Accounts payable team leader - Airbus

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Randstad has partnered with Airbus on the conception of a Global Businesses Services in Lisbon and was challenged to find the best talents to structure a high level team.

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Key responsabilities:

• Support and assist Accounts Payable (AP) services manager for all management dimensions (assessment salary increase, promotion, management of competencies, training, development);
• Responsible for AP team operational performance;
• Propose recommendations and supervises implementation on Accounts Payable policies and procedures
• Proposes and implements process harmonization and standardization between the different legal entities and promotes an end to end Procure to Pay approach;
• Escalates back office issues related to AP process and applications;
• Prepare reporting of KPI's to customer and stakeholders to display process performance and propose mitigation actions with Customer and other stakeholders;
• Ensure strict compliance with Finance, AP, Purchasing, and Supply Chain policies and procedures;
• Propose and implement continuous improvement opportunities;
• Monitoring of incoming invoice flows from suppliers;
• Ensure payment of invoices in due time that respect full conformance with internal and external requirements;
• Internal customer and external supplier query/claim resolution on a timely basis, including supporting to litigation topics;
• Investigate and resolve blocking invoices issues;
• Supervises vendor statement reconciliations (VSR-s);
• Build and sustain a robust relationship with “customers”;
• Be a focal point for customer relationship;
• Work in close collaboration with “customers” to identify and implement solutions for problems encountered on a daily basis;
• Support the AP services manager in special projects (i.e systems evolution).

• Accounting / Accounts payable background and a minimum of 8 to 10 years professional experience in a commercial or industrial environment involving tight deadlines;
• Team management experience;
• Experience in escalating issue resolution, team building, training and team support.
• Good communication skills, rigor, conscientious;
• Demonstrated ability to organize and coordinate multiple tasks, build strong cross functional relationships and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization;
• Proven ability to work in a team and independently;
• Systems and tools working knowledge of SAP desirable with a strong desire to developfurther
• Languages: English - capacity to daily interact with English native speakers. Other european languages (French / german) would be a plus.