Accounts Payable Team Lead

Essilor Shared Services Philippines Incorporated; Muntinlupa; On-site; PHP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Essilor Shared Services Philippines Incorporated is seeking an Accounts Payable Supervisor to lead the AP team, including Team Leaders, Accountants, and Specialists, ensuring service levels and resource planning are met. You will work with the Line Manager to identify value-added opportunities and support global process standardization across Shared Services.

Collaboration with AR and GL reporting is essential.

Qualifications

• Must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree in Finance/Accountancy or equivalent.
• At least 5 years accounts payable or general accounting-related work experience in a supervisory role.
• Experience in Shared Services/BPO preferred.
• Experience with ERP Systems (Oracle preferred).
• Strong analytical and numerical skills; proficient in Excel.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities; able to lead teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize and implement daily, weekly and monthly tasks of the AP team.
• Monitor KPI performance for each team member and take corrective actions.
• Coordinate with ERP experts on AP and payment processes.
• Lead capacity and address daily AP concerns.
• Process vendors' invoices and employee expense reports.
• Resolve invoice and expense report issues and verify receipts against expenses.
• Supervise AP Team Leaders administratively and delegate tasks.
• Provide performance evaluations through regular reviews.

Skills

Excel skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Team player

People skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accountancy

Tools

Oracle ERP

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Accounts Payable Supervisor is responsible for directing the day-to-day operations of the Accounts Payable (AP) Team. Primary responsibility is the supervision of the Team leaders, Accountants and Specialists in ensuring delivery of service level commitment and proper resource planning and allocation. Assist the Line Manager in continuously looking for and identifying value-added opportunities for Finance Shared Services Center that could be brought to the business, develop plan and implement action to realize the available opportunities. Requires close coordination with the Finance Operational Excellence team to maintain global alignment and standardization of the processes in the Shared Services and ensuring strong internal control/quality assurance culture is in place. Also requires close coordination with the Accounts Receivable (AR) and General Ledger (GL) Reporting Team to ensure alignment from recording to reporting requirements of receivables accounts for Transitions and Essilor customers.

Key responsibilities

• Planning, organizing and implementing the daily, weekly and monthly task of the team
• Responsible for setting and monitoring the key performance indices of each member of the AP team
• Responsible for monitoring the progress of each team member and initiating necessary actions to meet and exceed various targets
• Main liaison with ERP experts for the processes of AP and Payment
• Acts as lead capacity in answering daily AP concerns
• Processes vendors' invoices and employees expense reports
• Responsible for the resolution of invoice and expense report issues and problems
• Responsible for checking expense report against receipts
• Supervise AP Team Leaders administratively and assign and delegate tasks/activities
• Provide Performance evaluation to subordinates through Performance Review on a regular basis

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree in Finance/Accountancy or equivalent
• At least 5 years accounts payable or general accounting-related work experience in a supervisory role
• Should have experience in Shared Services/BPO
• Should have experience with ERP Systems (Oracle preferred)
• Should have good analytical skills
• Above average communication and interpersonal skills
• Team player skills
• Good people's skills
• Excellent EXCEL skills
• Proven ability to work under pressure