Global Head - Accounts Payable - CA

Essential Education & Experience

- Chartered Accountant with min 15+years exp

- Strong understanding of procurement and general accounting practices with detailed knowledge of accounts payable and invoice processing practices

- Minimum of 15 years plus experience managing a client-service oriented function with experience in management of large corporate initiatives/projects, strategic thinking, relationship management, financial budgets and processes

- On hand experience in Accounts Payable and Invoice processing process on SAP, JDE and Ariba Guided Buying

- Experienced in recruiting, developing and coaching employee

- Direct process management experience including best practices, driving innovation, continuous improvement, technologies, processes, procedures and tools.

Key Accountabilities and challenges:

- Accountable for service delivery that drives effective invoice processing and prompt payment to suppliers and issue resolution on employee expenses.

- Provide end to end proactive monitoring and management of transactional pipeline to ensure workload prioritization drives better user experience and on time payment to suppliers.

- Support Squads to implement timely and disruptive improvements in existing processes delivering better value and experience.

- Inspire, coach, and partner with business partners and 3rd party vendors to deliver outcomes whilst ensuring an inclusive culture.

- Resolve complex issues that are escalated by the team and oversee and monitor their performance.

- Ensure compliance to relevant policies that may differ from country to country whenever possible, failing which may result in a negative impact.

- Manage and own the performance of overall Accounts Payable process through direct team of Invoice processing and various indirect teams.

- Own the regular governance with business stakeholders.

- The process is going through tremendous transformation and teams needs to be lifted from processing transactions to managing exceptions and driving business value.