Accounts Payable Team Lead

Overview of the role
The Accounts Payable Team Lead is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end accounts payable function, ensuring invoices, employee expense and vendor payments are processed accurately, efficiently, and in accordance with company policies and regulatory requirements. The role provides day-to-day leadership to the Accounts Payable team, supports stakeholder management, drives process improvements, and ensures service delivery standards and key performance indicators are consistently achieved. The role acts as the primary escalation point for operational issues and works closely with internal stakeholders, vendors, finance teams (onshore and offshore) to maintain a high-performing and customer focused AP function.

Main duties include:

Accounts Payable Operations

• Lead and oversee the end-to-end accounts payable process, including invoice receipt, validation,
• coding, approval workflows, and payment processing.
• Ensure accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices, employee expense claims, and corporate
• credit card transactions.
• Review and approve payment runs in accordance with delegated authorities and internal controls.
• Monitor invoice ageing, payment schedules, and outstanding liabilities, and keep them reasonable and
• up-to-date.
• Manage urgent payment requests and ensure appropriate approvals are obtained.
• Overs