Global Organisation seeks a Purchase to Pay Manager to join the business on a contract basis. The Purchase to Pay Manager will lead and manage a centralised processing centre for the purchase to pay function for the European business including expense management.

Duties of the Purchase to Pay Manager include:

• Lead a central processing team to manage the purchase to pay function for Europe, UK, Morocco, Deutschland, and Turkey.
• Act as day-to-day transactional support for Purchase ledger Oracle activity throughout the Group. In particular support the UK AP functions providing training and advice as necessary.
• Regular review of aged items with goal towards ensuring no invoices are + 3 months overdue. Similar work with EHQ team to ensure the MRO (receipted items no invoice) account does not contain long outstanding accruals that are no longer required
• Be sufficiently aware of the detail to be able to provide cover for the team during illness / holiday.
• Maintain a strong working relationship with the General Ledger teams and the Consolidation team, ensure month end AP queries are resolved with minimum issue allowing the reporting to teams to produce their reports and outputs in a timely manner.
• Work with the Centre of Excellence team to drive process improvement and consistency throughout the Group in P2P.
• Maintain and manage expense management system across Europe in Concur.
• Transition the remaining entities for use of Concur upload to Oracle, reducing need for manual input.
• Ensure reconciliations are performed between purchase and general ledgers on a monthly basis for each entity
• Manage master data for the purchase to pay area in Oracle.

Requirement for the Purchase to Pay Manager include:

• Experience in managing an AP function across locations
• Excellent management skills.
• Excellent people skills.
• Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills and the ability to use own initiative.
• Analytical problem solving and decisive decision-making skills.
• Oracle or SAP experience
• Previous Experience with and knowledge of Concur.
• Plus 10 years working within Purchase to pay / accounts payable area, with minimum 5 of those years in a Manger / supervisor position.
• Experience of working in a large multi-national and multi-currency organisation.

Hybrid Working