Senior Payable Accountant (Temporary - 8 Months)

Job Summary
The Senior Payable Accountant is responsible for managing accounts payable transactions related to plant O&M expenses, ensuring compliance with local GAAP and AES group policies (US GAAP).
The role includes invoice review, payment processing, and supporting month-end closing and financial reporting, while maintaining strong internal controls and collaborating with internal teams, external stakeholders, and auditors.
Accountabilities
The incumbent will be responsible for the processing of accounts payable, ensuring that all payables are recorded and paid on time.
Key Result Areas
• Book keeping and administrative matters concerning key vendors/payable account related to plant's operation & maintenance (O&M) expenses, including consultants, inventories, capitalized items and other O&M related expenses in accordance with local GAAP and AES group's accounting policies based on USGAAP including:
- Receive and organize incoming invoices and statements, and vendor cash advance requests.
- Verify vendor data, tax information, cost center allocation and remittance information. Perform three-way matching for PO related invoices.
- Encode invoices and park of AP invoices in SAP. Monitors vendors with advances to avoid double payment and take note of rehab related invoices.
- Submit parked invoices for posting by the Accounting and Reporting Manager
- Prepare payment proposal in SAP and payment instruction for approval and further processes.
- Preparation of monthly AP-related schedules and reports for review
• Participate in month-end close for accruals and accounts reconciliation and subsequent transactions review in accordance with AES's policies and procedures including timely and complete submission of internal and external financial reporting deliverables.
• Support the analysis, documentation and implementation of appropriate accounting treatments related to unusual transactions (in conjunction with Technical Accounting and local/global audit staffs).
• Collaborate with Plant Site/RO team and tax consultants to obtain information for bookkeeping and month end closing procedures.
• Understand and implement AES's policies and procedures on internal controls
• Participate in preparation of financial reports and other information data for lenders, AES group and local authorities.
• Help facilitate external and internal audit process, compliance with audit timelines and adherence to policy concerning engagement of independent auditors.
• Coordinate with tax consultant and tax manager in monthly, quarterly and yearly tax filling for import tax, license tax, foreign contract tax and corporate income tax.
• Assist in tax audit performed by the tax authorities if any.
• Assist in on-going compliance with requirements of AES internal control procedures including participate in:
- Testing of internal controls as required by AES policy
- Understanding of internal control review results and assistance in reviewing remediation of control weaknesses, particularly relating to financial reporting
- Periodic reviewing of controls to ensure compliance with financial policies/procedures
- Monitoring in the ongoing compliance with requirements of AES Internal Controls
• To be coordinator for SAP implementation.
• Participate in AES Corp and Eurasia/Corp's initiative and improvement projects/plans.
• Perform other tasks assigned by Chief Accountant/Country Controller.