Accounts Payable Manager

Act as a technical and operational Subject Matter Expert (SME) for P2P policy, processes, and systems. • Design and deliver effective, creative process strategies and best practices to deliver high quality Finance operations. • Manages and supervises the accounts payable department and staff in the organisation. • Responsible for generating, maintaining and managing strong relationships with the customer and fulfilling customer Finance ops needs within stipulated time. Leads continuous improvement of services in quality and effectiveness, isolates problem trends and ensures troubleshooting efforts are completed for recurring problems until permanent solutions are found. • Identifying gaps and suggesting suitable areas for improvement. • Responsible for team’s performance and growth. • Keeping record of all transactions within the company and external vendors and contractors. • Responsible for ensuring customer and management reporting & proactive projection of challenges and probable solutions. • Organize knowledge sharing sessions both within the team and cross teams. • Assist in quarterly reviews and periodic audits and prepare audit schedules as necessary. • Reviews GL distribution of AP transactions to ensure accounting and reporting accuracy. • Develop, mentor, and coach junior team members • Ensuring quality and timeliness of work. • Focused, diligent, high on quality and timeliness are the basic requirements for the role. Requirements · Demonstrates expert knowledge of processes and procedures relevant to the function and proactively identifies improvement opportunities. Ensures knowledge and best practice sharing, captures and documents team’s collective knowledge. Ensures cross-training and knowledge sharing within the Team. Focuses on maintaining a good team spirit, through proactive communication, coaching and counselling, in line with Centre policies and procedures. · Develops talent pool to be leveraged in future engagements.