Senior Accounts Payable Manager (12-Month Fixed-Term Contract)

myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the LGBTQ+ business community seeks a Senior Accounts Payable Manager to oversee its AP team. This role, a 12-month fixed-term contract, focuses on enhancing spend visibility and supporting improvements in the Procure-to-Pay process, requiring expertise in AP leadership and process optimization.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Accounts Payable, including 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Expertise in managing accrual processes in a multi-entity environment.
• Skilled in using AP/ERP systems and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the AP team and drive process improvement.
• Overhaul the AP process for consistency and visibility.
• Collaborate across functions to enhance the Procure-to-Pay process.

Skills

Accounts Payable Leadership

Data Analysis

Process Improvement

ERP Systems Proficiency

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

Workday Financials

Job description

Senior Accounts Payable Manager (12-Month Fixed-Term Contract)

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This job is with Skyscanner, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

We're looking for a Senior Accounts Payable Manager to lead our AP team through a period of evolution. This 12-month fixed-term contract focuses on driving transformation across our global operation including spending, expenses, month-end accruals, operational controls, and how AP engages with our global business and suppliers.

Our data powers our decision-making. As AP team lead you will own building that gold-standard data to power our spend visibility, empowering critical insights and analysis by teams across Skyscanner.

You'll play a key role in shaping and supporting improvements across the broader Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process, working alongside Procurement and Finance stakeholders to embed best practice.

You're an experienced AP leader who knows how to deliver structure, scalability, and insight with a continuous improvement mindset - this role puts you at the heart of building a mature, forward-looking function for a fast-paced, high-growth multinational group. You will have the support of an insights-driven team structure ready to scale with the business.

What You'll Be Doing

Build the data to power spend visibility, analytics and insight

• Leverage our Workday Financials ERP and additional tooling to create a rich stream of accurate and informative spend data, capable of supporting detailed analytics, budget allocation and comparability.
• Ensure the business is empowered to use AP data to inform decisions - surfacing insights on trends, supplier performance, spend trends, aging, and processing bottlenecks.
• Bring data to the table - drive conversations using evidence, not assumptions and ensure the business does the same through delivering spend visibility and transparency for budget holders and business units.
  
  

Process Transformation

• Own and overhaul the AP process, driving consistency, visibility, and timeliness. Creating an operation which leverages best-in-class practices, capable of delivering world-class KPIs.
• Design and implement scalable templates and processes that embed accuracy and accountability into AP-related management information and financial reporting.
• Partner with FP&A and Financial Reporting to ensure accruals are predictable, explainable, and embedded in planning cycles.
  
  

Support P2P Process Improvements

• Work cross-functionally to strengthen the Procure-to-Pay process, focusing on clarity of roles, streamlined approvals, and operational compliance.
• Collaborate with Procurement, and Financial Systems to ensure AP processes align with wider P2P objectives.
• Contribute to systems and automation enhancements that improve end-to-end P2P efficiency (e.g. invoice matching, PO compliance).
  
  

Lead the AP Team

• Lead and support the team - setting clear goals, creating accountability, and developing people through change.
• Driving best practices across the team and business on automation, coding, scripting, tagging, standardisation and interpretation.
• Act as the AP lead across the business - making employee and supplier processes easy to follow and helping others engage with them effectively.
  
  

Strengthen Controls and Governance

• Maintain strong financial controls, particularly around supplier setup, payments, and month-end cut-offs. Create clarity and accuracy on accruals.
• Ensure audit readiness with clean reconciliations, documented processes, and a "no surprises" mindset.
  
  

What You Bring

• Significant experience in Accounts Payable, including 3+years/equivalent in an AP leadership role preferably in a large, global organisation or a shared services environment.
• Deep experience managing or improving accrual processes - ideally in a fast-paced, multi-entity environment.
• Exposure to P2P process design or optimisation, and the ability to work cross-functionally on end-to-end improvements.
• Skilled in using AP/ERP systems (Workday) and reporting tools.
• A collaborative, proactive, and solutions-focused approach - able to influence across finance and the wider business.
• You thrive in fast-moving environments, can bring structure to ambiguity, and know how to lead through change.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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