AP Senior Team Manager
THE POSITION
Looking for a role where you are leading the GBS Center AP function and where the teams are responsible for end-to-end accounts payable activities within their assigned business unit(s) with differing business priorities and cultures. If you are keen to help us expanding our AP services to a group of new stakeholders in EMEA region and enhancing our ways of working, then this is your place to be.
Tasks & responsibilities
- As the AP Senior Team Manager, you are responsible for overall lead of the workstream for European markets with up to 10 direct reports, including Team Managers, according to the company´s Our Behaviors, our Leadership principles, and the Global Recruiting Delivery Model, following internal and external compliance regulations
- You oversee and monitor the teams and overall AP processes execution for all service-receiving countries, using our weGrow approach
- You integrate countries and services into GBSC and ensure/manage smooth transition, service delivery and harmonization of processes over all-sub-teams
- You prepare the team and end-user for the Go-live of new countries and potential new processes together with its stabilization after deployment and support change management after Go-live
- You identify and validate local business needs and foster identification of innovation
- You will work on projects and in the environment where we use targets to measure the service quality, ensuring process adherence and continuous improvement
About our future employee
You should have verified knowledge in end-to-end AP processing, speak English min. on C1 level and have min. 8 years of professional experience in Source to Pay Shared Services environment. A minimum of 5 years Leadership experience is a must.
Additionally, we are looking for:
- Completed higher education preferably in Finance/Business Administration field or related areas.
- Excellent understanding/knowledge of end-to-end S2P processes with focus on AP.
- Distinct empathy, team spirit, accountability, intrapreneurship, and a high service orientation with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Proven problem-solving ability to manage complex and/or sensitive situations to successfully recommend, influence and implement solutions. which may require engaging different levels within the organization.
- Excellent communication skills.
- High customer service orientation and open mindset.
- Excellent analytical skills, strategic mind-set and capable of prioritizing.
- Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
- Preferably working experience with SAP, Invoice Track, ServiceNow, MS Office (advanced in Excel).