Essence, part of GroupM, is a global data and measurement-driven agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. Clients include Google, Flipkart, Nando's and the Financial Times. The agency is more than 1,600 people strong, manages over $3.6B in annualized media spend and deploys campaigns in 71 markets via its global offices throughout North America, EMEA and APAC.

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About the role

Joining a small but expanding Accounts team as an Accounts Payable Executive, your primary role will be to facilitate the day to day Accounts Payable for Essence. This will include helping to manage our day-to-day cash flow and maintaining strong relationships with our business partners.

With a fast growing business, spend control is mission critical and cash is king. There’s also a lot of change with evolving business requirements. This role is crucial in keeping control of these and supporting our continued development.

Some of the things we’d like you to do:

• Entering and coding invoices and expenses
• Facilitating the internal authorization of invoices
• Review all staff expenses to ensure that all claims are properly approved, supported with receipts and in line with the company’s claim policies
• Being the central point of contact internally and for external parties for accounts queries
• Being responsible for the resolution of these accounts queries
• Assisting with payment runs
• Assisting in reconciliation of AP ledgers and media accrual accounts
• Bank reconciliations

A bit about yourself:

• Degree/diploma in accounting
• Ideally 1 -2 years’ experience in accounts payable
• Experience of working with Microsoft Excel
• Responsible, diligent and attentive to detail; follows through on queries and issues
• Strong communicator, comfortable in dealing with both internal and external parties, clients and suppliers
• Recognizes and resolves problems quickly and efficiently
• SAP system experience preferable
• Experience managing multiple offices desired
• Knowledge of the Japanese language will be a plus

What you can expect from Essence

Essence’s mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. We do this by employing the world’s very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today’s digital marketing landscape. It’s important that we hire people whose values reflect those of our own: genuine, results-focused, daring and insightful. As an Essence employee, we promise you a workplace that invests in your career, cares for you and is fun and engaging. We believe these factors create a workplace where you can be yourself and do amazing work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or marital status.