P2p Analyst

Education : EQUIVALENTEXPERIENCE

**At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) - it all starts with animals**

**As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability - the Elanco Healthy Purpose - to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.**

**At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.**

**Making animals’ lives better makes life better - join our team today**

This person will be responsible to understand and process all activities that belongs to the end to end Procure to Pay cycle making sure the execution is done according to Elanco Standards & Rules within the internal controls established and will contribute to accounting processes related to providers/vendors management, expense reimbursement, treasury, The accountant will contribute

to establishing, documenting, and maintaining a strong process and control framework.

**Functions, Duties, Tasks**:

- Administers the accounts payable process which starts with the reception of an invoice, and ends with the payment of the invoice to the supplier.
- Activities may include preparing and recording invoices as well as performing complex operational/technical accounts payable and analysis reporting.
- Backup of other team members in order to support the daily operation.
- Review cost and payable accounts of the general ledger.
- Reconcile and analyze accounts and transactions.
- Participate to vendor/providers management: onboarding new vendors (incl. tax and payment information as well as cost center/approval flow configuration), monitor receipt of invoices, collect budget owners approval, ensure payment processing.
- Provide an excellent service for reimbursing employees’ expenses while enforcing the expense policy.
- Ensure process documentation and controls.
- Participate in the monthly and quarterly closing procedures.
- Prepare and execute monthly journal entries including accruals and adjustments as needed under strict closing deadlines.
- Ad hoc projects: participate in ad hoc projects as needed, contribute to finance workstreams accounting processes, payment confirmation, bank reconciliations, accounts payable improvement, etc.
- Support the Junior levels within the P2P Team with training, questions or even their daily operation.
- Be the main point of contact with Affiliate to solve escalations.

**Minimum Qualification** (education, experience and/or training, required certifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree (if truncated, Hiring Manager will decide to stop or continue with the process).
- Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- English - Intermediate/Advanced.
- MSO - Intermediate/Advanced.
- + 5 Years of experience.
- ERP’s experience (SAP, Oracle, etc.)
- AMS markets experience (if none, Hiring Manager will decide to stop or continue with the process).
- Working experience in public companies or private companies with a solid internal control framework.
- Internal/External Audit & Controls Knowledge
- Working experience in transitions and continuous improvement projects (automatization, simplification, compliance, etc.)
- Results oriented (individual and group), constantly seeking and implementing improvements.

**Additional Preferences**:

- Accounting skills with agility in managing the main statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow)
- Six Sigma Green Belt/Yellow Belt Knowledge desired
- Share point and Power BI Knowledge
- Portuguese Medium/Advanced
- SharePoint, Power BI & Visio experience.
- USA, CAN & LATAM Market Knowledge would be a plus

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status