Account Payable Sr Analyst
Bogota, DC, CO
Position Description:
Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Accounts Payable (AP) within a GBS model, overseeing and supporting operations executed by a BPO provider. Responsible for ensuring service quality, compliance, issue resolution, and continuous improvement, while acting as a bridge between stakeholders and the outsourced team.
Key Responsibilities
BPO Oversight & Operational Control
- Monitor daily AP operations performed by the BPO provider
- Validate service delivery against SLAs, KPIs, and quality standards
- Review outputs such as invoice postings, payment proposals, and reconciliations
- Identify and escalate performance gaps or risks
Issue Resolution & Escalations
- Act as first point of escalation for complex AP issues:
- Blocked invoices
- Pricing/PO discrepancies
- Payment failures
- Coordinate resolution between BPO, Procurement, and internal stakeholders
- Ensure timely closure of tickets and escalations
Quality & Compliance
- Perform quality reviews and audits on BPO-processed transactions
- Ensure adherence to internal controls and policies (SOX if applicable)
- Detect and prevent duplicate or incorrect payments
- Maintain proper audit trail and documentation standards
Process Governance & SME Role
- Ensure compliance with GBS standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Act as process expert for AP, providing guidance to BPO and internal teams
- Support training and knowledge transfer to the BPO provider
- Maintain and update process documentation
Continuous Improvement
- Identify process inefficiencies and improvement opportunities
- Support automation initiatives (OCR, RPA, workflow tools)
- Drive standardization and simplification across countries
Stakeholder Management
- Act as key contact for internal stakeholders (Finance, Procurement, local teams)
- Support vendor issue resolution when escalated
- Provide clear communication on status, risks, and resolutions
Reporting & Analytics
- Track and analyze key operational metrics:
- SLA compliance
- Invoice accuracy
- Backlog and aging
- Provide insights and recommendations to improve BPO performance
- Support reporting to AP Lead / Manager
Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field
Experience
- 4 - 6 years of experience in Accounts Payable
- Experience in GBS / Shared Services environments
- Experience working with or supporting BPO providers (strongly preferred)
- Experience handling complex AP cases and escalations
Technical Skills
- ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or similar)
- Intermediate/Advanced Excel
- Strong understanding of AP processes, controls and compliance
- Experience with reporting and data analysis
Languages & Systems
- Intermediate to advanced English
- Experience with SAP
- Advanced Excel and reporting/dashboarding tools.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Orientation and push for results.
- Customer focus
- Frustration resistance.
- Analytic capacity.
- High communication capacity.
- Teamwork.
- Creative problem resolution.
- Managing skills
- Follow up.
- Leadership and responsibility.