Payment Specialist

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of payment activities from the generation of the payment proposal, the application and removal of payment holds through to the coding and release of the final payment file

• Adheres to the documented payment controls

• Ensure adherence to the defined controls, from the review or the payment proposal through to the release of the final payment file to the bank

• Support manual payment activities as needed

• Support the transition of additional countries into the Shared Service Center

• Identify and present solutions for continuous process improvement

• Review and propose changes to Accounts Payable policies and procedures as dictated by market and company changes and/or industry, in addition to changes in personnel, department practices and systems

• Prepare payment proposals and process approved supplier and employee payments

• Creation of forecast for the Treasury teams and other business functions visibility as required

• Responsible to ensure correct cash flow management – no early payments without justification done

• Review, troubleshoot and resolve bank reconciliation differences along with A2R teams in a timely basis

• Review, troubleshoot and fix rejected & returned payments in a timely basis (within the same month)

• Support Month End Close activities relevant to the payment team or the entire P2P function as required

• Answer tickets coming from other teams about payment requests in a timely manner

• Support auditing process / requests in a timely manner

Qualifications:

• Functional knowledge of Accounts Payable processes, including Travel & Expenses
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Highly organized
• Ability to meet strict deadlines
• Excellent customer service skills

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Accounting or Finance, with two+ years of related professional experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in accounting and financial systems
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
• Experience in interfacing with key stakeholders to resolve issues
• Language skills as specified

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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