Accounts Payable Specialist (Germany)

Air Products; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Products in Barcelona is seeking an Accounts Payable Specialist to support AP and supplier services. You will handle supplier queries, resolve invoice discrepancies, reconcile vendor accounts, and contribute to country-specific process implementations.

You will collaborate with Procurement, Vendor Master Data and AP teams to improve processes and KPIs. The role requires strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and proficiency in Excel, with fluent German and English.

Qualifications

• Experience in Accounts Payable, Finance Operations, Supplier Services, Procurement Operations or a similar shared-services' environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate discrepancies and follow issues through to resolution.
• Effective communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with suppliers and internal customers.
• Ability to work accurately with detailed processes, transactional information and vendor accounts.
• Good organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple queries and priorities.
• Fluent German and English.
• Comfortable working with business systems and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.

Responsibilities

• Manage incoming queries from suppliers, buyers and requisitioners, ensuring accurate and timely resolution.
• Investigate and resolve complex supplier and invoice discrepancies by working closely with internal teams and external suppliers.
• Reconcile vendor accounts and identify the root causes of outstanding or incorrect transactions.
• Apply established Accounts Payable processes to solve individual cases while delivering a positive customer and supplier experience.
• Partner with Procurement, Vendor Master Data and Accounts Payable invoice-entry teams to resolve issues and improve processes.
• Support new country and process implementations, developing expertise in relevant country-specific requirements.
• Monitor, maintain and report agreed KPIs and business metrics.
• Provide backup support for other countries where your language capabilities and process knowledge are required, while contributing to ad hoc projects and continuous improvement activities.

Skills

Accounts Payable

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Excel

MS Office

German language

English language

Tools

SAP

Job description

At Air Products, we reimagine what's possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together - where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter - we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.

Reimagine What's Possible

Location: Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Work model: Hybrid

Business area: Finance / Accounts Payable

Join our Team

We are looking for an Accounts Payable Specialist to join Air Products and support our Accounts Payable and supplier services activities.

In this role, you'll be a key point of contact for suppliers, buyers and requisitioners, helping resolve complex invoice and vendor-account queries accurately and on time. Alongside day-to-day supplier support, you'll have the opportunity to become an expert in country-specific processes, contribute to new country and process implementations, and partner with teams across Procurement, Vendor Master Data and Accounts Payable.

As our Accounts Payable Specialist you will ...

• Manage incoming queries from suppliers, buyers and requisitioners, ensuring accurate and timely resolution.
• Investigate and resolve complex supplier and invoice discrepancies by working closely with internal teams and external suppliers.
• Reconcile vendor accounts and identify the root causes of outstanding or incorrect transactions.
• Apply established Accounts Payable processes to solve individual cases while delivering a positive customer and supplier experience.
• Partner with Procurement, Vendor Master Data and Accounts Payable invoice-entry teams to resolve issues and improve processes.
• Support new country and process implementations, developing expertise in relevant country-specific requirements.
• Monitor, maintain and report agreed KPIs and business metrics.
• Provide backup support for other countries where your language capabilities and process knowledge are required, while contributing to ad hoc projects and continuous improvement activities.

As our Accounts Payable Specialist , you will bring..

Required

• Experience in Accounts Payable, Finance Operations, Supplier Services, Procurement Operations or a similar shared-services' environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate discrepancies and follow issues through to resolution.
• Effective communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with suppliers and internal customers.
• Ability to work accurately with detailed processes, transactional information and vendor accounts.
• Good organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple queries and priorities.
• Fluent German and English.
• Comfortable working with business systems and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.

Preferred

• Previous experience with vendor-account reconciliation, invoice queries or supplier-facing Accounts Payable activities.
• Experience in a multinational or shared-services organization.
• Experience supporting process transitions, new-country implementations or continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of SAP.

What we offer

You'll join an international environment where you can build expertise across different markets and processes while working closely with colleagues across Finance and Procurement.

At Air Products we recognise that starting a new job isn't a light decision. To ensure an easy transition, we have built an outstanding onboarding experience to integrate you as our brand-new employee into your new role and the wider organization.

We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices. Compensation decisions are based on objective, role-related criteria such as experience, education, skills and assessed competencies.

Each role has an established pay range. Individual offers are determined within this range. The applicable pay range will be shared with you during this introductory call verbally and then in a system-generated email in writing after the call.

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Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what's possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.