Job Description

We have an excellent opportunity available for an Accounts Payable Manager to join our high-performing finance team on a 6 month fixed-term contract. This role will be home-based, and when restrictions allow from our Glasgow office and comes during a time of transformation and change within for the organization.

Reporting to the Head of Financial Operations, the role holder will be responsible for managing a team of finance professionals through a business transition to deliver global financial transaction processing across the organization. Core finance transactions include Accounts Payable and Expenses Management for all ACCA entities

Working closely with colleagues across Finance, this role is instrumental in the sustainability, effectiveness and service provided by global Finance Operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• To manage global financial transaction processing in Financial Operations including the development and monitoring of policies, processes and procedures
• Develop a high performing and engaged team of finance professionals. Provide direction, development and line management to your people, ensuring KPIs are met. Achieved through effective conduct, performance and absence management
• Listen to voice of the customer and employees to deliver process improvements which result in efficiency, remove waste and increase customer and employee satisfaction through continuous improvement
• Completion of testing and inspection of critical to quality measures in all areas of teams output
• Create and deliver training to employees and stakeholders
• Cultivate a team culture focusing on the customer, service delivery and performance standards
• Deliver a successful transition to digital solutions and provide SME support to projects
• Collaborate with wider Finance colleagues, our internal/external customers to successfully deliver our goals and objectives
• Maintain, comply and promote across the organization a set of global financial policies and processes ensuring in-country legal, regulatory and financial requirements are being met
• Support audits across the directorate and deliver on actions using established audit control systems.

You’ll enjoy:

• Core benefits including private healthcare, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme and Nudge (a financial wellbeing platform)
• Customizable benefits including health assessments, healthcare cash plan, dental cover, gadget insurance and much, much more
• Flexible working arrangements to support work/life balance (our UK offices are currently closed until 2021 so we're all working 100% remotely).

Contract length: 6 months

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19

COVID-19 precaution(s):

• Remote interview process
• Virtual meetings

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Working knowledge of best practice financial operating procedures. People management policy and procedures. Understanding of what a good customer experience looks like. Able to apply effective people management to foster a strong culture and engagement. Customer focus mindset to provide and deliver continuous improvement solutions. Interpersonal skills required to work effectively with colleagues across cultures and disciplines. Training , coaching presentational and influencing skills. A flexible approach to making decisions in an environment with shifting priorities and unpredictable demands. Effective data analysis, data manipulation, planning and time management. Minimum of 5 years of experience working within a finance transactional and customer experience environment. Experience of managing teams in a complex and changing operating environment. Experience: purchase ledger: 1 year (Preferred). Accounts Payable: 1 year (Preferred).