ABOUT AVIENT:
Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), with 2021 revenues of $4.8 billion, provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Examples include:
• Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy
• Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint
• Sustainable infrastructure solutions that increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resource conservation and fiber optic / 5G network accessibility
• Avient employs approximately 8,700 associates and is certified ACC Responsible Care®, a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and certified Great Place to Work®. For more information, visit www.avient.com.
General Summary:
The Senior Finance Associate ensures timely record and payment through the accounts process. The process is heavily exception based, requiring an aptitude to optimize the tools and systems provided. Relies on experience, judgment and good organizational skills to plan and accomplish position objectives, including problem resolution and procedure compliance.
Essential duties and Responsibilities:
• Handles high volume or high priority vendor accounts.
• Drives problem resolution on large complex vendors.
• Applies all payments recorded and processed for the United States and Canada.
• Enters and processes all invoices and other payment records.
• Provides answers to all internal and external payment inquiries in a manner that is professional and timely.
• Works on problem resolution to ensure proper posting to the company's financial statements.
• Provides documentation and information to auditors regarding account payable systems, processes and payments.
• Validates outstanding accruals and open purchases.
• May oversee the work of Finance Associates on the team.
• Other Duties as assigned.
Scope
This position is responsible for tasks within the United States and Canada.
Competencies:
Personal Skills - Stress Management
Personal Skills - Attention to Detail
Software Skills - Hyperion Financial Management
Personal Skills - Self Motivated
Personal Skills - Analytical Skills
Personal Skills - Time/Priority Management
Software Skills - Microsoft Outlook
Software Skills - Microsoft Word
Software Skills - Microsoft Excel
Personal Skills - Work Independently
Software Skills - SAP
Personal Skills - Work on a Team
Software Skills - Microsoft PowerPoint
Leader of Self - Instills Trust
Leader of Self - Action Oriented
Leader of Self - Collaborates
Leader of Self - Customer Focus
Leader of Self - Situational Adaptability
Leader of Self - Being Resilient
Leader of Self - Demonstrates Self-Awareness
Leader of Self - Communicates Effectively
Education and experience
Associates-Accounting or equiv exp
Finance - Bookkeeping
Finance - Finance
Finance - Accounting
Finance - Accounts Payable
Cross Functional - Manufacturing Industry
WHY AVIENT:
At Avient, we strive for a culture of trust and engagement. Our associates are leading company initiatives such as Lead by Women, HYPE (Harnessing Young Professionals), Pride at Avient and Embrace to advance diversity in professional and personal development. We also provide our associates with robust development programs such as Avient Academy, Lean Six Sigma, and various leadership workshops to allow for career growth in a variety of ways. With workplace flexibility, health and wellness programs, casual dress days, and paid time off for community service, we are committed to building upon our positive momentum.
At Avient, we believe diversity of ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions in hiring, promotion, development, compensation and advancement are based upon non-discriminatory factors such as, for example, qualifications, abilities, experience, and performance.
Avient Corporation is a drug free workplace. Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, color, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran’s status, or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal, state and local law.
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