Accounts Payable Associate

At Trojan Technologies, we believe there’s nothing more essential than delivering clean water to the world. That’s especially true in this critical moment, when the world’s supply of clean water is under substantial stress due to industrialization, increasing demand, and rising biological and chemical contamination. Our mission is to stem that tide: to ensure greater water confidence and environmental stewardship for people, industries, and municipalities, improving the lives of over one billion people globally.

As part of our global team, you’ll work alongside customers from municipalities to pharmaceutical and food and beverage companies to build creative, sustainable solutions. You’ll also find a welcoming and supportive team that listens to your ideas and allows you to follow your strengths. All of us feel privileged to work on innovative technologies that bring clean water to the world—we hope you will, too.

Trojan is proud to be one of Danaher's Water Quality companies. Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.

To help drive our Global Finance Team initiatives, we are looking for a full-time Accounts Payable Associate to join our Finance team. The essential function of this position is the maintenance of vendor accounts, including ensuring the validity of all charges to the company through receiving, processing, verifying and reconciling all vendor invoices.

Accountabilities

• Completes payments and controls expenses by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices;

• Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances;

• Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports and recording entries;

• Pays vendors by monitoring discount opportunities, scheduling and preparing payments, and resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation;

• Pays employees by receiving and verifying expense reports and requests for advances; preparing payments; includes auditing expense reports and analyzing spend for trends

• Maintains accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.

• Verifies vendor accounts and vendor files by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions;

• Reports sales taxes by calculating requirements on paid invoices;

• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities;

• Accomplishes accounting and organization mission by participating in AP Team Daily Management

• Expectation to foster continuous improvement and drive efficiencies through process improvements and/or enhancing automation

• Assist in measuring and driving DPO (Working Capital) improvements - working closely with procurement, developing an action plan, and working alongside to execute plan

• Assists others in Finance as required (e.g. Tax, Financial Reporting, etc.)

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of demonstrated Accounts Payable experience

• College degree/diploma, preferably in accounting or business administration

• Proven problem solving, organization, documentation, research, analysis and resolution skills

• Ability to work independently and with a team in a rapidly changing environment with emphasis on accuracy and timeliness

• Demonstrated proficiency with MS-Office products, including intermediate Excel experience (pivot tables, index match, v/h-lookups, if-statements)

• Other languages – written/spoken fluency an asset for our Trojan Europe business: German, Italian, French, Spanish, Norwegian

When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 69,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.

At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve.  Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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