for changes related to process enhancements
- Ensure quality execution of financial processes in areas including but not limited to Vendor Account Analysis, Month End & GR/IR Reconciliations, Abandoned Property & AP Recovery Reporting, T&E Management, and Payment Run Processing
- Support Process Transformation, working with various stakeholders to facilitate end to end process review and assessments, identifying opportunities to drive increased harmonization and standardization across brands, departments, and processes
- Foster environment of integrity, monitoring adherence to applicable SOX and Operational controls, facilitating risk assessments & audit control testing
- Ensure creation of and regular updates to appropriate process documentation to improve understanding and drive operational consistency
- Partner with F&A Cockpit team, identifying areas of opportunities, and sharing best practices among other functions, in order to continually refine and evolve the service delivery model support structure
- Define and monitor metrics to evaluate process health and provide for ongoing process control and sustainability
- Train and lead PTP Sr. Analysts, providing guidance and assistance to team members for day to day activities
- Participate in projects around process redesign, new brand integrations, and system implementations
- Engage in and suggest continuous process improvement ideas
- Ensure that all activities are performed in the most efficient and effective manner possible

**Qualifications**
**Requirements**:

- Proficient in Excel and financial reporting systems; SAP desired
- Fully bilingual in English and Spanish
- Ability collaborate and drive cross-functional consensus and strong communication and presentation skills necessary
- Ability to work under pressure of tight deadlines and to multitask

**Job**: Finance & Accounting

**Primary Location**: Latin America-PA
- **Job Type**: Standard

**Schedule**: Full-time

**Shift**: 1st (Day) Shift

**Job Number**: 241684