Global Accounts Payable Manager

Zepz; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global remittance company is seeking a motivated Global Accounts Payable Manager to oversee day-to-day operations and lead a dynamic team. You will ensure compliance with company policies while enhancing supplier relationships. The ideal candidate has extensive accounts payable experience and excellent communication skills, with a focus on continuous improvement. This is a remote-first role based in London.

Benefits

Unlimited Annual Leave

Private Medical Cover

Retirement pension schemes

Life Assurance

Competitive Parental Leave

Remote flexibility and employee discounts

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Accounts Payable.
• Management skills across different locations.
• Strong knowledge of financing principles.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day accounts payable operations.
• Lead a global Accounts Payable team.
• Ensure compliance with company policies.
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers.
• Drive process improvements in accounts payable.

Skills

Accounts Payable experience

Excellent people management skills

Attention to detail

Strong knowledge of finance and accounting functions

Experience with foreign currency transactions

Continuous improvement mindset

Excellent communication skills

Technology / IT skills in accounting ERPs

Education

Relevant qualification in finance or accounting

Tools

Oracle NetSuite ERP

Job description

About Zepz

Zepz is the group powering two leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. Since 2010, we have been disrupting an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players with our relentless focus on reducing the cost of remittances and increasing safety and convenience for our users. Every day, our people work to unlock the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology - driven by our vision of a world that celebrates migrants’ impact on prosperity, at home and abroad.

In 2023, our brands helped cross-border communities send over $15bn from 50 countries to recipients in 130 countries. We operate over 2800 money transfer corridors worldwide and employ over 1,000 people globally. Zepz is a remote-first employer, with team members located across six continents. Come join us!

Our Commitments

• We act like owners — We are relentlessly delivering for our users and spending money thoughtfully.
• We embrace embarrassing honesty — We function best when we're open and honest with one another — especially about our challenges and doubts.
• We have a bias to action — We get to first outcomes quickly, iterate and learn.
• We strive to be better — We may make mistakes, but always learn from them.
• We are inclusive — to better reflect and serve our users.

Global Accounts Payable Manager

About the role

This finance position is one of the key roles within the Financial Control Team managing not only accounts payable day-to-day operations but also working closely with budget owners and other stakeholders on making the buying and vendor payments process as smooth as possible. Zepz are looking for a highly driven Global Accounts Payable Manager reporting into the Procurement and Financial Operations Director.

Key Responsibilities

• Accounts Payable incl. invoice to pay, travel & expenses, continuous improvement (AP KPIs, end users training & compliance) plus driving controls and balance sheet hygiene for all AP related accounting events.
• Lead a global AP Team, helping the teams to grow and maintain the proper balance between acting as an AP controls & processes safe guardian and Business Partner focusing on AP related C‑SAT. Performance assessment, coaching, training and development of the team members to improve individual and overall team productivity.
• Ensuring that systems, policies, and procedures adhere to company policies while functioning with accuracy and timeliness. Identifying continuous process improvement opportunities to ensure that systems and processes are best-in-class and operate effectively. Managing key projects such as business integrations, system implementations, audit preparations.
• Building strong positive relationships with key internal business partners and suppliers. Close collaboration with Procurement Team in line with the common Procure‑to‑Pay goals.
• Working closely with Procurement and Financial Controllers and Finance Business Partners ensuring that AP Framework is in full synergy with other key WorldRemit processes and controls.
• Leading procurement negotiations for new deals and renewal of existing contracts. Most purchases are related to external tools and services (mostly from Finance, Technology and Operations area).
• Potential progression opportunities, both within the team and wider Finance function.
• Through personal commitment and drive, embody Zepz’s values at all times.

What you will own

• Oversee operations of the global AP Team.
• Set up process and controls driven business objectives for the team and provide support needed to achieve them (establish right processes or controls for the team, finding ways to keep the team acting as a business partner).
• Work closely (upstream with Procurement, downstream with invoice to pay) with various key stakeholders, like Financial Controllers, Treasury, Finance Business Partners, budget owners to drive the P2P agenda forward, as well as directly addressing stakeholder needs.
• Drive continuous improvement agenda & mindset, improving both quality and perception of the function within internal and external stakeholders.

What you bring to the table

• Extensive Accounts Payable experience; procurement experience is an additional plus.
• Excellent people management skills across different locations.
• Attention to detail, willing to maintain and improve controls within the process.
• Strong knowledge of finance and accounting functions, ideally with a relevant qualification.
• Experience working in an international business, working with foreign currency transactions.
• Continuous improvement mindset, seeking opportunities within the process and its surrounding touchpoints.
• Excellent communication skills, able to interact well with senior management and establish and maintain good working relationships across functions and regions.
• Technology / IT skills: strong all‑round knowledge of accounting ERPs and MS/GoogleSuite tools. Oracle NetSuite ERP products an additional plus.

Benefits

We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. If you're not in one of those regions, don’t worry — the Talent team can let you know what is available for you specifically:

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Most Zepz team members are eligible for unlimited annual leave. Colleagues in customer‑facing roles receive a competitive holiday allowance and four recharge days a year.
• Private Medical Cover: You can opt‑in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme.
• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future.
• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones.
• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes.
• Remote‑first flexibility across locations; workspace availability in certain locations; secondary perks such as cycle‑to‑work scheme and employee discounts based on location.

Why choose Zepz?

Our team of over 1,000 employees is fully distributed across the world. We work from coffee shops, homes, and co‑working spaces — one of the larger fully distributed growth‑stage startups with optional workspace in talent cluster locations.

We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, serial entrepreneurs, and more. Our collective speaks over twenty languages including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish.

At Zepz, embodying our commitments brings us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose to continue providing the best service to our users.

Ready to Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive.

So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, if you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.