Accounts Payable Team Member (Purchase-to-Pay) - Prague

Together Medtronic and Covidien are working to improve how healthcare addresses the needs of more people, in more ways and in more places around the world. As one company, we can accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. This is the ideal opportunity to join us, and be part of our commitment to the health of others.

We know the combined resources of Medtronic and Covidien will be transformative, creating new methodologies and new opportunities. Whatever your specialty or ambitions, you can make a difference at Medtronic - both in the lives of others and your career.

Medtronic is a $27.8b company with more than 85K employees in more than 160 countries.

Accounts Payable Team Member (Purchase-to-Pay) - Prague
Competitive salary plus benefits including 25 days holiday, meal vouchers

The Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) team is part of the European Financial Shared Service Center and is responsible for timely, correct and efficient processing and payment of all supplier invoices (Accounts Payable (AP)) and employee expense reimbursements (Expense Reporting (ER)). As such, each team member of the Accounts Payable team is responsible to ensure that vendor invoices are matched and paid and that the expense reports are properly authorized and efficiently processed; another important activity would be to ensure the monthly reconciliation of AP assigned accounts.

In this role, the Accounts Payable team member is seen as a true business partner for the local finance organization and alongside senior team members and the supervisor he/she is supposed to identify report and find solutions regarding the issues occurred. This is an exciting position for someone starting a career in finance area or developing further on in Purchase-to-Pay field.

The Accounts Payable team member is expected to either be located already in Prague, or to be considering and willing to relocate to the capital city of the Czech Republic.

The Primary Responsibilities are:

* Assure the execution of predefined Accounts Payable activities (matching the vendor invoices, checking the data accuracy, prepare the payment of invoices)
* Perform Expense Reporting activities
* Perform monthly reconciliation activities in a timely fashioned manner for the assigned accounts, solve outstanding issues and resolve aged items
* Contribute to embed the Continuous Improvement mindset into the department by applying Lean Sigma problem solving methodology
* Have regular contact with the (local) finance organization to discuss status, identify and solve issues, and identify opportunities to add value to the business

Requirements of the role are:

* Previous experience in finance/accounting in an international environment preferred; past experience in a Shared Services Centre
* Ability to work in a dynamic environment
* Educational degree in finance/accounting/economics area
* Highly efficient verbal and communication skills in English
* Work experience with MS Office suite (especially Excel), SAP (desired), and other ERP-s and reporting tools

Other Requirements:

* Strong team player but also with the ability of working independently with minimum supervision
* Can-do attitude and flexibility
* Customer focused
* Process oriented
* Passionate about process improvements; experience in Problem Solving (e.g. Lean Sigma) preferred