About the Role
Key Requirements:
- BCom or Accounting degree.
- 6–8 years' experience in Accounts Payable / Procure-to-Pay (P2P), ideally within a shared services environment.
- 3–5 years' experience managing and developing a team.
- Hands-on experience with an automated AP/P2P platform, preferably Zycus.
- Strong understanding of Oracle integration and digital finance processes.
- Excellent data analytics skills and experience working with dashboards and KPIs.
- Power BI experience is highly advantageous.
- Familiarity with AI-driven automation, particularly invoice processing and workflow management.
- Strong commercial awareness, cash flow management and payment control experience.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach and develop the Accounts Payable team, transforming the function into a team of skilled analysts and exception handlers.
- Take ownership of the end-to-end AP function, ensuring service delivery, month-end close and creditor reconciliations meet agreed SLAs.
- Act as the business owner of Zycus eInvoicing and Merlin AI, overseeing system configuration, workflows, user access and integration with Oracle.
- Drive automation and optimise invoice capture, matching and approval workflows to increase touchless invoice processing.
- Manage group payment runs, ensuring suppliers are paid accurately and on time while maximising early payment discounts.