Head of Accounts Payable

4 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Recardo Group Full time

**Job Title**: Senior Accounts Payable Manager

**Salary**: £55,000 - £65,000 per annum + 10% bonus + benefits

**Location**: Hybrid, 3 days from home, 2 days in Solihull

Recardo Group are exclusively recruiting for a newly created role at our Global client’s head office in Solihull. The purpose of the role is to head up and lead the Accounts Payable function across the EMEA region. To manage and oversee the workload of the department to ensure that the strategic objectives of the company are met.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Manage and oversee the workload of the Accounts Payable function to ensure the strategic objectives of the company are met.
- Manage and lead the EMEA AP Teams across multiple site locations, undertaking 121’s, objective setting, team engagement and performance management. Also manage utilisation of SSC resources. Current size and scale of the AP function is approximately £800m with a team of 19.
- Following major acquisitions, management of integrating, galvanising, and harmonising the current 3 separate teams into a single cohesive and effective team, delivering excellent service to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Have the capability, drawing on previous experience, to build and shape the team, direct, and lead the planning and execution of the P2P function.
- Build and maintain and manage policies for communication with vendors aligned to internal IT processes.
- Manage weekly AP payment and expense runs across the region ensuring that the accounts payable and the companies’ financial obligations are met efficiently.
- Manage the team regarding ongoing task and deliverables from the country-by-country LER projects.
- Manage and maintain AP processes to ensure compliance with internal processes and external requirements including VAT compliance, controls on vendor master data changes, payments templates etc.
- Manage and reporting of debit balances across the ledgers including recoverability of unpaid VSF balances.
- Manage and maintain policies and procedures that support key supplier statement reconciliations.
- Manage external/internal audit requests
- Experienced leadership skills in a similar role.
- Previous experience of reorganisations and system migrations.
- Appreciation of the fundamentals of accounting and the importance of strong financial controls.
- Confident at all levels, articulate and adept in obtaining and challenging information.
- Robust approach to relationships and interactions with colleagues and vendors.
- Organised with attention to detail and a team player.
- Proven focus on improving effectiveness and effectiveness and efficiency utilising strong analytical and time management.
- Recognition of pressure and able to respond positively.
- Proven track record of meeting deadlines and ability to priories workloads.
- Ability to multitask.
- Ability to bring together and harmonise multiple teams across multiple locations.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £55,000.00-£65,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Birmingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- purchase ledger: 1 year (preferred)
- Accounts payable: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Birmingham



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