Brayan Picon
San Joaquín de Heredia
Summary
Skilled Accounts Payable Manager bringing experience providing leadership, training and development to a team of 6 senior accounts payable specialists. Expert in all accounts payable processes such as invoice generation, invoice discrepancies, payments and managing account reconciliation. Expert with end-to-end Retail process for Mexico and Brazil. Successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude, well trained, adaptable and quick learner.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounts Payable Manager (Eng-Por)
Amazon
Heredia
12.2023 - Current
- Monitored daily accounts payable activities and ensured compliance with established internal control procedures.
- Maintained accurate records of invoices, purchase orders, and other financial documents.
- Reviewed vendor invoices for accuracy and completeness prior to payment processing.
- Researched discrepancies between invoice amounts, purchase orders, receiving reports.
- Reconciled monthly statements from vendors and suppliers.
- Conducted periodic audits of accounts payable transactions to ensure compliance with accounting policies and procedures.
- Provided guidance to team members regarding complex billing issues or payment inquiries.
- Facilitated monthly team meetings to discuss more efficient procedures and eliminate duplicated efforts or antiquated processes.
Senior Accounts Payable Analyst (Eng-Por)
Amazon
Heredia
09.2018 - 11.2023
- Conduct well rounded, data-driven escalations, supporting issue resolution through action plans proposal and follow ups
- Work closely with finance operations teams in different locations for timely transaction processing
- Collect and analyze quantitative and anecdotal data with the purpose of resolving root causes and improving AP processes
- Provide insights for monthly metrics and provide analysis of the main root causes to be compiled on a weekly/monthly basis to report to business partners, finance teams and directors
- Analyze key vendor trends with other team members to propose improvement plans
- High level understanding of Mexico and Brazil marketplaces + tax treatments
- Reconcile, audit, and monitor vendor accounts with high complexity
- Engage with retail, tax or accounting for vendor inquires resolution
- Partnering with vendors to resolve account statement discrepancies
- Research payment issues and outstanding balances
- Support organizational/operational projects
Fraud Prevention Representative
SYKES
Heredia
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Assist account holders with lost or stolen cards reports.
- Analyze transactions to detect suspicious activity and protect customer accounts.
- Monitor customer transactions to identify fraudulent activity such as account take over, friendly fraud, theft and similar other risks.
- Identify fraudulent transactions and cancel them from further processing.
- Handle inbound calls to file inquiries about fraudulent or suspicious transactions.
- Reach out to customers flagged with suspicious behavior to verify account activity and release holds
- Interact with banks and customers to validate information and to confirm or cancel authorizations.
- Determine existing fraud trends by analyzing accounts and transaction patterns.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration -
Universidad Hispanoamericana Heredia
05.2023
Licentiate of Banking and Finance -
Universidad Hispanoamericana Heredia
12.2021
Skills
- Quality Assurance
- Training and mentoring
- Trained in ORACLE
- QuickSight for Data Analysis (Create dashboards to show a comprehensive and friendly-user overview of data insights)
- Proficient in Excel (Formulas, pivots, dynamic tables, power query and vba)
- Proficient in SQL (Able to extract, transform and analyze data for decision making)
- Python for Data Analysis (Object-oriented programming, classes, collections and iterators, dictionaries, file manipulation, regex, numpy, pandas etc)
- Account Reconciliation
- Process Improvements
Languages
- English: Professional
- Portuguese: Professional
Timeline
Accounts Payable Manager (Eng-Por)
Amazon
12.2023 - Current
Senior Accounts Payable Analyst (Eng-Por)
Amazon
09.2018 - 11.2023
Fraud Prevention Representative
SYKES
01.2017 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Business Administration -
Universidad Hispanoamericana Heredia
Licentiate of Banking and Finance -
Universidad Hispanoamericana Heredia
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