AP Manager

I'm currently recruiting for an AP Manager for a large Shared Service Centre based in South Birmingham.

This company require an experienced AP Manager to assist them in the continued reengineering of their processes, the improvement of their AP controls, SOP's and team management.

You will lead and motivate a team of 12 across the AP function, responsible for invoice processing, employee expenses, p-card transactions, supplier statement reconciliations and other activities.

Reporting and driving out efficiencies are fundamental to the success of this role, as is liaison with internal and external customers.

Key duties within your team will include:

• Managing and administering full end-to-end invoice processing, which is likely to involve invoice scanning, invoice matching to purchase orders and the chasing down of outstanding invoices and/or purchase orders
• Ensuring all incoming invoices, statements and collection letters are administered appropriately
• Reconcile specific vendor statements on a regular basis
• All payments are optimised and made in line with vendor payment terms, ensuring appropriate invoice approvals are place at all times
• Control of all payment runs and optimise the prioritisation of payments to ensure the maximum benefit around cashflow management, with regular accurate and updated forecasts of upcoming cash requirements
• Clear SLA's are developed and shared with all stakeholders, to acknowledge the role they play and the timeliness of responses required
• Ensure team work to defined process including working with certain escalation timelines
• Work with procurement as appropriate but particularly around master data management & PO compliance
• Work closely across the organisation to ensure that the business has full visibility of areas of concern and business non-compliance, through regular KPI reporting and to work with the business to formulate strategy and approach to resolve process issues
• Maintain a strong control framework, in line with agreed SOX controls and best practice

In order to be successful in this role you will have had substantial experience in AP within a large and complex Shared Services environment. You will be able to drive and motivate large teams as well as drive process standardization to ensure side-systems are eradicated. You will also have used SAP.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an ever-growing business within a forward thinking and supportive team. Although this role is initially a 6 month FTC, it will more than likely go permanent. So if team management and AP process improvement are two of your key strengths then please apply ASAP!

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