Accounts Payable Supervisor

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Job Summary:

Responsible for planning, scheduling, and supervising the work of an accounts payable team.

Key Responsibilities:

Supervises a group of accounts payable clerks within the established accounting policies of the corporation. Monitors records of amounts owed and assures prompt payment of invoices. Recommends changes in methods and procedures to improve the efficiency of the accounts payable unit. Coaches and mentors accounts payable clerks; assigns work according to availability, skills, and developmental needs; assesses performance and provides feedback to direct reports. Competencies:
Builds effective teams - Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.

Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Develops talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.

Directs work - Providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done.

Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.

Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.

Manages conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.

Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Business Partnering - Collaborates with stakeholders and develops partnerships to drive performance that aligns to organizational goals and strategies; influences the organization by demonstrating knowledge of the business to provide guidance to support the decision making process and guiding the business towards positive results and organizational alignment; evaluates business environment using measures to mitigate risk and capitalize on opportunities.

Business Process and Internal Control Risk Analysis - Evaluates business processes to identify risks and internal control gaps; applies understanding of business processes and relevant risks to develop and implement process improvements; develops risk management plans by applying internal control framework to address identified risks.

Financial Analysis - Interprets financial data by analyzing trends, variances, opportunities and risks to provide insight to stakeholders regarding financial impact to drive business improvement; evaluates financial results against targets to communicate conclusions to all stakeholders; ensures integrity of financial data by investigating variances and determining corrective actions to resolve identified issues.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:
College, university, or equivalent degree in Accounting, Finance or related field or equivalent related work experience required.

Experience:
Intermediate level of relevant professional work experience in the field of study required, including some supervisory experience.

1. Educational Qualifications - College, university, or equivalent degree in Accounting, Finance or related field required. Certified. Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Chartered Accountant or similar certification required.
2. Experience Level - 9+ years of relevant experience in Procure to Pay, must have strong attention to detail and well organized. Ability to multi-task, work under pressure, and meet tight deadlines, working globally would be an advantage.
3. Job Summary - Responsible for planning, scheduling, and supervising the work of an accounts payable team
4. Key Role Responsibilities 
   1. Preferred experience in captive shared services environment ensuring KPI’s and SLA’s are adhered too.
   2. Experience in global Procure to Pay process, Grant of Authority, Invoice dispute resolution and identifies training and development needs, and establishes performance standards for the function
   3. Identify, analyse process GAPs and drive standardization / simplification of AP process within GCC
   4. Basic understanding on indirect taxation in the world of Accounts Payable and understanding of working with multi currency invoices
   5. Hands on experience with Vendor partner, Stakeholder reviews and preparing monthly performance review.
   6. Supervises a group of accounts payable clerks within the established accounting policies of the corporation.
   7. Monitors records of amounts owed and assures prompt payment of invoices.
   8. Recommends changes in methods and procedures to improve the efficiency of the accounts payable unit.
   9. Assesses vendor performance, provides feedback to direct reports
   10. Manages the review of work methods and procedures; considers the impact of any changes on the overall organization; develops and implements changes in those methods and procedures to improve the efficiency of the accounts payable unit.
   11. Acts as a point of escalation for complex, non-routine accounts payable issues and problems.

5. Required Skills & Competencies - Action Oriented, Customer Focus, Business Partnering, General Ledger Knowledge and Managing complexity

 

Cummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.