Lead Global Payments Analyst - Master Data Management

Brown-Forman Corporation•Louisville, KY

About The Position

The Lead Global Payments Analyst-MDM will collaborate with key stakeholders and identify opportunities to enhance new services and processes where appropriate. They will provide stewardship to assure that quality, operational, financial, and customer satisfaction objectives are achieved, as well as business process, system support and data quality governance for master data through data coordination and integration to ensure efficient processes and consistent data flows to business and stakeholders. The Lead Global Payments Analyst-MDM oversees and facilitates the payment of company liabilities in a timely and accurate manner; oversees both international and domestic banking entry for global worldwide offices, and shares global responsibilities with Senior Global Payment and Treasury Analyst. This role will support the MDM, Treasury, Tax and other AP functions and serve as subject matter expert for various payment initiatives on a global scale. This position will also lead/develop global standard operating procedures and processes and will ultimately be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the Europe, APAC, US and Latin America MDM roles. This job collaborates with and supports responsibilities with the GPO for Master Data Management.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or a related area
Experience: 5+ years of business experience with a financial/accounting focus
Superior attention to detail with top-notch accuracy
Self-motivated with critical attention to details, deadlines, and reporting
Systems experience with global ERP (such as SAP)
Proficiency in English (spoken & written)
Team-player with the ability to create partnerships and build effective relationships with internal and external contacts
Ability to plan, prioritize, and complete work with speed and accuracy
Resourceful, creative, and comfortable with varied job responsibilities
Strong sense of accountability and ownership, and attention to detail
Ability to validate, analyze and sort through large amounts of data
Ability to challenge master data change requests when inconsistent with governance
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Strong problem-solving, presentation, & planning skills.
Solid process understanding and process improvement concepts
Ability to work well autonomously and within a team in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
Strong intellectual curiosity, problem solving and conceptual skills
Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial analysis skills
Able to promote a continuous improvement, cost-effectiveness, timeliness, and incident free mindset
Strong verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning).
Self-motivated with critical attention to details, deadlines, and reporting

Nice To Haves

Payment, treasury, and banking experience
Familiarity with process improvement methodologies
Multi-country experience
Experience in Master Data based roles and tools
Development or Experience in Procurement or Buying Organization
Vendor Management Experience

Responsibilities

Perform oversight associated with the execution, monitoring and auditing of domestic and foreign payment runs(F110).
Ensure all payments to suppliers are accurate and paid on schedule; this includes but is not limited to electronic funds transfers, wires, and checks.
Ensure all taxes and government payments are accurate and paid on schedule; this includes but is not limited to electronic funds transfers, wires, and checks.
Monitor and troubleshoot payment rejections, returns and exceptions on a daily basis to ensure payment due date adherence.
Ensure established financial controls are adhered to and evidence is retained.
Recommend ways to strengthen data integrity, quality and availability across multiple areas.
Proactively ensures master data components meet evolving business and local country requirements.
Help identify and implement process improvements and productivity automation in relation to vendor, customer master data and payment proposal processes.
Establish ongoing, continuous improvement culture and practices in the area of vendor and customer master data and payment proposal processes.
Provide training and support on master data and payment processes to local market users.
Act as a subject matter expert for banking payment requirements of domestic and foreign vendors.
Maintain professional and effective communication with internal and external customers and stakeholders.
Ensure appropriate documentation for all key data processes and local country requirements.
Global oversight and leadership for master data activities in all regions including change, creation, extension and extinction process for vendor, and customer master data.
Responsible for the development/adherence of the global process “Blueprint”, working closely with the GPO Master Data Management.
Implement and maintain treasury best practices, monitor and ensure that corporate policy and procedures are properly complied.
Day-to-day management of GBS MDM functions and Global MDM Analysts, working closely with country/regional and financial leaders.
Conducts testing and system validation to troubleshoot issues related to master data management and systems.
Actively oversees standardized and complete vendor and customer master data pertaining to Route To Consumer market initiatives.
Periodically audits and cleans up vendor and customer master data to ensure information is current, complete and accurate across functions and divisions and support Tax and AP with unclaimed property and escheatment.
Initiate stop/void payments and request cancelled checks from the bank, as needed.
Adds/updates bank details to Vendor bank accounts for domestic and foreign vendors(shared responsibility with Senior Global Payment and Treasury Analyst). Validate all US bank changes with verbal confirmations to help review for potential phishing attempts by bad actors.
Maintains and updates all process documentation.

Benefits

Total Rewards at Brown-Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come.
As a premium spirits company, we offer equitable pay structures for individual and company performance alongside a premium employee experience.
We offer a range of premium benefits that reflect our company values and meet the needs of our diverse workforce.

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