About The Opportunity

Do you want to be part of this exciting opportunity to join a dedicated team of experts in GKN Automotive?s new Business Services (GBS) situated in Porto?

Working out of recently refurbished, state of the art offices we provide multifunctional support to GKN Automotive?s global delivery activities across Finance, Procurement, HR & Sales Order Management.

Our vision is to deliver sustainable value with standard, consistent, digitally enhanced processes and to achieve this we are seeking to attract highly motivated and skilled professionals. In return we offer a corporate culture which champions professional development, embraces and leads change, creates ingenious solutions for our customers and encourages collaboration.

The Payments Assistant will report directly to the Payments Manager. The role is responsible for ensuring that payment processes are completed timely and accurately for suppliers and staff expense payments.

The Payments Assistant is responsible for ensuring payments are processed within the published SLAs and in line with the policies. The role will also review exception items and escalate pertinent issues if required.

Key Responsibilities

• Process and distribute payments following the procedures
• Check payment proposals have been properly approved
• Activate payment run in system
• Prepare supporting documentation for payment proposal
• Prepare and process the manual and electronic payments as appropriate
• Provide electronic notification of payment to vendor (e.g. remittance advice via email)
• Follow-up and resolve payment issues/queries, stopping payments where appropriate
• Prepare and distribute manual checks as appropriate
• Review exception items and escalate pertinent issues if required
• Ensure the all payments deadlines are met
• Keep detailed records of all payments? transactions
• Process expense reimbursement payments from employees according to policies and conditions
• Notify employees of expense reimbursement payments
• Process all payment runs in line with SLAs
• Perform other reasonable duties within the Procure-to-Pay pillar as required

About Us

GKN Automotive is the market leader in conventional, all-wheel and electrified drive systems and solutions.

With a comprehensive global footprint, we design, develop, manufacture and integrate an extensive range of driveline technologies for over 90% of the world?s car manufacturers.

Diversity and Inclusion

As a global engineering company, innovation is what differentiates us from our competitors and is central to our success.

A balance of cultures, ethnicities and genders help bring new ideas and creativity to GKN Automotive. We need people of different backgrounds, with different skills and perspectives to spark originality, imagination and creativeness in our teams around the world.

GKN Automotive is an equal opportunity employer.

We treat all our employees and applicants fairly and are committed to ensuring that there is no discrimination or harassment against any employee or qualified applicant on the grounds of age, race, creed, colour, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Diversity and Inclusion

As a global engineering company, innovation is what differentiates us from our competitors and is central to our success.

A balance of cultures, ethnicities and genders help bring new ideas and creativity to GKN. We need people of different backgrounds, with different skills and perspectives to spark originality, imagination and creativeness in our teams around the world.

GKN is an equal opportunity employer.

We treat all our employees and applicants fairly and are committed to ensuring that there is no discrimination or harassment against any employee or qualified applicant on the grounds of age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.