Purchasing & Accounts Payable Specialist, Finance

This is a (up to) 14 months contract for a maternity leave. 

This role requires a presence at the office of (minimum) 3 days per week. 

Joining AbbVie means you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients lives. At AbbVie we conduct ground-breaking science on a global scale every day. AbbVie Canada is one of the Best Workplaces in Canada whereby 92% of our employees are proud to say they work for AbbVie.

When choosing your career path choose to be remarkable.

AbbVies mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on peoples lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology oncology neuroscience eye care virology womens health and gastroenterology in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

The Purchasing & Accounts Payable Specialist roles primarily for providing the local expertise and support for accounts payable and some purchasing activities. The Purchasing and Accounts payable specialist is expected to work closely with the BPO FSS Local Indirect spend Requestors (SRM users) and Supervisor-Accounting services to work through the financial close process to produce financial statements in accordance with AbbVies policies and procedures US and CDN GAAP.

Key responsibilities

• Purchasing and Accounts payable.
• Support for a Large Business Unit with high volumes.
• Maintain and administer vendor master file.
• Request new local vendor set up.
• Complete 3rd party process.
• Processing approx. 10000 non PO invoices (ACR) including Image invoices and sales tax coding.
• Process Image invoices for PO invoices (when received at the Affiliate forward and track to Iron Mountain).
• Requisition and approve indirect spend for department where no admin or coordinator is in place (approx. 500 requisitions/year).
• Process receipts for department where no admin or coordinator is in place.
• Request New Shopping Cart items. 
• Local Key User (LKU) 20% of responsibilities including training SRM users and Go To Subject Matter Expert within the Affiliate.
• Recommend Process improvements and works with Foundation PTP Team.
• Liaison with BPO Purchasing Agent BPO AP and Purchasing PSM COE.

Qualifications :

Education / Experience required

• Bachelors degree in accounting (a plus).
• 2-3 years of experience in Accounts payable.
• Experiences in a purchasing function (a plus).
• Experience with SAP.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment. 
• Very good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Great Initiative and self-motivating.

Essential skills and abilities

• Experience with SAP and other accounting systems preferred.
• Microsoft Office - intermediate level in excel

• Intermediate Accounting

AbbVie strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec. Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the following requirement advanced amount of knowledge of English / Fluency in English is an essential requirement for the position of Purchasing & Accounts Payable Specialist including but not limited to for the following reasons:

1. English speaking employees outside the province of Quebec.
2. English speaking clients outside the province of Quebec.
3. Anglophone region outside the province of Quebec.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women Aboriginal people persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply.

Additional Information :

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity driving innovation transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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