ROLE OVERVIEW
PURPOSE OF JOB
The role holder will be responsible for managing a team responsible
for the Account Payable and Bookkeeping activities for multiple entities which
span across global jurisdictions with periodic involvement in wider projects
relating to integrations, process review and enhancements.
As the global centralised team remains in its infancy, the role
holder should bring innovation which enables the team to develop efficiencies
in their ongoing processes and experience, taking a lead role in the delivery
of assigned projects.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
- Oversight and management of the team responsible for account payable and payment workloads including supplier, staff, client disbursement and registry accounts ensuring adherence to published timetables each month end.
- Liaise with jurisdictional finance teams relating to supplier and/or other bookkeeping, to promote adherence to published deadlines and timetables in terms of initial delivery to the team of necessary documentation.
- Oversight of processing of ad-hoc / jurisdictional payments and settlement workloads ensuring adherence to published timetables each month end.
- Oversight of Supplier and Team email boxes to ensure delegation of work to achieve agreed departmental turn-around time (SLAs).
- Management of inter-company loan reconciliations, processing of ad-hoc / jurisdictional payments and settlement workloads.
- Provide support in respect of account payable processing projects centred around process improvements, including promotion of together to the team with team’s strive for consistency and standardisation in processing.
- Oversight of further centralisation as opportunity to migrate workloads from local and/or jurisdictional team arise.
- Assume responsibility for oversight of a variety of internal finance and accounting tasks, as the remit of the team continues to centralise and develop beyond account payable bookkeeping activities.
- Oversight of and during periods of absence, cover of Internal Group Entity Transfer Pricing invoicing, journal processing, cash settlements and intercompany working capital loan offsets.
- Review and approval of more complex processing items and business nuances as instances arise.
- Oversight of assigned projects, such as delivery of more automated solutions for payment and expense approval workflows.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
- Experience with managing accounting operations teams.
- Ability to work to deadlines with multiple priorities.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to guide, coach and mentor junior colleagues.
- Project Management experience with multiple stakeholders.
- Proficient with Microsoft packages.
- Hold a relevant Accounting qualification.