Account Payable Manager – US Client

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

IFS - Internal Firm Services - Other

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in finance focus on providing financial advice and strategic guidance to clients, helping them optimise their financial performance and make informed business decisions. These individuals handle financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and risk management.

In financial operations at PwC, you will focus on managing financial processes and confirming compliance with regulations. You will handle tasks such as financial reporting, budgeting, and risk management.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

As a Manager you will lead an international small team in Argentina, Uruguay and India responsible to do massive payments of high critical vendors that have significant impacts on business.  

Main responsibilities are:

• Standardize and align processes, ensure SoPs reviews and updates.

• Be the EDI focal point for the Controls team, ensure evidence is provided on time and ensure internal controls are successfull.

• Manage a global team working closely with the EDI Team lead and EDI team members to execute successful invoice processing.

• Work closely with the India AP manager to ensure alignment in Vendor creation and invoice payments.

• Mitigate business risk & ensure compliance; and,

• Strategically manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

Drive operational excellence by:

• Defining KPIs and management reporting and being accountable for meeting SLAs and expected results;

• Identify trends, providing regular reports to stakeholders, highlighting achievements and areas for improvement;

• Fostering a continuous improvement culture across the AP team;

• Understanding industry benchmarks and technology innovations in the market; and,

• Understanding Firmwide business intelligence resources and making them available to the EDI team members to enhance operations.

Requirements:

- Education: Bachelor degree in Public Accounting, Business Administration or similar.

- Experience: +5 years in Account payable &/or vendor management as well as project management and strong stakeholders management at all levels.

- English: Advanced level C1 (both oral & written).

- Digital Tools: S4 or SAP Cloud (for payments) is mandatory. Nice to have Zicus, Power BI, ThoughtSpot, QlikView.

- Softs skills: Leadership, project management skills, excellent communication skills, ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise fashion; ability to multi-task and work with a sense of urgency in a dynamic, fast paced environment;  organizational skills, highly detail oriented, collaborative, capable to follow multiple deadlines, flexibility, adaptability, self-starter, dynamic.

Additional application instructions

• Understand the importance of have a correct information management

• Knowledge of Information Security and Data Protection

• Correct Information Security Management

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to ethnicity; creed; color; religion; national origin; age; disability; neurodiversity; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; marital; or any other status protected by law. PwC is proud to be an inclusive organization and equal opportunity employer.

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

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