Accounts Payable Manager
Hemel Hempstead, GB
Job Purpose
An experienced Accounts Payable Manager to champion process excellence for the entire group. Responsible for:
- Processing and timely payment of all purchase invoices and credit notes for entities UK10, UK20, UK30, NL10, and KR10 using SAP 4 Hana and VIM.
- Assisting the finance team with goods/service receipts, accruals, and cash flow management at month-end.
- Overseeing expense processing through Concur and ensuring timely submission of all expenses.
- Serving as the primary contact for purchase invoice and payment queries, and reporting monthly status to General Managers and business partners.
- Managing two Accounts Payable Assistants, including setting monthly schedules, delegating and monitoring tasks, conducting training and appraisals, and reconciling supplier statements.
- Monitoring the AP-INVOICE inbox.
- Coordinating with SAP support to address invoice, purchase order, and receipt-related queries within SAP.
- Enhancing and updating training materials for the AP team and business, and organizing regular training sessions and workshops.
Key Responsibilities
- Management of posting and payment of purchase invoices, running reports, ensure payments.
- Month end: ensuring that AP is closed on time, liaising with key business partners and assistant finance team with forecast cashflow.
- Concur: ensure that expenses are processed monthly and there is adherance to policy.
- People management: leading the AP team, ensuring capability, delegating responsibilities, setting goals.
- SAP support and training: be the super user for AP, supporting the team and organisation to utilise the system correctly, training where necessary.
Required Education
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience in managing an international and multicurrency AP department
- Experience in Office Excel and Word
- Experience in leading a team
Technical Competencies
- Experience in SAP preferably SAP4Hana and Vendor Invoice Management
Required Behaviours and Competencies
- Excellent stakeholer management and can clearly demonstate the ability to build positive working relationships with business partners and suppliers
- Ability to work with a high pressure environment and to prioritise accordingly
- Ability to lead a team to work efficiently to meet deadlines
- Has a high attention to detail
- Ability to escalate issues to business partners and suppliers to reach a resolution
Required Languages
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