EMEA Accounts Payable Manager
- Recruiter
- Integris Financial Recruitment
- Location
- Slough, Berkshire
- Salary
- £250.00 - £290.00 ltd per day
- Posted
- 17 Jul 2017
- Closes
- 24 Jul 2017
- Ref
- JE/45236
- Job Title
- Purchase Ledger
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Global Organisation urgently requires an EMEA Accounts Payable Manager to join their fast expanding business. The EMEA Accounts Payable Manager is integral to the Purchase-to-Pay function and the wider business, meeting corporate objectives and plays a pivotal role in growing and developing the P2P team. The EMEA Accounts Payable Manager is responsible for managing the EMEA P2P Payments team, ensuring adherence to the policies, processes and service level agreements associated with the processing of payments, including the management of Payment and T&E cards. This role is also responsible for setting, maintaining and monitoring standards and SOX controls for all payment related activity.
Duties of the EMEA Accounts Payable Manager includes:
Manage the Payment team on a daily basis, monitoring individual and team performance in delivering to the agreed process (productivity, customer service, adherence to policy, standards and SLAs etc) and delivering departmental instructions to drive performance
Quickly be able to demonstrate you have a thorough understanding of your own team, system, processes and people
Ensure scheduled payment batch frequency is appropriate at Entity level and adhered to
Define & deliver routine vendor/business communications.
To act as point of contact for any issues / queries relating to Payments made
Act as approver for payments in the banking portal.
Work with local management, system support and global colleagues to ensure EMEA banking, statutory and business critical requirements are reflected in enhancements
Act as first point of contact & provide assistance and documentation for all internal & external audits as required
Monitor, maintain and regularly report on payment batches and unreconciled items in the bank
Identify bottlenecks caused by systems, processes or policies and put forward documented solutions for review & assessment by the P2P management team.
Project work as assigned by the Regional P2P Mgr.
Impact-assess options/change requests/solutions/report content and document
Train, coach & educate the business to drive business compliance
The successful candidate would have prior EMEA/SSC background. Have exposure to Oracle and able to thrive in a changing environment.