Lead Accounts Payable Specialist

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Description

• Responsible owner of a specific business accounts payable operations on a regional and/or process level. • Act as a subject matter expert on accounts payable processes, systems, and tools. • Practice effective monitoring and lean daily management to ensure payments are made on time to suppliers with the least amount of effort. • Monitor daily operations quality and efficiency against established processes and tools for AP and cross-functional teams. • Measure and lead reporting efforts of various performance indicators. • Establish, implement, and document standardized procedures within the Accounts Payable function, including processes, procedures, controls, and systems. • Assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the current processes and systems to identify and implement process improvements. • Drive improvement initiatives by utilizing lean methodologies with internal and external stakeholders including buying teams, suppliers and BPO organizations which support the transactional processing. • Be a change manager: as a skilled influencer, communicate complex messages within the business. • Explain difficult or sensitive information; build consensus keeping the standard process in mind. • Support STAT, GAP and SOX audits as needed to ensure accuracy of the organization’s financial documents. • Protect the business against unintentional overpayment through the owning and monitoring related process controls.

Requirements

• Significant experience in Sourcing, Operations, Supply Chain, finance, or equivalent consulting experience. • For roles not in USA, this role requires significant experience comparable to a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma with relevant experience), or equivalent experience/knowledge. • For roles in USA, this role requires a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma/GED with significant experience in job family group/function), or equivalent experience/knowledge. • Strong written and verbal English knowledge is a must.