Accounts Payable Analyst

Spectrum Brands is one of the largest home essentials companies trusted by millions of consumers all over the world. Our insights and innovation provide exciting solutions through our long-trusted brands like FURminator®, DreamBone®, Russell Hobbs®, Tetra®, GloFish®, Remington®, Cutter®, and Spectracide®. Structured for growth and efficiency, we can serve more consumers, customers, and stakeholders around the world every year. We are led by our values of trust, accountability, and collaboration to serve others through a common mission: we make living better at home.

Spectrum Brands’ global enabling functions, including Finance, Legal, IT, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and Commercial Operations, provide enterprise-wide strategy, structure, and common processes to deliver the knowledge and expertise that helps our businesses grow. Enabling functions may operate as a center-led global team, providing a central strategy, structure, and standards; or as business partner teams, with resources embedded within the businesses to deliver business unit-specific results.

The Accounts Payable Analyst will be responsible for the resolution of invoice exceptions and Goods Received/Invoices Received (GR/IR) issues through extensive contact with internal and external customers.

Analytical (80%)

• Analyze invoices to determine gaps and concerns within GR/IR. Collaborate with Supply Chain and Sourcing to resolve open GR/IR item discrepancies and improve processes to prevent future GR/IR concerns.
• Formulate recommendations to adjust, update and monitor information for discrepancies within accounts.
• Research and review outstanding payments that have been returned to determine cause.
• Perform trend analysis regarding past due invoices, vendor responsiveness and interaction with other departments.
• Assist management with weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting and audit requests.

Transactional (15%)

• Assist with resolution of vendor inquiries and exceptions that are escalated from the third party partner.
• Post time sensitive invoices.
• Work directly with treasury to submit and process payment runs.
• Void and reverse returned payments.
• Work with Master Data Specialist, vendors and sourcing to update vendor information.
• Work with vendors to resolve outstanding checks.

Other (5%)

• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
• Minimum of two years related experience in Accounts Payable or a related field.

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Accomplished user of Microsoft Office (Excel and Word).
• SAP system experience strongly desired.

• Working conditions are normal for an office environment.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

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