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Posted: 02/19/2024 Employment Type: Contract Job Number: 41515 Pay Rate: 24.00

Job Description

PAYMENT OPERATIONS ANALYST
The Panther Group has an immediate need for a Payment Operations Analyst in the Boston, MA area.

Summary:
You are passionate about delivering on-time, at-cost, and low risk payment operations. You revel in consistently exceeding customers’ expectations. You want a lead role in managing enterprise level day-to-day accounts payable activities and thrive when executing activities within Invoice to Payment and Time & Expense (T&E) workflows. You are a well-versed disbursement tactician with a continuous improvement and operational efficiency and effectiveness mindset who delivers data driven outcomes. You’re a proven leader, often without authority, and act with a sense of urgency and organizational agility when problem solving and project managing. You desire a supporting role in transforming and automating business processes, deploying a reimagined, data driven, performance management system within enterprise disbursement, and ultimately, delighting our customers.

You have an amazing level of intellectual curiosity, build strong coalitions, possess strong financial acumen, and continuously demonstrate high degrees of ownership, integrity, and attention to detail. You are an independent self-starter who thrives in connecting people and ideas to data and outcomes and have a strong entrepreneurial drive. You excel at communication and are comfortable with a critically important role in a highly visible organization and are always accountable to results.

Requirements:

5+ years of related experience or BA / BS and 2+ years of relevant experience or relevant MBA / MS.
Demonstrated leadership and expertise within the Invoice to Payment and T&E workflows, e.g., invoice acceptance and payment, two- and three-way invoice matching, commercial and grantee payment terms, preferred payment mechanisms, compliance, corporate card programs, electronic expense systems, etc.
Demonstrated ability to effectively utilize disbursement data and trusted advisor relationships to identify opportunities, build cross-functional problem-solving coalitions, continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of assigned activities, and ultimately delivery better outcomes via published performance management framework (e.g., business management system, service level agreements, key performance indicators)
Familiarity with government and state / local payment / disbursement regulations, commercial payment best practices, and techniques / value levers to enhance returns on working capital.
Proven experience of leading payment / disbursement operations activities in a high profile, high transactional volume, high financial risk environment.
Globally minded, self-motivated, flexible, and creative leader, able to prioritize, multi-task, and work horizontally and vertically across a decentralized organization to drive results.
Strong leadership presence and ability to build customer focused “trusted advisor” relationships by delivering sound technical analysis, customer empathy, and data driven decision-making.
Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with ability to lead, interact with, influence, resolve conflict and drive decisions / accountability among individuals from a variety of cultures and disciplines.
Demonstrated flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment, while ensuring the organization is able to navigate transitions effectively and efficiently.
Knowledge of Banner Financials and Concur Expense software desired.
Familiarity with foreign currency transactions and ACH / Bank Wire regulation.
Demonstrated expertise of Microsoft business programs (e.g., Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point).
Demonstrated experience utilizing data warehouse, data analytics, and reporting tools (e.g., Cognos, SQL, R, Python, Tableau, Power BI).
Ability to develop and present educational programs and / or workshops.

Meet Your Recruiter

Amanda Krafcik

Amanda is a Client Success Manager and has 10+ years of experience in the staffing industry. She focuses on finding the best talent for our clients and is a passionate team player. Fun fact: Amanda loves movies and is always watching them or talking about them on podcasts.

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