Manager - Accounts Payable - Financial Services

Manager - Accounts Payable

Roles & Responsibilities:

Operational Excellence:

Accounts Payable:

1. Manage performance of the Accounts Payable team and coach/mentor the team members

2. Drive process improvement initiatives and implementation along with collaborating with the global teams

3. Maintain the confidentiality of all company, client and vendor information along with the ability to uphold internal controls and records for auditing purposes

4. Oversee and assist with the daily Accounts Payable operations and manage centralized receipt of invoices through the Accounts Payable mailbox for processing through Concur invoice platform across 15 countries

5. Monitor and route invoices to the correct owners for coding and approval in Concur

Travel & Expense:

1. Review and approve expense reports for the regional team; liaise with support teams for additional information and documents, as needed

2. Assist with the creation and preparation of expense reports for Travel Business Accounts

3. Oversee the ServiceNow ticketing queue with queries submitted by employees related to T&E and Invoice

4. Create T&E Journal Entries for upload into the ERP system

Stakeholder Management:

1. Interact with the team on a frequent basis to understand their requirements, reporting needs and possible bottlenecks

2. Ensure the team responds to the Accounts Payable inquiries in a timely manner to support positive vendor relations and communication

3. Identify and communicate invoice discrepancies to vendors/suppliers and confirm banking details are correctly reflected in vendor management database

4. Direct the invoice coding for multiple teams internally

Reporting & Governance:

1. Supervise the execution of bi-weekly payment runs and ensure payments successfully credit to vendors' accounts

2. Oversee the extraction of reports from Concur Intelligence weekly to highlight invoices pending in the workflow

3. Generate detailed reports in Concur listing invoice statuses and connect with internal teams to ensure coding and submission is performed prior to month or year-end close

Education & Experience:

- Bachelor's/PG Degree or equivalent work experience required

- 6-10 years of experience in similar roles and understands business processes for Accounts Payable

- Experience with team management roles is preferred

- Experience in a multinational Financial Services organization and/or Private Equity preferred

Technical Know-how/Tools used:

- Ability to manage Concur SAE JE and other financial data

- Ability to code financial and legal invoices

- Ability to perform reconciliation between treasury and JPM statement for AP accounts

- Ability to resolve invoice and expense related queries

- Ability to create vendors in SAP S4Hana as per requests

- Ability to extract P&L reports from SAP

Systems / Tools / Application knowledge:

- Strong experience with ERP accounting system (SAP HANA) and SAP Concur preferred

- Experience with automated vendor invoice management system(s)

- Experience with Concur Expense/Invoice preferred

- Proficiency in data analytics, report development

- Advanced proficiency in Excel

Behavioral Skills

- Displays high intellectual curiosity and innovative mindset

- Demonstrates highest levels of integrity

- Focuses on delivery excellence and accountability

- Fosters a culture of teamwork and collaboration in teams

- Builds strong relationships with local and global colleagues

- Displays behaviors of self-reliance

- Values and promotes diversity in the team

- Demonstrates a relationship-driven mindset