Accounts Payable Supervisor

Overview

In this role you will lead the day-to-day Accounts Payable function across multiple international entities, ensuring timely invoice processing and vendor payments. You will provide operational leadership to a two-person AP team, drive process improvements, and uphold internal controls in a multinational environment. You will collaborate with finance and procurement to support month-end close and maintain strong vendor relationships. This is a chance to shape AP operations within a global biotech company making an impact on public health.

Pay / Benefits

• Stock Options
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym membership OR fitness allowance
• EV Salary Sacrifice
• Many others included

Responsibilities

• Process invoices and manage end-to-end AP across international entities
• Ensure accurate, timely invoice processing per policy and delegated limits
• Serve as primary escalation point for supplier payment issues and bottlenecks
• Identify efficiency, standardisation, and automation opportunities in AP
• Coordinate multi-currency payments and banking platform activities
• Support strong control environment including segregation of duties and workflows
• Identify and mitigate financial, operational, and compliance risks in AP
• Coordinate AP month-end close across entities
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders (finance, Global Procurement)
• Supervise and develop a two-person AP team, assign workloads, and conduct reviews
• Support training to strengthen technical and process knowledge
• Occasional out-of-hours work to support accounting calendar
• Undertake other duties as requested by line manager

Key requirements

• Minimum 5 years of Accounts Payable experience
• Experience leading or supervising a finance team
• Experience managing AP for multiple entities/countries
• Strong understanding of financial controls and month-end processes
• Experience operating automated AP solutions
• Team leadership and people development skills
• Excellent organizational and prioritization abilities
• Dynamic team player capable of contributing at all levels
• Ability to motivate and engage the team
• Flexible with changing workload and priorities

• team leadership
• stakeholder management
• organizational skills
• end-to-end AP processing
• multi-entity and multi-currency payment runs
• internal controls and compliance

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