AP Accountant

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the end-to-end Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process for KSA and Bahrain in compliance with SGS policies and the No PO–No Pay principle.

• Process supplier invoices accurately, ensuring correct coding, VAT treatment, supporting documentation, and approvals.

• Verify invoices against purchase orders, goods receipts, contracts, and supporting documents to ensure three-way matching compliance.

• Manage weekly and monthly supplier payment cycles, prepare payment proposals, and support payment file uploads.

• Monitor invoice approval workflows and follow up with stakeholders to prevent payment delays and aged liabilities.

• Communicate with suppliers regarding invoice status, payment schedules, remittance advice, account balances, and disputes.

• Reconcile supplier statements and resolve discrepancies, blocked invoices, duplicate payments, debit balances, and aged open items.

• Review prepaid expenses and prepare monthly accrual and prepaid expense schedules in accordance with SGS accounting policies.

• Support month-end and year-end closing, including AP aging reviews, GR/IR reconciliations, accruals, prepaid reviews, and balance sheet reconciliations.

• Maintain accurate AP documentation for internal and external audits and support supplier master data maintenance in line with internal controls.

• Escalate overdue invoices, payment issues, policy exceptions, and unresolved discrepancies to management.

• Contribute to process improvements, automation initiatives, KPI monitoring, and standardization of P2P processes across KSA and Bahrain.