AP Specialist

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Job Summary:

The AP Specialist will manage the day-to-day Accounts Payable activities for F5 countries in Europe, including Austria, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Saudi, and Turkey. The successful candidate will work closely with the Accounts Payable Manager to ensure that processing complies with company policy and procedures.

Main Responsibilities:

• Process Accounts Payable invoices into the Oracle Accounting system via the Invoice Batch function, working closely with the Accounts Payable Manager to ensure compliance with company policy and procedures.
• Produce bi-monthly preliminary payment registers and create payments, controlling the payment process to ensure invoices are paid in a timely manner.
• Reconcile supplier statements each month to ensure F5 Networks does not have any exposures.
• Perform ad-hoc AP reviews, including reviewing the Invoice Aging to ensure the overall Aging for 31+ days is under 5%, running and reviewing the On-Hold Report to clear any outstanding items, and resolving any invoice or supplier queries.

Employee Expenses:

• Supply cover for checking employee expenses entered in the Concur Expenses System to ensure they comply with the Travel/Expenses Policy, liaising with employees or managers to resolve any issues such as duplicate claims, missing receipts.
• Create payments for employee expenses payable in GBP and Euros via Concur Pay, and other currencies via EFT payments, for approval by the EMEA Accounts Payable Manager or above.

Other Responsibilities:

• Make miscellaneous payments to clear intercompany balances, VAT payments, and Corporation taxes payments.
• Update the cash forecast with the values of payments being made in month 3 of the quarter.
• Be responsible for closing the month-end AP sub-ledger for Denmark, Finland, and Germany, including reconciling the AP ledger to the G/L each month-end, running the holds report, and clearing any outstanding items, and producing the month-end report for accruals purposes.
• Provide back-up for other F5 companies.

Requirements:

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to work as part of a team and direct and manage the work of others.
• European language, German, French, Polish, and/or Hebrew desired.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High degree of personal ownership and accountability for all work products.
• Experience with an ERP system, Oracle 11i or Coupa preferred.
• MS Office with good knowledge of Excel.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years relevant experience.