ACCOUNTS PAYABLE TEAM LEAD

Do you love managing account payable through strong and effective process controls? Are you motivated to process financial documents in a timely and accurate manner? Are you passionate about ensuring compliance with corporate policies and procedures and other appropriate laws, regulations, and directives when executing financial responsibilities?

The Accounts Payable Team Lead is responsible for leading the day‑to‑day AP operations, ensuring timely and accurate processing of invoices and payments, compliance with company policies, and continuous improvement of AP processes. This role acts as the key point of contact between the AP team, internal stakeholders, and external vendors, while also supporting month‑end close and audit activities.

What will you deliver?

1. Operational Leadership

   • Lead, coach, and develop the Accounts Payable team and allocate work, monitor workload, and ensure timely invoice processing and payment runs
   • Act as escalation point for complex AP issues, vendor disputes, and internal queries
   • Prepare cash outflow analysis to ensure smooth operations
   • Ensure compliance to internal controls, approval matrices and accounting policies.
   • Identify control gaps, drive remediation action and support audit requirement by responding to audit queries
   • Manage current and forecast cash inflows and outflows to fund operations. Use hedging and netting strategies to reduce risk related to change in asset values, interest rates and foreign currency holdings. Determine when additional cash is needed.

2. Accounts Payable Processing

   • Oversee end‑to‑end AP processes including invoice receipt, validation, posting, and payment
   • Ensure accurate processing of Advance payment, PO and non‑PO invoices in accordance with company policies.
   • Review and approve invoices, payment proposals, and manual journal entries within approval limits

3. End of Month Reporting

   • Coordinate AP month‑end close activities, including accruals, reconciliations, and cut‑off procedures
   • Review and prepare AP balance sheet reconciliations and ageing reports
   • Provide timely AP reporting and insights to Finance Managers and stakeholders

4. Process improvement

   • Drive continuous process improvements, standardization, and efficiency initiatives with cross collaboration across department to drive improvements.
   • Support system enhancements, automation, and AP‑related projects
   • Document AP procedures and ensure knowledge sharing within the team

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related discipline
• Minimum 3 years account payables experience  with at least  2-3 years senior or lead role
• Technical skills of Accounts Payable integrated systems and processes
• Experience working with multiple currencies
• People management experience
• Strong analytical, project management, process improvement skills, and proficiency in spreadsheet.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and apply problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills; work well both independently and in a team environment
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and work effectively under deadlines
• Hands on and excellent attention to details
• Good working attitude