Job Description
Key Responsibilities 2. Accounts Receivable (AR), Billing & Credit Control 3. Financial Closing, Reporting & Controls 4. Digitalisation, Automation & Data Analytics 5. Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Accounts Payable (AP) & Procure-to-Pay
- Oversee end-to-end accounts payable operations, including invoice processing, supplier payments, vendor master maintenance, and issue resolution.
- Ensure timely and accurate payments in accordance with approved authorities and payment terms.
- Manage AP month-end activities, including accruals, reconciliations, and balance sheet schedules.
- Support GST, withholding tax, and statutory reporting requirements relating to payables.
- Drive compliance with procurement policies, purchase orders, and three-way matching requirements.
- Lead AP process improvements and automation initiatives to enhance efficiency and control.
- Oversee billing, credit notes, customer receipts, refunds, and account reconciliations.
- Lead collection and credit-control activities to improve cash collection and minimise overdue balances.
- Monitor ageing reports, customer disputes, credit exposure, and expected cash inflows.
- Support bad debt assessments and recommend appropriate credit-control actions.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and customers to resolve billing and payment issues.
- Ensure timely completion of AP and AR month-end, quarter-end, and year-end activities.
- Review reconciliations, balance sheet schedules, and ageing reports, and resolve outstanding issues.
- Maintain strong internal controls, segregation of duties, and audit-ready documentation.
- Support internal and external audits and provide accurate and timely responses to audit and tax queries.
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, control frameworks, and process KPIs.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve operational efficiency.
- Lead workflow automation initiatives using Microsoft Power Automate and other digital tools.
- Develop dashboards and management reports using Power BI to provide operational and financial insights.
- Utilise Power Query and advanced Excel tools to analyse, reconcile, and manage large datasets.
- Act as Finance Process Owner or Key User for Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations enhancements, testing, training, and implementation activities.
- Partner with IT and system vendors to implement solutions while maintaining strong financial controls.
- Lead, coach, and develop the AP/AR team to achieve high service standards and performance.
- Monitor workload, productivity, accuracy, and KPI achievement across the team.
- Act as the escalation point for complex payment, collection, reconciliation, and customer or supplier issues.
- Drive continuous improvement and change management initiatives across finance operations.
- Build strong partnerships with Finance, Procurement, Operations, IT, and external stakeholders
Key Requirements
- Degree in Accountancy, Finance or an equivalent professional qualification.
- At least 8 years of relevant finance experience, including substantial AP and/or AR experience and prior responsibility for leading or supervising a team.
- Strong working knowledge of financial accounting, month-end close, reconciliations, internal controls, GST and credit-control practices.
- Experience in a shared-services, high-volume, distribution, food, manufacturing or similarly operational business environment is advantageous.
- Hands-on experience with an ERP system; experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations is advantageous.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, structured data analysis and reconciliation techniques.
- Working proficiency in Power Query for data extraction, transformation and repeatable reporting.
- Ability to create or enhance practical Power BI dashboards and translate finance requirements into clear visual insights.
- Ability to design, build or maintain basic Power Automate workflows, including testing, exception handling and process documentation.
- Comfortable learning AI-enabled finance tools and applying them responsibly to improve productivity, controls and decision support.
- Ability to translate business and control requirements into clear system requirements and test scenarios.