Accountant (Payment Specialist)

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting embraces long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including IBM Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be supported by mentors and coaches who will encourage you to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and learning opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Payment Specialist monitor automated payments, executes manual payments, resolver queries and work on cash reconciliation.

Description

Payment Team Member makes rule-based decisions, execute payments and resolves issues according to agreed guidelines. They interact with vendors, clients, and third parties, supporting continuous improvement initiatives and process enhancements. Responsibilities include meeting daily tasks and goals, prioritizing work based on importance, and achieving AP targets as defined by leadership and SLAs.

Necessary Interpersonal Competencies

• Ability to cope with different situations, requirements, uncertainty, and stress.
• Communication - clear, concise, and honest oral and written communication; understanding and using accessible communication tools.
• Drive to achieve - achieving ambitious goals and looking for better results.
• Cooperation - practical cooperation with team members and Team Leader/Manager, different units and teams inside and outside IBM; mutually respecting and appreciating differences; building and strengthening relations; finding solutions favorable for both sides.
• Actively work on cross-training with your backup/shadow. Knows the tasks of the backup and can cover all his tasks in case of his absence.
• Helps to other team members in case of a substantial amount of work.
  
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Executing manual payments
• Working effectively on cash reconciliation
• Communication with vendors and other Teams to resolve queries (Procurement, Invoicng Team, VMD Team, Technical Support)
• Resolving queries from vendors in Salesforce
• Communicate effectively and timely to resolve issues
• Perform any other reviews as per procedures/process guidelines
• Contribute to group success of the meeting and/or exceeding operational metrics
  
  
  

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• BA/BS degree (In lieu of degree, relevant skills, or equivalent experience)
• Strong soft skills, including proven ability to turn frustrated customers into happy customers and communicate to employees at all levels within the organization
• Excellent communication skills, including full working knowledge of written and spoken English
• Experience working with finance or accounting-related products
• Attention to detail with the ability to effectively multitask and work independently
• Experience with Google Docs suite of products
• Additional languages are a plus
• Agree to complete IDV verification
  
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• n/a
  
  
  

About Business Unit

IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

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Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.