Accounts Payable Lead Job Description
Accounts Payable Lead Duties & Responsibilities
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Accounts Payable Lead Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Accounts Payable Lead
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Education for Accounts Payable Lead
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Employers hiring for the accounts payable lead job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Education, Associates, Business/Administration, Management, General Education, Technical, MBA
Skills for Accounts Payable Lead
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Accounts Payable Lead Examples
Accounts Payable Lead Job Description
- Experience with Concur and Great Plains a plus, but not required
- Prepare the bi-weekly and monthly payroll files in conjunction with HR
- Disburses petty cash by recording entry
- Manage the payables team
- Work with staff to ensure receipt of invoices, accurate entry into the AP system and timely payments
- Ensure that invoices are entered accurately and in a timely manner
- Maintain positive communication and relations with vendors
- Process incoming invoices, reconcile monthly statements, process credit card accounts
- Ad-hoc tasks and projects that arise
- Process payments including US payments (via check and electronic file delivery), US employee reimbursements, manual check requests, employee expense advances and reimbursements
- Minimum 5 years' of relevant working experience in manufacturing environment
- Experience in SAP (FI & CO Module) is an added advantage
- Possess positive working attitude, self-motivated, independent, and great sense of responsibility
- Experience with Travel and Expense management processes and systems
- Proficiency in ERP software is required
- Interpersonal savvy with ability to operate at a senior level in collaboration with diverse internal and external executives
Accounts Payable Lead Job Description
- Accounting concept understanding & experience required
- Provide leadership to accounts payable team
- Support Accounts Payable Manager
- Process accounts payable invoices and related vendor payments
- Review processes to insure proper general ledger account coding
- Assist on monthly reconciliation and closing of accounts payable sub-ledger
- Maintain vendor master files
- Respond to internal and vendor inquiries
- Review and reconcile various general ledger account balances related to accounts payable
- Prepare and process journal entries if needed
- At least 3 years in a role relevant to Accounts Payable
- Ability to create and leverage networks within the organisation
- 4+ years' experience in AP function preferably in a multinational environment
- Exposure to Payroll would be an advantage
- You are proficient with MS Office, especially Excel
- Proficient in business English and Czech
Accounts Payable Lead Job Description
- Assist with balance sheet reconciliation in conjunction with Corporate Accounting
- Perform filing of documents as required
- Other assigned duties, responsibilities and special projects
- You will coordinate a team of Customer Response Centre Representatives to assure high quality of Customer Service & query resolution
- You will be responsible to achieve green KPIs for respective markets in scope and backup for remaining entities
- You will be first escalation point for problem resolution
- You will provide Procure to Pay process expertise
- You will coordinate and maintain process documentation
- You will training and transfer of knowledge among the team – new process or projects
- You will assure the adequacy of business controls through review, analysis verification
- Proficient in business English and French, knowledge of Spanish a strong plus
- Ability to work independently and make sound decisions with limited supervision
- Knowledge of accounts payable best practices
- PC skills including Word and spreadsheet processing
- Good interpersonal skillset to motivate staff
- Proficient in business English, German nice to have
Accounts Payable Lead Job Description
- Implement best practices for reporting results to upper management
- Assist with month and year-end closing for Accounts Payable
- Supervise approximately 10 AP staff (Senior AP accountants, payment analysts and AP accountants)
- Manage the relevant Business Unit Accounts Payable processing activities
- Review and approve G/L reconciliation prepared by A/P Accountants
- Identify, drive and sustain AP process improvements and cost efficiency
- Lead implementation of technology-related process improvement opportunities
- Plan, organize, lead and control the work of the staff to ensure that objectives are achieved and services are delivered to the customers/stakeholders
- Manage the performance of staff members, including hiring, training, coaching, performance correcting (disciplinary actions), and career planning and salary recommendations
- Responsible for delivering results on Service Level Agreements and related Key Performance Indicators
- Strong organizational and analytical skills, , problem solving and decision making abilities required
- In-depth process knowledge
- Timberline/Sage preferred
- Positive attitude and ability to effectively communicate with management
- Fluency in English and Dutch – Spoken and written
- Ability to troubleshoot PeopleSoft application engines, SQR’s, and PeopleCode
Accounts Payable Lead Job Description
- Supervise the AP trade process including working closely with cash management, inventory and employee T&E transactions
- Prepare cash requirements daily for management for OU601 and OU604
- Prepare and process credit card transactions maintain tracker of rebates from credit card transactions
- Create and maintain trackers for recurring, digital and rent expenses maintain marketing purchase order log monthly
- Communicate with internal and external customers regarding payment information
- Support implementation of new projects which will support continuous improvement
- Monitors and oversees overall activities of the vendor relations and vendor analyst functions disbursement analyst and ap analyst as need
- Monitor, evaluate and report metrics to management
- Provide end to end support to employees, vendors (customers) by getting a 360* view of the P2P cycle and process
- Audit and process payments in assigned focus at a high volume & accuracy level, and review payments processed by team members
- Proficient in business English and French
- AP experience
- 3+ years’ experience in accounts payable strongly preferred
- 3 plus years of full cycle AP invoice processing experience, required
- 2 plus years of leadership or supervisory experience, required
- Purchase order experience, required