Accounts Payable Analyst - Wayfair
Boston, MA
About the Job
This position is onsite. The employee will be expected to be in the office Mon-Thurs.
Who We Are:
The Financial Operations team is a multi-talented cross functional team which supports and manages the day-to-day activities for many teams across the organization. The team serves as the Financial service center for all employees, Category Management, Offshore teams, legal, and HR internal to Wayfair while also partnering with major external stakeholders such as our Suppliers and Vendors.
About the job:
The Wayfair Financial Operations organization is growing and looking to add associates to their team in Boston. The Accounts Payable Associate will support the Accounts Payable teams by analyzing data related to supplier/vendor transactions and operations. The ideal candidate will bring strong organizational and planning skills, highly motivated, detail oriented, collaborative, self-motivated, customer oriented mindset, a high sense of urgency and problem-solving abilities to the role.
What You’ll Do:
- Ensure our suppliers/vendors are paid accurately within agreed payment terms
- Educate and guide suppliers from a finance lens throughout their partnership with Wayfair, from onboarding through scaling
- Respond to finance-related questions, concerns, and disputes
- Address all ticket inquiries in a timely manner
- Proactively liaise with Wayfair’s 3rd party providers Offshore team
- Complete the reconciliation process for outgoing payments
- Support Accounting with month- and quarter-end close tasks, including SOX controls and supporting data requests
- Partner & collaborate with all stakeholders impacted by the services & support the P2P end to end process
- Review and validate Vendor Setup requests
- Perform validation checks on Purchase Orders
- Enter and Upload Invoices into the system
- Serve as a point of contact for escalations for suppliers and internal Wayfair business partners
- Provide analyses of what suppliers have sold, allowance and credit structures, and deductions being paid out, as well as opportunities to improve both parties financial standing
- Support the launch of New Business Initiatives and driving them to a scalable and sustainable state from a FinOps lens.
- Challenge the status quo of our current work streams and helping to identify opportunities for optimization and efficiency gains as we continue to scale
- Ensure all processes are documented and assist in the development of the function
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, or a related subject
- 1+ years of relevant financial analysis and/or transactional accounting experience
- Intermediate to advanced experience with Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, SAP, Coupa, SQL or GBQ preferred, but not required
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
- A proactive, detail oriented team player
- Meticulous attention to detail and strong planning and forward-thinking capabilities
- Proficiency in Google Enterprise Suite tools (calendar, mail drive, docs, sheets, slides, meet)
- Extremely high level of discretion pertaining to confidential information
About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.
No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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