At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Process, Governance, Stakeholder Management

• Manage Payment activities in an efficient manner to ensure compliance with relevant policies, procedures, systems, and financial controls.
• Create payment proposals based on the payment calendar and ensures payment is released within specified timelines and process expense reimbursements in accordance with internal control standards, policies and procedures.
• Reconcile initial payment proposal, rectifies disputes, takes necessary approvals prior to the final run.
• Conduct payment proposal reconciliation, fund analysis and availability.
• Coordinate with the Treasury department to ensure availability of funds.
• Resolve disbursements issues in a timely manner and ensures all queries are dealt with correctly and efficiently.
• Recognize and solve non-standard problem within the team. Assist peers in troubleshooting activities within work unit or work collaboratively with other teams to resolve issue relevant to Disbursement function or raise issues that may impact the customer satisfaction; and ensures all queries are dealt with correctly and efficiently.
• Support process governance including regular reporting and analysis to key stakeholders – communicates with internal stakeholders on a regular basis to discuss operational issues, key metrics.
• Support delivery of Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) targets.
• Support General Accounting’s month end/year end closing procedures including AP reconciliations and accruals, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance and financial audits.
• Support internal and external auditors during audits and other data inquiries.
• Completes tasks and meet all compliance related requirements, including audit request, SOX Control and adherence to Elanco policies and procedures with minimal supervision.
• Actively support or participate with any project related to system enhancement, process improvement with influence on accuracy, efficiency, and compliant to payment process.
• Provides or may lead the key improvements to existing processes.
• Undertake other tasks that may be assigned from time to time, as required by Elanco Management.

Skills & Capabilities

• Requires comprehensive of knowledge, understanding or some specialization of Disbursement activities and relationship with the business
• Meticulous in details and post good analytical skills
• Effectively prioritize and complete assigned functional tasks and other deliverables under minimal supervision
• Anticipate and responds flexibly and empathically to customer needs and effectively manage their expectations
• Able to make decisions within procedures and policies that impacting a team or recognizes or identify and solves typical or non-standard issues that may occur in their own work unit or affect the team
• Able to assist peers in solving the typical or non-standard problems of their own work units
• Challenge the status quo and recommends alternative solutions to improve existing processes or solutions and actively work with the relevant stakeholders to drive the improvements
• Positive working attitude with a high degree of initiative and is adaptable to change
• Operational awareness to all applicable US SOX & operational controls in own work unit and ability to demonstrate a strong compliance oriented mindset
• Good interpersonal and influencing skill as frequent communication with stakeholders from various department would be required

Minimum Requirements:

• Diploma/Degree in Finance/Accounting, Business Administration with 2 - 3 years of related industry experience or equivalent in Disbursement or other accounting function in an MNC or Shared Service
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding in the Purchase to Pay processes, specifically Requisitions, Purchase Orders, 2-3 way match, payment types and methods, vendor management requirements, VAT taxes, etc.
• Intermediate knowledge and experience of operating ERP System - SAP Module and MS Office Tools, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Experience using the ServiceNow, or ARIBA modules is a plus but not require
• Have experience in supporting low to medium complexity tasks and participating in a small to medium size project initiatives
• Lean/Six Sigma exposure or equivalent desired
• Progressive mindset and aptitude in learning and adapting to technology and productivity tools
• Proficient in English is mandatory; multi-lingual is required if you support Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Thailand and Vietnam
• Additional hours at critical times (e.g., month-end) may be required. Also, and on an exceptional basis, the role may require work on public holidays
• Support shift duty on rotational basis according to business needs

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status