Manager Accounts Payable

Rituals Cosmetics Enterprise B.V.; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rituals Cosmetics Enterprise B.V. is seeking a Manager Accounts Payable to lead a cross-regional AP team within the Finance Operations function.

Reporting to the Head of Finance Operations, you will blend hands-on leadership with a focus on people development, process improvement, and strong financial controls. You will own the end-to-end AP lifecycle, including invoice processing, payment runs, reconciliations, and vendor master data, across multiple entities, while driving automation and

Qualifications

• Experience leading an AP team.
• End-to-end AP process knowledge across multiple entities.
• Strong analytical skills and data-backed decision making.
• Experience with automation and reporting in finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the Accounts Payable team across a cross-regional scope.
• Manage end-to-end invoice lifecycle across multiple entities, including approvals, matching, and month-end activities.
• Strengthen financial controls and lead improvement initiatives to reduce manual work.
• Act as escalation point for vendors and internal stakeholders with clear data-backed recommendations.
• Oversee AP systems and tooling, define requirements, and champion automation and reporting solutions.

Skills

Team leadership

People development

Process improvement

Financial controls

Stakeholder management

Job description

As Manager Accounts Payable, you will take ownership of Accounts Payable across a cross-regional scope within our international Finance Operations team. Leading a team of approximately eight colleagues and reporting to the Head of Finance Operations, you will combine hands‑on operational leadership with a clear focus on people's development, process improvement, and strong financial controls. You will work closely with a fellow AP Manager, sharing standards, ways of working and escalation support while independently leading your own area. From the invoice lifecycle and payment runs to reconciliations, vendor master data and month‑end activities, you will ensure that processes run accurately and effectively across multiple entities. You will also play an important role in our journey towards a more standardised, automated and analytical AP function. By reducing manual work, strengthening controls and helping the team confidently adopt modern finance systems, automation and AI-supported tools, you will contribute directly to a scalable and future‑focused Finance Operations organisation.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, coach and develop the Accounts Payable team, taking ownership of workload planning, onboarding and performance topics.
• Manage the end‑to‑end invoice lifecycle across multiple entities, including approvals, matching, exceptions, payment runs, reconciliations, vendor master data and month‑end activities.
• Strengthen financial controls and lead improvement initiatives that reduce manual work, address root causes, and deliver measurable results.
• Act as an escalation point for vendors and internal stakeholders, managing expectations and influencing decisions through clear, data‑backed recommendations.
• Oversee AP systems and tooling, define requirements, support user acceptance testing, and champion the adoption of automation and reporting solutions.