[Hiring] Financial Cash Disbursements Analyst @FERGUSON

Role Description

The FCD Analyst role will ensure the daily operations of the FCD team and provide strategic initiative and process improvement for all pre and post payment operations. This includes administrative functions such as:

• Prepayments
• ACH recalls
• Stop payments
• Unclaimed property
• Negative vendor management
• Wire preparation
• Creating various reports for management

This role is open to remote work across the United States or out of Newport News, VA, according to company policy, with East coast working hours.

Responsibilities

• Handle the foreign and domestic wire process from start to finish, including review of invoices, Bills of Lading, account setups, manual checks, and authorizations.
• Assist in working through negative vendor balances and take appropriate actions to mitigate them through credit sells or acquiring refunds.
• Work with a variety of software programs and have a strong attention to details.
• Perform regular reconciliations of accounts payable transactions to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Navigate, research, and analyze system data and knowledge documents to respond to inquiries accurately and advise on root causes to resolve issues.
• Work with Accounting groups to resolve outstanding items on the monthly GL reports.
• Assist in internal and external audits by providing necessary documentation and reports.
• Exhibit understanding of three-way match processes, vendor discounts, and payment terms.
• Work autonomously in completing all assigned tasks and ensuring other admin processes are being performed.
• Identify and resolve issues related to vendor invoices, payment discrepancies, and other accounts payable matters.
• Develop and implement strategies to streamline disbursements processes and enhance efficiency.
• Generate and communicate presentations to large groups.
• Ensure awareness of cross-functional policies and procedures.
• Obtain and analyze quantitative and qualitative data of business processes to determine solutions and promote data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate and communicate with internal and external business partners on findings and areas needing improvement.
• Analyze processes and workflows to understand value chain, input/output, and to improve and/or automate business performance.
• Monitor key performance indicators, determine gaps, and recommend/implement change management techniques for efficiency and operational improvements.
• Prepare departmental reports or charts.
• Perform other duties or special projects as assigned that are specific to the essential operations of Financial Cash Disbursements.

Qualifications

• College degree preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience within the payment processing space or equivalent, with exposure to other functions of the AP process preferred.
• Effective analytical, reconciliation, and reasoning skills to summarize information and clearly identify key elements, trends, results, or relationships.
• Identifies sources of challenges and exercises initiative while using good judgment to make decisions and provide solutions.
• Ability to handle and analyze large amounts of data accurately while maintaining timelines/deadlines/resources adjusting with job objectives.
• Strong use of Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, Access, etc.).
• Strong attention to detail and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k) with a company match.
• Mental health coverage.
• Gender affirming and family building benefits.
• Paid parental leave.
• Associate discounts.
• Community involvement opportunities.