Group Accounts Payable Manager

ROLE PURPOSE:

To manage the payment processes for the Group, to ensure the efficiency of the payments function with prompt, accurate and timely payments of suppliers and other payments and to reconcile on time for management accounts.

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Run and monitor payments process – from enquiry for purchase orders through processing invoices and expenses to reconciliation and setting up payments. 
• Ensure effective controls developed and maintained around accounts payable process
• Manage and monitor invoices in the system and resolve queries with suppliers 
• Prepare payments communicating with appropriate departments
• Maintain strong expenditure controls and records checking and verifying expense claims and purchase orders up to agreed limits 
• Process journals and maintain supporting documentations as an audit trail 
• Provide excellent services to internal and external stakeholders 

Essential Skills and Experience

•           Dynamic, enthusiastic, self-motivated individual with excellent organizational skills

•           At least 5-year working experience in accounting

•           A high degree of computer literacy (particularly Microsoft Office applications)

•           Finance and accounting related degree must 

•           Accounting professional qualifications beneficial but not requirement.