Accounts Payable Manager

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
Purpose of the job:
Provide financial support to IBM’s Accounts Payable organization and lead the operational Team.
Key duties and responsibilities:

• Lead the E2E Accounts Payable Operational regional teams
• Perform execution of global Accounts Payable strategy ( e.g. invoice scanning, data registration, error resolution, internal controlling tasks, payments)
• Ensure keeping the AP measurement targets, especially the Paid on Time metric
• Ensure providing quantitative and qualitative work
• Learn, understand and keep the procedures, documentations, instructions and auditing / business controls guidelines
• Keep internal target dates
• Develop own and Team skills plus knowledge aligned to business strategy
• Sharing knowledge with team members& peers
• Participating / facilitating in diverse Agile ceremonies to discuss status of project activities, actions, tasks, blockers; providing input about completed and closed items
• Using team collaboration tools
• Work in an Agile environment
• Recommending process changes and contribute to the whole lifecycle of the projects
• Driving, owning and supporting process enhancement / modification initiatives
• Maintaining good working relationships with all parties
• Practise the culture of helpfulness
• Provide assistance to management in ad hoc projects.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Skills and qualities required:

• English language proficiency
• People leadership experience 3-5 years
• Good communication skills
• Confident Microsoft Office skills
• Analytical skills (Data Analytics, EPM usage)
• Foster and apply Teamwork
• Problem solving and visualisation of problems and solutions
• Project management skills
• Ability to adapt and manage change effectively
• Ability to communicate, organise and work under own initiative
• Good time management with ability to prioritise effectively.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Finance and Accounting knowledge and experience
• P2P knowledge and experience - 3-5 years
• Ariba, SAP, VIM Opentext workflow knowledge and experience