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)