Accounts Payable Manager

SUMMARY:
Ready to step into a senior finance role where leadership, impact, and global exposure come together?

POSITION INFO:
Company and Job Description:
My client is seeking an experienced Senior Accountant to join a high-performing Finance shared-service environment. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented finance professional with strong leadership capabilities and a solid background in accounts payable operations across multiple regions.

Reporting to the Head of FP&A and Transformation, the Senior Accountant will oversee the day-to-day activities of the Accounts Payable function, ensuring accurate processing, strong controls, and consistent service delivery. You will act as a key finance partner to operational teams while leading, coaching, and developing a sizeable AP team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee daily accounts payable operations and ensure agreed service levels are met
• Review and sign off supplier and intercompany reconciliations
• Act as a finance accountability partner to operations teams
• Process and release outgoing payments in line with financial policies and procedures
• Monitor team performance and report key KPIs to senior management
• Train, coach, and develop accounts payable team members
• Prepare and report on the status of vendor accounts and resolve discrepancies
• Manage supplier queries and complaints, ensuring timely communication and resolution
• Escalate unresolved issues appropriately
• Perform day-to-day AP processing, including verification, classification, and posting of supplier invoices
• Onboard new suppliers in accounting and banking systems in line with regional procedures
• Ensure timely and accurate processing of intercompany invoices
• Process employee expense claims in compliance with company policies
• Ensure correct allocation of expenses to cost centres and accounts
• Support finance-related administrative tasks and audit requests
• Structure work hours to ensure continuity across multiple global time zones