Accounts Payable Manager

Our client is seeking a highly capable Accounts Payable Manager to join their Leadership team.

This role offers an exciting opportunity for a high calibre leader to develop the team to achieve business objectives ensuring consistent performance.

The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the function and supporting the Head of Accounts Payable to take accountability for ensuring relevant audit and governance compliance.

With a core objective of maintaining a well-organised Accounts Payable function, ensuring adequate controls and quality checks are in place and maintaining a high standard.

• Opportunity to lead and influence across the business
• Responsibility for all aspects of the Accounts Payable function
• Chance to drive process and control improvements

As an Accounts Payable Manager, your role will be pivotal in leading and influencing across the business to promote efficiencies and excellent customer service. You will have day-to-day leadership responsibilities of the Accounts Payable team; monitoring the end-to-end process & individual team members performance against agreed key performance indicators on a regular basis. Your role will also involve acting as a key contact regarding all AP, expenses, or supplier payment issues, ensuring accountability for managing service against any escalated queries or complaints in the team.

• Lead the Accounts Payable team, monitoring performance against key indicators
• Oversee reconciliation of supplier statements to AP Ledger
• Act as key contact for all AP, expenses, or supplier payment issues
• Ensure preparation of payment runs, performing all necessary controls and checks
• Take accountability for managing service against agreed key performance indicators
• Work with IT and systems processionals to maximise efficiencies through use of enabling technologies

The ideal candidate for this Accounts Payable Manager position will bring demonstrable experience of leading an end-to-end Accounts Payable process, preferably in a Shared Services environment. You will have experience of quality checking work and implementing checks and controls in a team. Your ability to lead and motivate a team including goal setting and performance management will be crucial in this role. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential, along with the ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced dynamic environment.

• Proven experience leading an end-to-end Accounts Payable process
• Experience leading, implementing and championing change
• Strong attention to detail with a commitment to high quality and accuracy
• Ability to lead and motivate a team including goal setting and performance management
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience working with multiple locations, business units and currencies

In return you will receive an above market rate salary, individual bonus, attractive benefits package as well as star and finish time

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