Senior Manager - Accounts Payable

7 - 10 years

9 - 12 Lacs

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Job Description

Key Responsibilities and Requirements:-

Organizational and Management Responsibilities:

  • Report directly to the Head of Transactional Accounting, taking full ownership of P2P tasks.
  • Oversee career growth planning and development activities for department members.
  • Provide timely and specific coaching to staff to support their growth and development.
  • Foster an environment where team members are empowered to take ownership and make decisions.
  • Make staffing recommendations, including hiring and terminations, and conduct annual performance evaluations for team members

Technical and Analytical Responsibilities

  • Manage the accurate and timely processing of supplier registrations, contracts, purchase requisitions, vendor invoices, recurring payments, reimbursements, payments (checks, ACH, wires), and expense reports.
  • Lead team management with responsibility and accountability for all defined SLA/KPI.
  • Implement and monitor internal audit controls to ensure zero deficiencies.
  • Create and interpret dashboards to identify, monitor, and resolve process inefficiencies.
  • Develop reporting and analysis as required by the leadership team.
  • Manage projects and drive process change; research and resolve compliance issues.
  • Oversee month-end, quarterly-end, and year-end close processes.
  • Serve as a resource to staff, department managers, and others for interpreting policies, procedures, and regulations relating to A/P.
  • Ensure all customer service requests are resolved within the SLA agreement.
  • Collaborate with leadership and others across brands to facilitate best practices for invoice approval and escalation.
  • Identify inefficiencies in the Purchase to Pay process and lead initiatives to streamline workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and improve overall process efficiency.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement process improvements and drive operational excellence.
  • Lead the analysis of data to identify trends, insights, and opportunities for optimization.
  • Develop and implement data-driven strategies to improve purchasing efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance supplier performance

What You Bring

  • 7-10 years of diverse experience leading Accounts Payable and Purchasing Teams.
  • 3-5 years of experience leading and developing departmental staff.
  • Ability to manage a large team (25+ FTE).
  • Strong interpersonal skills, including persuasive written and verbal communication skills.
  • Solid organizational and project management skills.
  • Ability to effectively interact and communicate with all levels of staff and management to build partnerships with various departments.
  • Experience interacting with internal and external auditors to ensure successful audits.
  • Proficiency in performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel, including V-lookups, pivot tables, and other related software applications.
  • Experience working with Ariba, SAP, Concur, etc.
  • Ability to effectively communicate and influence key stakeholders to support proposed strategies, process improvements, and operational decisions.
  • Critical thinker with resourcefulness and ability to devise, create, and communicate timely solutions to medium-to-complex problems.
  • Passion for providing excellent customer service.
  • Strong multi-tasker with the ability to prioritize and adapt quickly in an ever-changing environment.
  • Ability to think creatively, work independently, and as part of a team to solve problems given limited resources and time, with a strong work ethic and adherence to deadlines.
  • Effectively manage numerous projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

Profile Key Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

  • Commerce Graduate/MBA Inter - CA/CMA

System Skills

  • Intermediate or Advanced Excel skills.
  • Previous experience using a general ledger system

Initiative

  • Ability to undertake initiative and deliver quality results often with competing deadlines.
  • Ability to work independently and autonomously while displaying strong teamwork ethics and attributes

Team Management:

  • Ability to support and mentor team members in their tasks.

Other Skills:

  • Strong listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to understand and assess accounting process issues.
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and meet set deadlines.
  • Ability to review and understand outcomes of work performed

Customer Service

  • Provide exceptional customer service to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong ability to build effective internal relationships at all levels of the organization

Language Skills

  • English proficiency.
  • A second language would be an advantage (French/German/Italian/Spanish)

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