Our client is looking to recruit an Accounts Payable Manager for 6 months to manage and deliver a strong, efficient, and effective Accounts Payable function in line with internal and external governance and regulations.
Responsible for driving efficiency improvements working towards a completely paperless work flow from procurement-to payment, enjoying same-day invoice approval and ensuring payments made consistently on time and within terms.
Strong customer service and communication skills essential to develop and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders deliver a confident, consistent service.
Ensure that purchasing administration from point of order through to payment is administered in line with agreed Service Levels. This includes expense, bursary and credit card management.
- Ensure Suppliers are informed and up to date with payments striving to ensure positive supplier engagement as a baseline to securing favourable terms.
- In managing the Accounts Payable team:
- Ensure that the creditors control accounts and purchase ledger are operated accurately, efficiently and to agreed timescales, and ensure creditors are paid accurately and on time.
- Ensure smooth operation of the payment process and adequate checks in place to ensure correct payments made.
- Ensure that correct coding is in place to ensure that accounting information is correct and can be relied upon.
- Ensure all employee expense processing and auditing is completed on time and in line with internal policies.
- To ensure timely problem and issue management in line with agreed service levels.
- Develop and maintain insightful management reporting on key performance indicators, providing confidence that key controls are maintained, visibility of adherence to agreed service levels and tracking of overall performance improvements.
- Ensure a high level of data quality is maintained to ensure maximum effectiveness of end-to-end processing.
- Drive efficiencies and effectiveness of the team, processes, data, and systems to enable improvements in the end-to-end P2P workflow.
- Develop and lead an efficient and motivated team to delivery of accurate and timely P2P information and results.
- Communication and Stakeholder engagement - maintain effective communication with key stakeholders developing strong and positive relationships.
Experience of Oracle Fusion or similar complex financial systems, e.g. SAP