Invoice Management Team Lead - Group Accounts Payable Services - 12-month Fixed-Term Contract

Job Purpose

At Emirates Group, we connect the world through our global hub in Dubai, ensuring our customers always ‘Fly Better.’ As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we’re driven by innovation and excellence. Join us as an Invoice Management Team Lead and play a key role in driving financial strategy and decision-making for a global business. Experience a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your financial expertise will be central to shaping the future of aviation while making a meaningful impact on a global stage.

Our finance department at Emirates Group is responsible for acquiring and managing financial resources to generate profit. The team is pivotal in providing relevant financial information contributing to the productivity of our business functions, planning, and decision-making activities.

As an Invoice Management Team Lead within Group Accounts Payable Services, your role is to Drive and control processes to manage Group Accounts Payable Services, analyse risks and internal controls within GAPs, identify solutions and mitigate risk, accuracy and integrity in financial accounting through GL reviews/reconciliations. Complying with Group Policies and Procedures, focusing on service delivery to internal and external customers, managing and enhancing key processes as required to enhance efficiency and drive optimization of unit costs.

In This Role, You Will

• Ensure effective planning, monitoring, and controlling of day-to-day activities of the team are carried out in a timely manner with accuracy thereby eliminating the risk of duplicate payments and ensuring timely payments. Ensuring support to all stations across the network for timely and accurate Invoice processing.
• Identify and suggest areas of process and system improvements particularly in those areas which do not have adequate process controls & automation in order to avoid errors and/or excess/duplicate billings. Implement checks & controls to ensure the validity of expenditure and accuracy of accruals.
• Support the Accounts Payable management team in key Strategic and Operational initiatives and projects to standardise procedures and bring about process efficiencies. Identify and analyse potential area of risk in the different business units and effectively collaborate with them in the implementation of risk mitigation measures.
• Identify, build and maintain excellent relationship with both internal and external stakeholders to minimize customer complaints and provide excellent services to suppliers in terms of accurate and timely processing of invoices. Monitor and ensure regular reconciliations of supplier statements and closure of disputes in a timely manner to avoid delayed payments.
• Manage the analysis and reconciliation of Accounts Payable- GL nominals, review the accounting books of centralized stations/LOBs on a periodic basis and resolve issues or discrepancies in a timely manner by liaising with the relevant stakeholders. Review the accuracy and completeness of monthly as well as quarterly pre and post `hard closing’ Reviews
• Exhibit excellent collaborative leadership skills to manage, motivate and sustain the morale of the team members into a cohesive working unit by maximizing team accuracy and productivity. Coordinate and conduct training and imparting on-the-job guidance to team members on various Accounts Payable processes and policies to improve their knowledge and enhance the productivity of the teams and ensure succession plans are in place. Supporting management in ensuring the KPI’s of the respective teams are met in the most cost effective way.
  
  

Qualification

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Finance or Accounting
• Bachelor Degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in handling large volume transactions through an automated environment or in Accounts Payables Function.
  
  

You’ll Have An Edge If You Have

• Advanced level of analytical thinking and presentation skills
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to identify process improvements and lead process changes.
• Ability to work in a high stress, fast-paced environment managing multiple tasks, projects and personnel simultaneously
  
  

At Emirates Group, we’re committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. So if you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

Salary & benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what it’s like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section.

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