Accounts Payable Manager - Payment Services (Retail)

• Love what you do and leave your mark
• Fixed term contract role of 12 months
• Location - Sydney/ Melbourne/ Adelaide / Hobart
• Hybrid ways of working 

The Accounts Payable Manager (Retail) is the operational lead for the Group’s Related related Procure-to-Pay (P2P) cycle, responsible for ensuring that Endeavour Group’s retail invoices are paid accurately, on time and in full. This role is also the escalation point for critical vendor disputes, manages the GR/IR (Goods Received / Invoice Received) policy, COUPA procurement system for non trade procurement (including partnership invoices and credit card management), transition of suppliers to preferred electronic invoice methods and any other automation initiatives in the retail payable space.

This role is integral to enabling the transition and standing up of Retail payable processes in the offshore team and jointly enabling a successful implementation of a new SAP ERP. The Accounts Payable Manager is responsible for providing direction and oversight of the offshore retail payables team, and embraces opportunities to improve processes and and transition to a centralised payables team for the Group.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

System and Process Delivery, Improvement & Projects

• ERP System Delivery: Completion of new ERP testing, playing a key role with management of defects and required post go-live system enhancements

• Process Excellence: Driving, setting and delivering pre and post go-live ERP processes

• Transition Enablement: Onboarding, training and transition of knowledge and processes to new offshore processing team

• System Optimisation: Leverage systems to drive efficiencies, automating manual invoices and processes

• Process Simplification: Identify opportunities to streamline processes and implement best-practice standardisation.

• Workarounds Management: Based on system and applications delivered on 

Balance Sheet, Audit & Compliance

• GR/IR Stewardship: Oversee and ensure Goods Received / Invoice Received (GR/IR) is managed per Group policy

• Month-End Close: Lead the AP month-end close process, ensuring the sub-ledger balances reconcile to the General Ledger and delivering accurate accruals for un-invoiced liabilities.

• Reconciliations Excellence: Performing secondary review for select balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring robust controls, timely risk and issue identification and resolution, and engagement with business units

• Audit & Reporting periods: Seamless full-year deliverables and coordination and delivery of external auditor requests and requirements

Payables Processes & Offshore Governance

• Workflow Management: Oversight over the daily operations of the offshore processing team and agreed Payables related Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

• Process Integrity: Enforce strict adherence to the Delegation of Authority (DoA) and Group Procurement Policy. Ensure all non-PO invoices are coded correctly and routed to the appropriate business approver without delay.

• Exception Handling: Act as the primary escalation point for invoices processing, working with internal business stakeholders to resolve system or pricing discrepancies or receipting issues.

• Compliance: Ensure all payments comply with statutory requirements and internal financial controls

Vendor Management

• Vendor Partnership: Serve as the senior point of contact for critical suppliers, managing the resolution of complex disputes regarding short-payments, missed invoices, or credit notes to protect the supply chain relationship.

• Vendor Queries and Disputes: Oversight over Vendor queries, ensuring timely and accurate query resolution

• Payment Run Management: Ensure coordination and execution of the weekly supplier payment runs and liaise with Group’s Treasury team

Now let’s talk about you: 

• 5+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Shared Services, or Global Business Services, with at least 3-5 years in a senior leadership role overseeing Payments, Treasury, or end-to-end O2C/P2P functions

• Experience in managing an offshore or outsourced shared service delivery model with high levels of business satisfaction is highly desirable. Successfully led multi location, highly engaged teams

• Experience in successful Finance technology programs (including SAP ERP implementations) is highly desirable

• Experience with change management and embedding new capabilities

• Proven track record of success in driving process optimisation, leveraging technology, data and best practice insights

• Relevant professional qualification (e.g., CPA, CIMA, MBA) or equivalent experience

Measuring success

• Successful delivery of selected pre and post SAP go-live testing and performance metrics

• Ongoing performance and service levels

• Progressive simplification, standardisation and optimisation of processes

• Financial objectives and targets achieved

• Outcomes of external and internal audit and risk reviews

• Business satisfaction and feedback

• Stakeholder engagement and satisfaction

The benefits are good too! 

• An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation, BWS, Dan Murphy’s and other Endeavour Group brands. Through our partnership with Woolworths, you'll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W 
• As a valued member of the team, your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big
• Find out more about our range of benefits and discounts here

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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