Accounting Analyst

**Overview**:
The purpose of this role is to review, analyse, project coordinate, administrate and process property or b2c (business to consumer) activities.

This role sits within the Property Leasing and Administration team and is the intermediatory between bp SME’s, 3rd party providers, international HUB, and employees nationally and o/seas.

**Responsibilities**:
**Responsibilities**

**Payments**
- Prepare and process payment files in line with critical payment dates.
- Ensure cost are processed on time to avoid penalties.
- Manage credits, changes, remittance, adjustments, reimbursements, dishonors, BPAY rejections other queries.
- Coordination of 3rd party relationship, payment data, accruals, and reporting.
- AP & AR HUB co-ordination and problem solving.
- Problem solving and coordination of issues or queries across the E2E processes e.g., Vendor, customer, IT, landlord or tenant queries.
- Process DTP creation, validation, and maintenance.
- System root cause analysis with IT HUB and issue management.

**Continuous Improvement and prescribed projects**
- Assess, review, and execute project queries.
- Map project related activities, meetings/sprints, artifacts and project tools, milestones, and timelines in conjunction with dependencies, vendor, or customer timelines.
- Coordinate stakeholders, activities and priorities and ensure delivery milestones/timelines are met.
- Simplification of processes and improved reporting mechanisms
- Improved 3rd party digitisation and integration of processes
- Assess, review, and look for innovation opportunities across the portfolio.
- Root cause analysis and issue management.

**Reporting and analysis**
- Aged item reviews.
- Critical date reviews.
- Project reporting or data review, validation.
- Utility Matrix or sustainability reporting.
- Posting/cashflow execution.
- Ad hoc data formation, insights, and slide preparation.
- Month end support.
- General accounting operational activities

**Connections**
- Property Group/B2C Teams
- Landlords/Tenants
- 3rd party suppliers
- Analysts
- Consult and connect with other teams, or peers to problem solve issues.
- Support and learn other areas within the team to support leave and operation continuity.

**Qualifications**:
**About you**

**Education and Experience**
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Accounting, or related field.
- Journals and payment experience e.g., accountants payable or receivable.
- Utility, Lease, other real estate operation payment experience good to have, but not essential.
- Project, change, transition, or agile experience.
- Excellent relationship builder and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in general and/or financial area of a large volume payments, reporting or delivery.
- Strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Good organizational skills - high attention to detail.
- Adaptive and flexible mindset.
- Bias for action underpinned by a strong work ethic, teamwork and proven track record of value added.

**Preferred Criteria**
- Excel - Experienced to super user.
- Sound accounting experience.
- SAP or other ERP payment system experience.
- Project experience.

**About rhi**

rhi is a professional services provider with global expertise. Tracing our history back to the 19th century, we have spent the last 50 years as a global leader to the energy industry.- We combine efficient systems and processes with a deep understanding of client challenges and market insight. We work with our clients to deliver information and resources that will support every stage of their operations. We deliver value to our employees, our clients and the countries that we work in.-
**Diversity Statement**

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