Vodafone - Manager - Accounts Payable

- Subject Matter expertise in the Finance and Accounting Domain with special focus on Accounts Payables.

- People Management coupled with Stakeholder management experience

- Above average knowledge of the Accounts Payables environment under the larger Finance and Accounting domain.

- Excellent communcation, planning and organizing skills

Operational controls

- Address breaches in the P2P Policy and establishing adherence to the Policy

- Manage to service level agreements (SLAs) defined for the team

- Ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the team are met.

- Continuously monitor KPI performance and take remedial action where required to ensure performance and quality standards are met

- Support the team in resolving complex operational control issues

Managing the accounts Payable payment & booking process Dispute Management

- Managing the disputes arising from P2P - AP process. Overdue payments, Price / quantity variances,

- Managing disputes with Opco's and Associate companies.

- Ensure Invoice disputes with relevant partners are resolved

- Monitoring / controlling errors / issues from the payment run

- Monitoring and correcting payment rejections.

- Supervise and continuously improve the invoice booking process

- Managing reconciliation of key vendors

- Supervision of the monthly AP closing activities, balance sheet reconciliation, identify gaps and steps to be taken to correct incorrect entries.

Continuous Process Improvement

- Identify, promote and implement initiatives to improve the P2P process. Driving CPI practices within the team.

- Working closely with new Business partners to enable a transition to P2P process. Moving through the phases of: Stabilisation and delivery world class effectiveness and efficiency.

Compliance

- Ensure that all Vodafone compliance requirements are met: SOX, Internal Audit, External Audit, Key control questionnaires.

- Work with other FSSC and Vodafone departments to ensure all cross department issues are resolved. Such as tax (VAT) compliance, Treasury and cash management for FX rates, R2R for GL coding.

Write off balances in accordance with Group Policy

- Arrange with relevant Opco the approval to carry out the write off resulting from key supplier reconciliation process and GRNI reconciliations

- Any delay in processing of Invoices will delay payments, or inaccurate payments will have a reputational impact and could also involve penalties being imposed on Vodafone.

- Should be able to work well in a team and interact with various internal and external stake holders.

- Establish good understanding of the end-to-end process working closely with the relevant parties viz. Local markets, vendors and internal stakeholders

- Present self as the escalation point and ensure a consistent and professional approach to both supplier and stakeholder queries

- Support the resolution of internal and external invoice and payment queries in line with the department's functional Service Level Agreements

- Respond to and take ownership of any issue relating to day to day activities

- Maintain dialogue with suppliers to ensure invoics comply with specifications

- Take ownership of the continuing maintenance of the supplier master data including supplier bank account information

- Check and validate supplier changes in line with organisational governance and bank audit requirements

- Ensure that monthly supplier reconciliations are actioned within the required Service Level Agreement

- Lead and Manage Account's payable Team Leaders and Analyst.

- Establishing, with the team, the key deliverables and ensuring that the team can deliver against these.

- Coaching, developing and establish succession plans for your team.

- Developing a high performing team, Inspiring leadership, stetting the bar high and delivering beyond expectations.

- As a key member of the FSSC wider leadership team ensure your involvement in driving the successes of the company.

- Identify, promote and implement initiatives to improve the P2P process. Driving CPI practices within the team.

- Working closely with new Business partners to enable a transition to P2P process. Moving through the phases of: Stabilisation and delivery world class effectiveness and efficiency.

- SAP knowledge and basic accounting knowledge is mandatory. Should have working knowledge of the Accounts Payables domain

Should have good communication skills