Accounts payable team leader ARAD

Main requirements:

• Accounting experience at the level of Senior Accountant;
• Basic people management skills (not necessarily experienced but real potential), being able to follow up, guide and support on the day-to-day basis, technically, the AP team;
• Preferably automotive experience;
• Experienced SAP FICO (GL) user;
• Excel - advanced level;
• English advanced level;
• Time management;
• Communicating effectively;
• Analytical skills;
• Able to respect deadlines;
• Results oriented.

Job description

• Supervise a team of 6+ people within the accounts payable area;
• Provide trainings, guidance, allocate tasks and responsibilities;
• Understand and review the details of the end-to-end accounting transactions, wherever necessary, including the GL responsibility;
• Execute by himself/herself similar tasks as the team members (AP booking) with a certain level of complexity difficulty;
• Coordinate the solving of identified matching errors, discrepancies on invoices in relationship with connected department and partners;
• Follow-up and have the ownership of the specific AP departments’ KPI’s;
• Key contribution to process improvement in the AP area and all the connected processes (Ex. full end-to-end Procure-to-Pay flow);
• Direct contribution to standardization, improvement and automation initiatives within accounts payable department by using at maximum the digitalization;
• Direct involvement in the month-end closing activities, having a clear role within the Finance team.
• Assist and support the incoming audits by providing necessary information and preparing documentation requested by auditors and fiscal inspectors;
• Ensure continuity and adequate staffing within the AP team, by implementing effective planning;
• Act as liaison between team members, upper management and other departments, on behalf of AP team;
• Implement and follow-up the internal controls specific to the AP area;