Manage a team of accounting executives and oversee the Accounts Payable (AP) function in Group Shared Services, ensuring accurate and timely processing of invoices, payments, staff claims, refunds, and vendor reconciliations.
Manage and ensure accurate, timely and smooth completion of month-end close activities, including AP sub-ledger closing, accruals, reconciliations, co-ordinating with Group Finance on monthly and year-end closing requirements
Ensure AP records, processes and procedures are in compliance with local statutory and filing requirements.
Monitor key AP KPIs (e.g., DPO, on-time payments, GR/IR aging, PO vs non-PO adoption, OCR accuracy) and prepare monthly management reports.
Work closely with internal and external counterparts to ensure open issues, un-reconciled items and disputes are resolved in a timely manner.
Attend to internal and external auditors and respond to audit querie...