Team Lead - Accounts Payable

Position Overview

The Accounts Payable (AP) Payment Processing Lead is responsible for managing end-to-end supplier payments, ensuring timely and accurate payment execution, and maintaining compliance with AP controls and audit requirements. The role involves overseeing payment operations, resolving payment-related issues, supporting invoice processing and reconciliations, collaborating with stakeholders, and driving process improvements and automation initiatives. The ideal candidate has strong Accounts Payable expertise, leadership experience, and hands-on knowledge of Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes and ERP systems.

Job Details

• Work Location: Noida/Ahmedabad (Hybrid)
• Reports to: Manager
• Department: F&A

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end supplier payment processing and payment run activities.
• Review and resolve payment exceptions, rejected payments, and escalations.
• Support invoice processing, vendor query resolution, bank reconciliations, and vendor account reconciliations.
• Ensure compliance with Accounts Payable controls, approval workflows, service level agreements (SLAs), and audit requirements.
• Monitor team performance, key performance indicators (KPIs), and overall process effectiveness.
• Partner with Finance teams and business stakeholders to ensure seamless payment operations.
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and operational efficiencies.

Key Success Measures

• Payment Operations - Supplier payments processed accurately and on time
• Accounts Payable Performance - Invoice processing, Vendor account reconciliations
• Compliance & Controls - Compliance with regulatory, financial, and audit
• Team Leadership & Productivity - AP team consistently meeting or exceeding KPI targets.

Skills & Experience

• Accounts Payable
• Invoice processing
• Procure-to-Pay (P2P) operations
• ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Ariba)
• MS Excel
• Vendor management
• Stakeholder management
• Automation tools
• Variance analysis

Education

B.Com / MBA / M.Com / CA Inter / ACCA dropout

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