Team Leader, Accounts Payable (FSS)
Penang, MY
Ambu Financial Shared Service Team is expanding its team, and we’re looking for a new candidate to join us on our journey.
Why choose Ambu Financial Shared Service Team?
- We believe that our people are the foundation of the team.
- We strive to constantly improve, and to ensure that our members are properly equipped to handle the rapidly changing time we’re in.
- We’re committed to building the right team to propel us further.
What you'll be doing:
Leading Accounts Payable team in delivering accounts payable tasks to a multinational medical company, deliver a professional and consistent service to stakeholders and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to achieving effective end-to-end performance.
As part of our team, you will be:-
- Taking ownership of the transactional accounts payable and Travelling & Expense (T&E) process delivery for global and ensure its run effectively and KPI performance is achieved.
- Provides direction/oversight on Accounts Payable critical transactions, control and reporting.
- Drive process improvement and support cross-country alignment, standardization and automation.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders including HQ Finance, Local Finance, as well as business stakeholders and external suppliers to lead operational excellence, while maintaining controls and reporting.
- Keep track of issues and provides quality root cause analysis (RCA) to identified gaps, as well as implement effective solution that eliminates the cause of the issue from the root.
- Drive/support setting clear strategic vision for the area of responsibility, ensuring it is aligned with Global Service Centre Operational strategy and is understood and adopted by team members.
- Able to handle any ad-hoc task assigned from time to time.
We’re looking for someone who (preferably) is:-
- Candidates must posses at least a Professional Degree in Accountancy, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
- 6 years and above working experience with at least 2 to 3 years in a supervisory position, preferably in a fast-paced global shared service environment.
- Able to handle multi-tasking of Purchase to Pay related activities.
- Experience in using ERP systems is an added advantage.
- Work towards tight deadline.
- Good people skills, self driven, motivated, broad minded, able to think ahead and should be comfortable working in a team environment.
- Good communication skills in English, both spoken and written.
- Computer literate - strong in Microsoft Excel.
- Travelling might be required.