As a finance professional at Kuehne+Nagel, your work includes managing budgets, strategic planning, and overseeing financial operations. You also help make ordinary and special moments possible for people around the world. Because your financial diligence allows your colleagues across the company to stay focused on the core of their work, whether it's getting vital healthcare products to those who need them or fresh fruit to children playing in the park. Finance work at Kuehne+Nagel, means more than we imagine.

Role

You will be responsible for ensuring proper execution + continuous improvement for knowledge-based accounts payables processes, working towards achieving key performance indicators for the financial benefit of the company. You will be part of a project team collaborating closely with internal + external stakeholders to standardize, automate + leverage artificial intelligence to improve financial performance.

Your Responsibilities

• To oversee + execute knowledge-based accounts payable activities across Asia Pacific with experience in the whole purchase to pay process (master data, invoice processing, supplier statement reconciliation and preparation of payment schedules, employee expenses claim).
• To prepare account reconciliations for vendors + suppliers, including performing investigation and addressing issues where necessary.
• To handle first-level escalations promptly and professionally, while appropriately escalating any unresolved issues.
• To ensure, the correctness of the employee expenses claim, check necessary supporting documents are available.
• To check the expenses, claim budget spent as per the Travel application approval in case of travel.
• To check the expenses claims are in line with country’s / local / global policy whichever applicable.
• To conduct training sessions and facilitate knowledge sharing to enhance the skills of specialists and advance specialists in areas and processes that require improvement under assigned country scope.
• Attend meetings to resolve disputed invoices with key vendors and internal stakeholders (BU) to avoid business interruptions.
• To prepare payment cycles for special payments and supplier management.
• To review, analyze, and clean-up bi-monthly aging and debit balances report.
• Update and maintain vendor database promptly and identify improvements to the accounts payable process.
• Be part of a project team to standardize AP processes across Asia Pacific with the help of automation + artificial intelligence.
• To review current processes, ensuring compliance + alignment with corporate guidelines, updating the regional guidelines.
• To ensure all financial reporting requirements and other ad hoc tasks are provided in an accurate + timely manner.

Your Skills and Experiences

• At least a year in Supplier Statement Reconciliation team
• Exposure to vendor escalation management & response time 4 hours
• Proactive & ability to work independently without supervision
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Readiness to train peers on assigned customer scope
• Exceeding Expectations in PPR rating
• Strong analytical skill
• Stakeholder management

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.