Expense Specialist (Accounts Payable)

About the role

This role covers verification, processing and supervision of vendor payments, employee reimbursements and prepayments within the accounts payable function. It also involves monitoring dashboards, preparing expense analyses and supporting the annual audit.

Key responsibilities

• Verify all vendor payments and employee reimbursements on the AP system so they comply with company policy, delegate financial authority and supervise batch payments.
• Monitor BI dashboards daily, update the costing matrix and prepare branch premium and expense analysis with rationale.
• Process recurring prepayments, prepaids and advances to suppliers.
• Identify tax rate changes in the annual budget and update them in Oracle, preparing related schedules for budgeting and forecasting.
• Perform month-end and periodic AP closing, coordinate with other departments and liaise with external auditors on accrued expenses.
• Maintain monthly expense schedules by head, reconcile payments for conventions and marketing activities, and check AP booker attachments on Oracle.
• Supervise AP bookers, assign tasks and special assignments to team members according to skill set and workload.

Required profile

• Part-qualified ACCA, ACMA, MBA/BBA or bachelor's degree in finance or accounting.
• 2-4 years of accounts payable experience; insurance industry background preferred.
• Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, high attention to detail and solid knowledge of financial policies.

Required skills

• Hands-on Oracle ERP.
• Power BI reporting.