Senior Manager,Accounts Payable

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Job Description

Senior Manager, Accounts Payable

What this job involves:

• The person will be responsible for running and managing the Finance & Accounts processes. Should be subject matter expert of Finance & Accounting processes covering all major activities across AP, AR and GA.

• Should have capability and experience in managing large teams. Ensure a highly motivated and performing team

• Experience in managing multiple stakeholders. Ensure staff performance, team building, motivation and development of the team and establish performance expectations and review the performance on a regular basis

• Providing operational excellence to achieve SLA deliverables

• Work collaboratively with business / clients teams and assume overall responsibility for communication and engagement when transitioning new services and accounts

• Establish deep relationships with key stakeholders, and understand and address process pain points

• Must be able to provide meaningful insights to leaders and stakeholders to ensure informed decisions can be taken by leadership team

• Obtain and maintain deep knowledge of the processes and identify opportunities to drive efficiencies through standardization, continuous improvement, transformation, and bench marking across similar industries.

• Must be able to drive organization strategy, build a strong structure, manage staffing, improve skills and define style in line with the organization s vision

• Always ensure 100% compliance to internal and external audits and controls

• Provide direction and coaching to the operations team to align to organization goals and deliver on commitments consistently

• Proactively share success stories with the leadership organization

• Inculcate a culture of proactiveness and ownership amongst team to drive BAU operations and change through tactical and strategic improvement initiatives

• Ensure attrition rates are below industry average figures. Ensure active participation in recruitment activities

• Mentor operations team in implementing process improvements

Sounds like youTo apply you need to be/have:

• University Graduate / Postgraduate in Finance / Accountancy / Commerce, with ~10 years of work experience in Finance & Accounting, including ~8-10 years of experience of managing teams

• Proven team leadership and people management skills, ability to handle large and diverse F&A teams)

• Proven client management skills. Ability to build impactful customer relationship and drive collaborative behavior and work across multiple hierarchies across internal and external stakeholders

• Deep understanding of business processes, offshore business environment. Must have had prior experience in transitions

• Must be flexible and able to work under pressure, multitask and effectively prioritize.

• Very strong communication skills and awareness of cross geographical cultures

• Ability to coach, mentor and develop talent. Must also be able to hold difficult conversations, whenever necessary

• Six Sigma Green Belt certified (Preferred)

• Proven ability to identify opportunities and drive improvements to closure. Must be self-driven

• Creative thinking, analytical and an innovative mind-set. Must be solution orientated

• Ability to foresee risks, be proactive and predictive while developing risk mitigation plans

• Keen to apply best practices from previous experience and similar organizations

Performance objectives

• Ensure agreed KPIs are met / exceeded each month

• Work within established procedures with a moderate degree of supervision

• Identifies the problem and all relevant issues in straightforward situations, uses analytics and insights as key tools to makes sound decisions/presentations

• Attrition levels at below industry levels

• Succession planning of key resources

• Engage and communicate clearly, confidently and in a concise manner with internal and external stakeholders and see things from their perspective with solution-oriented approach

• Bring a developmental, structured, and organized approach to everything they do

• Thrive under pressure and deal effectively with tight deadlines and high expectations

• Keeps a Stakeholder & process centric approach

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If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don t meet all of the requirements. We re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

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