Waters

Overview

Waters Corporation is seeking a motivated Accounts Payable Analyst II to join our Finance Transformation organization. The Accounts Payable Analyst II will support the administrative and operational tasks related to ensuring invoices and payments are processed in a timely and accurate manner and in line with our payment term policy and will report to the Accounts Payable Supervisor with exposure to the Director, Global Process owner of Source to Pay. This position will coordinate new initiatives and drive process improvements to support the company's continued growth.

Responsibilities

• Support the daily payee and payment operations of the Accounts Payable department.
• Effectively communicate with both internal and external stakeholders. Assists with a wide variety of non-routine, specialized and/or occasionally sensitive situations and problems, requiring considerable judgment.
• Support the reconciliation and resolution of complex account issues related to manufacturing with both 3rd party and Inter-company vendors.
• Pro-actively manage risk, anticipate potential issues, and implement appropriate mitigations.
• Ensure mitigation of financial risk by adhering to all internal controls and facilitating support of both internal and external audit requests. Identify and recommend process improvements and efficiency gains pertaining to the controls as AP processes are continuously changing to accommodate the needs of the business and our vendors.
• Review both W8 (foreign vendor) and W9 forms to ensure completeness, including knowledge of tax laws required to accurately validate and determine whether a vendor payment has tax reporting implications. Assist with the 1099 and 1042S processes to include tax form printing and annual filings directly to the IRS.
• Assist the data analytics review provided by 3rd party vendors regarding duplicate and/or incorrect vendor payments and identify corrective actions and process improvements to limit potential exposure.
• Run Key metric reports in order to measure business impact regarding changes pertaining to improving backlog, discount vendor payments, etc.

Actively participate in ongoing AP/Source to Pay projects, global expansion and systems production suppport initiatives pertaining to vendor payment consolidations as well as working with indirect/direct team on payment initiatives such as increased payment card usage related to rebate incentive reviews.

Qualifications

• Preferred - Associates degree in Accounting, Business Administration or related field
• 15+ years of experience effectively supporting accounts payable functions
• Experience in using SAP accounting and purchasing modules, with Ariba experience a plus
• Strong Verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organization and customer service skills
• Strong problem resolution skills

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.