Senior Manager - Accounts Payable

Key Responsibilities and Requirements:-

Organizational And Management Responsibilities

• Report directly to the Head of Transactional Accounting, taking full ownership of P2P tasks.
• Oversee career growth planning and development activities for department members.
• Provide timely and specific coaching to staff to support their growth and development.
• Foster an environment where team members are empowered to take ownership and make decisions.
• Make staffing recommendations, including hiring and terminations, and conduct annual performance evaluations for team members
  
  

Technical And Analytical Responsibilities

• Manage the accurate and timely processing of supplier registrations, contracts, purchase requisitions, vendor invoices, recurring payments, reimbursements, payments (checks, ACH, wires), and expense reports.
• Lead team management with responsibility and accountability for all defined SLA/KPI.
• Implement and monitor internal audit controls to ensure zero deficiencies.
• Create and interpret dashboards to identify, monitor, and resolve process inefficiencies.
• Develop reporting and analysis as required by the leadership team.
• Manage projects and drive process change; research and resolve compliance issues.
• Oversee month-end, quarterly-end, and year-end close processes.
• Serve as a resource to staff, department managers, and others for interpreting policies, procedures, and regulations relating to A/P.
• Ensure all customer service requests are resolved within the SLA agreement.
• Collaborate with leadership and others across brands to facilitate best practices for invoice approval and escalation.
• Identify inefficiencies in the Purchase to Pay process and lead initiatives to streamline workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and improve overall process efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement process improvements and drive operational excellence.
• Lead the analysis of data to identify trends, insights, and opportunities for optimization.
• Develop and implement data-driven strategies to improve purchasing efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance supplier performance
  
  

What You Bring

• 7-10 years of diverse experience leading Accounts Payable and Purchasing Teams.
• 3-5 years of experience leading and developing departmental staff.
• Ability to manage a large team (25+ FTE).
• Strong interpersonal skills, including persuasive written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to effectively interact and communicate with all levels of staff and management to build partnerships with various departments.
• Experience interacting with internal and external auditors to ensure successful audits.
• Proficiency in performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel, including V-lookups, pivot tables, and other related software applications.
• Experience working with Ariba, SAP, Concur, etc.
• Ability to effectively communicate and influence key stakeholders to support proposed strategies, process improvements, and operational decisions.
• Critical thinker with resourcefulness and ability to devise, create, and communicate timely solutions to medium-to-complex problems.
• Passion for providing excellent customer service.
• Strong multi-tasker with the ability to prioritize and adapt quickly in an ever-changing environment.
• Ability to think creatively, work independently, and as part of a team to solve problems given limited resources and time, with a strong work ethic and adherence to deadlines.
• Effectively manage numerous projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
  
  

Profile Key Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Commerce Graduate/MBA Inter - CA/CMA
  
  

System Skills

• Intermediate or Advanced Excel skills.
• Previous experience using a general ledger system
  
  

Initiative

• Ability to undertake initiative and deliver quality results often with competing deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously while displaying strong teamwork ethics and attributes
  
  

Team Management

• Ability to support and mentor team members in their tasks.
  
  

Other Skills

• Strong listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to understand and assess accounting process issues.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and meet set deadlines.
• Ability to review and understand outcomes of work performed
  
  

Customer Service

• Provide exceptional customer service to internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong ability to build effective internal relationships at all levels of the organization
  
  

Language Skills

• English proficiency.
• A second language would be an advantage (French/German/Italian/Spanish)
  
  

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

Join us. Lets care for tomorrow.

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