Accounts Payable Specialist

WME has a great opportunity for an Accounts Payable Specialist to join the team in Milan.

Role and What You’ll Do

• Vendor invoices posting (IT, EU, Extra‑EU)
• Receive and codify electronic vendor invoices via dedicated platform
• Manage vendors database (providing information to the Vendor Master Data team and setting up vendors efficiently)
• Analyze contracts and related expense reports
• Keep the monthly accounting records for the processing of balance sheets and other financial statements within the Accounts Payable perimeter
• Support monthly closing: make accruals, verify the status of prepaid expenses and invoices, extract information and reconcile in full autonomy
• Perform bank reconciliation for payments and collections posting
• Accounting management of vendor payment requests to support weekly cash flow (advance payments, payments due, exchange rate difference reconciliation, etc.)
• Prepare VAT, LIPE, Esterometro, Intrastat declarations autonomously
• General ledger accounting: perform accruals and manage giro account postings
• Support client accounting and provide giro account postings when requested
• Prepare WTH and FATCA declarations; previous experience with U.S. tax requirements required
• Analyze T&E expenses for accounting correctness and rule compliance

Technical Skills

• Skilled in SAP and MS Excel; experienced user capable of managing reports with intermediate-level formulas and extracting cross-source information
• Knowledge of CRM tools; prior experience with CRM tools highly requested for data extraction and checks

You Have These

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance and Control, or similar
• Tax/Statutory Advisor or Chartered Accountant firm experience preferred
• +5 years of all-around accounting experience in small/medium companies
• Fluent in Italian and English (must-have)
• Quick learner, self-starter, communicative, proactive, helpful, team player