SR Accounting Analyst

Company Description

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.

We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition.

Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team.

When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.

Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course.

Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Job Description

JOB PURPOSE
The Accounts Payable (AP) Specialist is responsible for AP Process and associated enablers / solutions. The individual is heavily involved in defining business requirements, design, development, and deployment of AP projects. The Accounts Payable Specialist will be tasked with identifying process improvement opportunities and developing a clear forward-thinking strategy.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
SAFETY, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
• Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are carried out ethically and in compliance with Company’s Security, Compliance & HSE policies, Management System, relevant laws, regulations, standards, and industry practices and complies with the Company’s Rules to Live By
• Places Quality, Health & Safety, Security, and protection of the Environment as core values while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers, or the communities in which we live and work at risk
• Seeks continual improvement in Health, Safety, Security & protection of the Environment, taking into account responsible care, process vulnerabilities, public, customer and employee inputs, knowledge and technology and best business practices to exceed customer expectations

QUALITY
• Responsible for being familiar with the Company's Quality policies and takes an active role in the compliance and improvement of Weatherford’s Management System
• Maintains service quality as immediate priorities when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement

OPERATIONS
• Oversight of Accounts Payable Process identifying process improvement opportunities focus on providing exceptional service to both internal customers and vendors
• Point of contact for AP process escalation. Specialist must be capable of understanding the system application technical aspects, related interfaces, and data structures to resolve escalation scenarios
• Serve as the lead contact for AP for internal and external audits
• Evaluate current and new process solutions to provide recommended improvements and standardization
• Regularly interface with other teams to resolve escalations, invoice discrepancies and disputes in a timely manner
• Develop and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy of invoice and payment processing, which includes automation project initiatives, testing new functionality and supporting system upgrades
• Drive ownership of key deliverables across organization wide stakeholders in order to implement better process design and scalable solutions
• Develop, update, and maintain service level agreements and SOP process documentation
• Assists the Source to Pay (S2P) Manager in developing policies and procedures with effective controls to mitigate relevant process risks
• Identifies and tracks Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and operational metrics to ensure AP program objectives are met; ensure transparency and sharing with stakeholders
• Work with AP offshore team to perform periodic AP related process and data sanity checks
• Collaborate with relevant organization wide stakeholders to understand AP related Business Process and IT Requirements to provide AP Data / Actionable Insights via relevant Analytics Solutions (Power BI or other data visualization tools)

COMMUNICATION
• Maintains effective collaborative communications with all key stakeholders both internal and where appropriate external
• Provides timely, clear, concise, and appropriate information, including project status to stakeholders as identified

FINANCIAL
• All employees have an accountability to the organisation to be financially responsible whether they are in charge of a function budget or simply their own expenses
• Costs incurred should be within approved budget, processed within agreed time frames & following the relevant financial policy and procedure

PEOPLE & DEVELOPMENT
• Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance & business standards training to enhance their knowledge, skills, and experience
• Employees should engage on a regular basis with their line manager to discuss their personal performance, objectives, and opportunities to enhance their skills and experience to support their career potential

VISION & LEADERSHIP
• Demonstrates professionalism, ethical behaviour, and adherence to Weatherford standards at all times
• Provides vision, leadership, planning, and program management for the design and development of the in-scope Weatherford AP processes

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
REQUIRED
• Bachelor’s degree in related field plus at least 5+ years of experience
• Experience in policy and process development/improvement
• Experience assessing, designing, and documenting processes including process flows and maps
• Experience working with enterprise resource planning systems (ERP)
• Experience with AP automation solutions
• Experience with complex procure-to-pay solutions required
• Experience developing and delivering training

PREFERRED
• Accounts Payable certification (APS or APM) or Procure to Pay certification desired
• Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt) or process improvement certifications desired

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES
REQUIRED
• Ability to influence organizational changes and teams without organization authority
• Brings a strategic mindset to driving solutions and is highly focused on delivering results
• Project development and leadership for process and system enhancements
• Advanced excel skills required
• Basic knowledge of general ledger accounting and reconciliation accounts
• Experience developing and delivering training
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Complex and creative problem-solving
• Self-starter with strong project management skills
• Good organizational, interpersonal, computer, oral and written communication skills
• Procure to Pay related ERP knowledge

• Basic knowledge of general ledger accounting and reconciliation accounts

PREFERRED
• Knowledgeable or first-hand experience with upstream oilfield services work processes
• Applications: Power BI Dashboard, Visio, SharePoint, MS Office Pro
• Inspyrus AP automation solution experience strongly preferred