Accounts Payable Team Lead

You will lead the AP team, ensure cost‑effective and high‑performance accounting and reporting processes within the SSC in line with SLAs and key objectives, support the integration of migrated activities, and report directly to the SSC Director.

Responsibilities

Accounting and financial activities

• Contribute to daily operational activities, if needed
• Accountable for end-to-end AP deliverables and service quality
• Ensure smooth daily operations in close cooperation with country finance teams
• Drive standardization and harmonization of AP processes across countries to improve efficiency and scalability
• Identify and implement continuous process improvements and automation opportunities
• Coordinate financial closing activities in collaboration with the General Accounting team
• Actively participate in transition and migration of AP activities into SSC, ensuring smooth knowledge transfer and process stabilization
• Coordinate and oversee the onboarding of new tasks, ensuring proper planning, execution, and alignment with stakeholders
• Ensure all processes and tasks are properly documented and up to date

Stakeholder management activity:

• Actively participate in SSC governance at the operational level
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across SSC, local entities and other relevant stakeholders to ensure alignment on processes and deadlines
• Proactively identify process issues and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to implement effective solutions
• Act as a key point of contact for AP-related topics across the organization

Team Management:

• Lead, motivate, and develop the AP team, fostering a positive and high-performance culture
• Organize team structure and ensure effective task allocation and rotation to support flexibility and knowledge sharing
• Manage resource planning and workload distribution to ensure optimal efficiency and service delivery
• Ensure team members are properly trained and continuously developed
• Ensure availability and proper usage of tools and systems required for daily operations
• Support SSC Director in defining and implementing performance measurement frameworks and tools
• Monitor and analyze AP KPIs, driving actions for performance improvement
• Conduct regular performance evaluations and provide feedback to team members

Education and experience:

• Degree in Finance, Economy, Management or Accounting
• 3-5+ years of accounts payable experience and a first exposure to team management, experience in shared services environment desirable

Requirements

• Excel advanced skills (Macro, Pivot Table…)
• Experience in shared service environment desirable
• Good working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and International Accounting Standards
• Good working knowledge on P2P tools (such as Basware, ITSOFT etc.)
• English proficiency required

Other requirements:

• Good analytical ability
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent customer service skills is desirable
• Atitude for process improvement
• Excellent people skills – both for team and customers
• Enthusiastic, positive attitude to support a constructive working environment