Jocelyn M. Vicente
Summary
Possesses extensive experience in SAP and ERP systems, demonstrating a strong ability to optimize processes and enhance operational efficiency. Proven track record of managing multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining exceptional time management skills, ensuring deadlines are consistently met. Adept at thriving in fast-paced environments where both quality and speed are critical, leveraging analytical and mathematical skills to drive data-informed decision-making. Strong problem-solving capabilities combined with meticulous attention to detail and substantial banking experience contribute to delivering high-quality results.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounts Payable Payments Specialist
Sealed Air Shared Services
01.2025 - Current
- Played a key role in accepting and stabilizing the transition of Accounts Payable specifically Payments processes from a third party outsourcing company to Sealed Air Shared Services.
- Prepares and reviews non-procedural payment reports to ensure accuracy and compliance as part of specialist responsibilities.
- Act as point of escalation for the task the AP Analyst cannot perform, taking ownership of complex payment processing and reconciliation as Payment Specialist.
- Manage Supply Chain Finance (SCF) payments, including funding and reconciliation in coordination with external SCF providers and internal treasury teams.
- Responsible for the Netting cycle process for the intercompany and third party vendor payments to optimize cash flow and minimize transaction costs from Currency Offering to Netting Settlement to Netting Clearing.
- Perform AP to GL clearing activities, ensuring timely resolution of open items for accurate month-end close and financial reporting.
- Conduct AP Aging Report, Processing for vendor payments, ensuring accuracy and alignment with internal controls and payment schedules.
- Generate, analyze and resolve items on the exception list report to identify and resolve payment discrepancies or holds.
- Review and process manual payment requests for urgent or exception-based vendor disbursements.
- Execute one-time vendor automatic payment runs, ensuring proper documentation and approvals are in place.
- Execute and monitor automatic payment runs for third-party vendors, ensuring timely and accurate disbursements across the EMEA region
- Process travel and expense (T&E) reimbursements, ensuring compliance with the company policies and regional tax requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Bank Reconciliation Team, Cash Application, Team, GL Team, Treasury, Procurement and Controllership to address issues, support audits and improve payment processes.
- Maintain compliance with SOX, internal controls, and regional financial regulations.
Accounts Payable Specialist
Digital Offshoring (Moveo)
04.2023 - 06.2024
- Manages disbursement of funds for agency expenses.
- Verifies vendor invoices match POs, IOs have the proper job # on them and are entered in Silent Partner on a timely basis.
- Reviews and approves payments to vendors, contractors, etc.
- Check runs are on a weekly basis and mailed out allowing at least 3 business days for delivery.
- Helps prepare accounting-related entries.
- Works with the EM’s for the quarterly reports
- Manages accounts reconciliations (for example: AMEX)
- Maintains the fixed asset schedule
- Works on month-end and year-end close process
- Assists in creating tax schedules for outside accountants
- Assists in pulling support for audits
- Assists in other Accounting work unrelated to AP
- General Duties
- Produce scheduled and ad hoc weekly, monthly, and quarterly Excel reports.
- Develop report analytics to assist agency forecasting.
- Serve as agency subject matter expert, trainer and liaison
Accounts Payable Officer
MedHealth Australia (under AS White Global)
03.2021 - 03.2023
- Undertake the processing of all creditor invoices across all subsidiaries in the MedHealth Group including the interfaces with relevant supporting case management systems.
- Establish creditors and reconcile creditor transactions and trial balances.
- Undertake the preparation and drawing of all cheques with required signatures.
- Manage EFT payments, bank debit and credit entries.
- Provide advice and assistance, as necessary, to management and staff on accounts payable and purchasing processes and requirements.
- Maintain the accounts payable system, including all supplier records and other relevant information to ensure that the records are up to date and accurate.
- Prepare and issue accounts payable related correspondence to stakeholders.
- Maintain and reconcile the accounts system to ensure it balances correctly.
- Follow all accounts payable policies and procedures, including obtaining relevant authorizations.
- Assist AR Team in Allocation
Account Executive
Jarta (S) Pte. Ltd.
07.2019 - 02.2020
- Analyze, investigates and process all checks for reimbursement to the company, including personal charges and cash advances.
- Responsible for processing invoices (hotel and restaurant) within the agreed SLA, and other expenses of the company.
- Assist with answering general end user inquiries through both phone and email.
- Support monthly close process, including auditing expense reports.
- GST filing report.
- Completing daily, weekly and monthly reconciliations, along with research and follow through of unreconciled items, for assigned accounts.
- Analyzing and recording all appropriate debit and credit adjustments.
- Adhere to established procedures for compliance and efficiency in an effort to reduce outstanding items and bank service charges.
- Prepare accurate, timely and complete journal information for the recording of reconciling entries to appropriate accounts.
- Responsible for the identification, accounting and reporting of information related to the reconciliations performed
AP Executive (EMEA team)
Verizon Communications Singapore Pte. Ltd. under RGF HR Agent
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Reviews all invoices for appropriate documentation and approval to payment and charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice reports; recording entries
- Pays vendors; resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentations; insuring credit is received for outstanding memos; issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments
- Process 3 way PO matching invoices
- Responsible for processing Check requests
- Responsible for processing Manual Invoice
- Responsible for processing UK, Sweden and Denmark Invoices
- Responsible for Payment and Budget Forecast for the Nordics (Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, 3x per week) and UK country
- Responsible for Aged Debt Clean up for Vendor (Germany), GR/IR clearing
- Ensuring compliance to corporate policies, country VAT requirements
- Maintain files and documentation thoroughly and accurately, in accordance with company policy and accepted accounting practices
Trade Processor
Citco Fund Services
08.2011 - 02.2012
- Analyze, process Subscriptions, Redemptions, Transfer and Switches trade documents
- Entry of all trade activity within the global business unit, meeting established timelines
- Ensure high accuracy standards are maintained for the entry of trade activity
- Maintain solid working knowledge of multiple systems for the processing of trades
- Follow fund specific instructions/variables
- Extract and Explore the Axeo environment to get the necessary data to ascertain the document processed
- Responsible for investigating the trade documents if duplicate, revision or cancellation
- Responsible for the creation of investors data and bank details
- Responsible for investigation if the fund is sufficient enough for the requested trade document
- Attends to other adhoc project mandate by the manager
Analyst
Shell US Products, (Finance Operations Data, Material Master), Shell Business Service Centre
11.2009 - 04.2011
- Responsible for maintaining the Shell Product data integrity specifically the Accounting, Costing, Taxation and Excise Duty.
- Analyzes, computes and process the Moving Price and Standard Price of Shell product globally.
- Perform data analysis, mapping, cleansing, correction, and documentation as required for GSAP roll-in countries
- Inform any errors to data providers and proactively follow up to ensure resolution is achieved
- Interact on a limited but appropriate basis with Shell contacts in roll-in countries to understand status of Legacy data and deliverables
- Recognizing complex positioning, data updating through knowledge data sharing.
- Self-monitors and reports on progress of work in relation to work schedule and ensure Supervisor and Shell customers are made fully aware of status at agreed to intervals;
- Solicits feedback for continuous master data process improvement;
- Identify and progress actions that are needed to assure delivery of key targets
Accounting Specialist, Purchase to Pay, (Accounts Payable) North America
Henkel Asia Pacific Service Centre
11.2007 - 09.2009
- Analyze, process, and standardize North Americas invoices in less than 3 days upon receiving the documents
- Extract from and explore in the SAP environment, the necessary data to ascertain documents processed
- Process suppliers’ invoices and pay accurately on time
- Ensure that the invoice is matched with the Purchase Orders and Goods Receipt
- Perform historical and in depth research for the queries from the vendors through emails regarding their invoices
- Responsible for monthly reconciliation
- Responsible for verifying, checking and reimbursing employees claims
- Maintains positive vendor relationships by providing the highest level of customer service
- Validates vendor statements and inquiries, investigates discrepancies, and communicates with vendors and internal personnel to find invoices.
- Technical know how:
- SAP processing
- Business Accounting Transactions
- Computer Proficiency
- Responsible to work within the framework of the finance team in processing of all supplier invoices and all employee travel expenses and claims for payments
- Attend to simple client queries on mandate of senior analyst, team manager or group manager
Research Analyst/ Financial Analyst
The Thomson Reuters
03.2007 - 08.2007
- Analyze, update, process, and standardize annual and quarterly financial statements of Malaysia, with emphasis on Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Profit & Loss, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Per Share Record, and Business & Geographic Segment Data
- Gather financial and non-financial information such as addresses, officers information, subsidiaries, shareholdings data, major acquisitions and disposals, financial calendar, and Standard Industry Codes (SICs) of US publicly listed companies
- Ensure the integrity of Thomson Reuters’ web content, data feeds, and quantitative models by performing accurate, timely and complete updates in databases in accordance with the policies of Thomson Extel and Worldscope
- Monitor and update transactions daily to enrich the database and to guarantee quality and timeliness of information provided
- Perform in-depth research of client companies by utilizing business research tools such as Thomson Research, Thomson ONE Banker, Thomson ONE Analytics, DataStream, and various stock exchange websites
- Perform historical and present data analysis, with the goal of providing clients with standardized/normalized financial data
- Attend to simple client queries on mandate of senior analyst, team manager or group manager
New Accounts/Sales and Service Staff
East West Banking Corporation
07.2005 - 07.2006
- Responsible for processing term placements in accordance with established guidelines (such as opening, renewal, rollover, termination or pre-termination of accounts).
- Designated as alternate Signatory C
- Primary responsible for establishing the identity of a prospective depositor.
- Computes for the accrued interest, adjustments, prepares accounting tickets.
- Monitors maturity and implements clients’ instruction regarding the disposition of placements.
- Quotes buying/selling rate and processes the sale/purchase of FX currency.
- Prepares bank certification upon client’s request.
- Acts as petty cash and ATM card custodian.
- Prepares daily cash proof and assists officer in counting Cash-In-Vault at the end of the day.
- Actively gets involved in the cross selling and internal marketing efforts of the branch.
- Experienced in Telling
- Responsible for rendering courteous, pleasant, efficient, accurate and prompt customer service relative to opening of new accounts as well as other bank products and services.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management Accounting
Notre Dame of Dadiangas University
03-2004
Skills
- SAP and ERP management
- Accounts payable general ledger clearing
- Netting
- Payment report analysis
- Ageing analysis report
- Payment processing expertise
- Proficient in ACH and wire transactions
- Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Hardworking, independent, reliable, excellent team player, excellent initiative, cooperativeness and influence in job area
Timeline
Accounts Payable Payments Specialist
Sealed Air Shared Services
01.2025 - Current
Accounts Payable Specialist
Digital Offshoring (Moveo)
04.2023 - 06.2024
Accounts Payable Officer
MedHealth Australia (under AS White Global)
03.2021 - 03.2023
Account Executive
Jarta (S) Pte. Ltd.
07.2019 - 02.2020
AP Executive (EMEA team)
Verizon Communications Singapore Pte. Ltd. under RGF HR Agent
01.2013 - 01.2014
Trade Processor
Citco Fund Services
08.2011 - 02.2012
Analyst
Shell US Products, (Finance Operations Data, Material Master), Shell Business Service Centre
11.2009 - 04.2011
Accounting Specialist, Purchase to Pay, (Accounts Payable) North America
Henkel Asia Pacific Service Centre
11.2007 - 09.2009
Research Analyst/ Financial Analyst
The Thomson Reuters
03.2007 - 08.2007
New Accounts/Sales and Service Staff
East West Banking Corporation
07.2005 - 07.2006
Bachelor of Science - Management Accounting
Notre Dame of Dadiangas University
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