Accounts Payable Manager

My client, a leading travelcompany based in Central London are recruiting an Accounts Payable Manager to join their well established company.

Your main responsibilities will be;

• All aspects of managing, motivating, training and developing a team of 5 Accounts Payable Assistants.
• Issue all payments in an accurate and timely manner, adhering to all controls set around payments.
• Escalation point for when team members have not been able to resolve specific issues or queries themselves with suppliers, freelancers or employees. This will involve internal and external liaison as appropriate.
• Ensure that the relevant Finance Business Partners and their teams are aware of any relevant Accounts Payable issues and work together to resolve the issues.
• Provide regular reports and analysis of team metrics/KPI’s
• Use this data to proactively identify and troubleshoot general problems with regards to processes, accuracy, timeliness and controls with a view to finding both immediate and long term solutions.
• Maintenance of all systems used for processing invoices and employee expense claims (e.g. user account set up, setting up new suppliers, mapping users to approvers, departmental coding changes).
• Deliver continuous improvement in Accounts Payable – Make recommendations and implement agreed changes.
• Reviewing & updating process documentation on a quarterly basis
• Initial review & approval of new report & report change requests identified within the team.
• Any other duties as appropriate.

The ideal candidate would have come from the travel industry.