Accounts Payable Accountant

Kuehne + Nagel Turkey is looking for an enthusiastic, self-driven and motivated personality to support the accounting team in the high paced day-to-day activities

Your Role

You will be responsible for handling the overall activities and operations in the account payable function. As well as, ensure timely payments of vendor accounts by maintaining accurate financial records and control reports.

Your Responsibilities

• Monitoring unacknowledged invoices and analysing and reviewing all incoming invoices before payment process
• Reconciliating supplier statements
• Planning and execution of Vendor payment runs as well as managing the accuracy of the Vendor database
• Communicating and negotiating with suppliers for credit terms / extended credit terms as well as eliminating Accounts Payable debit balances and credit notes
• Coordinating with the team in monthly closing process to ensure the adherence of deadlines
• Holding regular calls with local finance, challenge local team on accounts where scope to delay payments
• On boarding suppliers on trade shift and registering supplier for supplier financing
• Assisting and coordinating with different Kuehne + Nagel stakeholders with their queries and month end tasks

Your Skills and Experiences

• Bachelor’s degree within Financial Studies or similar is a big plus
• 3 years of experience in accounting with in depth knowledge of financial standards, principles and procedures
• Proficient in MS Office Applications and PC Skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Proven analytical and problem solving skills with attention to details
• Good judgement skills
• Commercial minded and customer oriented
• Very good spoken and written English is a must, Arabic is a big plus

Good Reasons to Join

At Kuehne + Nagel you can demonstrate your personal and professional attributes. And you will have countless opportunities for further development. Benefit from the comprehensive offers provided by a global market leader and contribute your ideas on how we can continue to get a little better every day. You can be sure: Your opinion counts.