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Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Support and influence process design for Accounts Payable related User Stories for the deployment of SAP S/4 HANAAct as Global Process Lead for Indirect Procurement and Accounts Payable related processes within SAP including reviewing to be processes and making recommendations for final global process design with agreement with Global Process LeadAct as business lead for third party external systems including Esker, Tungsten Automation, Concur, WebDC and SCBN for integration into SAPReview and manage change impacts during regional deployment and process changesEnsure programme design principles are embedded in all project and process decisionsEnsure processes are fit for future technical and market changes in regards to automation and digitalisation of Accounts Payable activities including payment methods and practices

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Supported Accounts Payable team during Year End and during Project transition.Revised internal processes to reduce administrative tasks and improve controls around Vendor Reconciliation.Trained and supported new starters

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Process owner for all P2P activities, including review and agreeing all process changes, ensuring all have been communicated, trained and tested.Working with the GSC (Global Service Centre) to improve efficiency of service provided, including introducing and monitoring all controls for P2P activities, improving capability and efficiency of the team and ensuring process effectivenessInternational rollout of Concur system for invoice and expenses, including transition of P2P processing tasks to the GSC team from local finance teams.Manage relationship between DLA Piper and Concur, ensuring budget costs are monitored and controlledLead for P2P for new SAP (Fulcrum) system including designing new processes for the new system and ensuring all requirements are captured and included in final system configurationExpansion of ServiceNow functionality for P2P tasks including payment run validation process, Virtual Card requests, knowledge base and query management toolDevelop and deliver P2P business training and awareness to improve end user understanding of the end to end Purchase to Pay processEncouraging a culture of efficiency and process improvements to ensure clerks focused on value adding tasks and achieved annual efficiency targets to be able to take on additional work without resource

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Management of the Accounts Payable function within the finance operations shared service team. The department managed 14 business units from a central head office and handled over 400,000 invoices on an annual basis across a 3,000+ supplier base.Worked on several change management activities including implementation of a new Global P2P System for indirect spend, a new corporate card provider for over 200 users in EMEA and several changes to support working capital incentives including new payment cycles and enforced payment terms.Worked on the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) activities that led to all operational finance activities been outsourced to a third party provider and was retained to support the role out across the APAC region due to extensive knowledge of processes across EMEA and wider business.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Worked as the European Accounts Payable Team Leader with responsibility for a team of Invoice Processing Clerks, priority supplier accounts, employee expenses and corporate cards, reporting to the Accounts Payable Manager. During time in role I focussed on improving cross functionality and the skill set of the processing clerks to ensure business processing needs were met. Key Responsibilities- Managing GRNI reporting to ensure in line with business reporting requirements- Company Administrator for Corporate Cards- Implementation of new expense & company card scheme across Europe- Standardising processes and documenting procedures across Europe- Deputised for Accounts Payable Manager including management of Account Seniors- Management of team of 6 invoice processing clerks covering non-inventory and inventory invoices- Completion of monthly transactional reporting and compliance reporting- Ensuring HMRC and regional VAT requirements met- Management of non-inventory priority suppliers- Analysis of debit/ credit balances

Leeds, United Kingdom

Worked as a senior member of the Accounts Payable team with responsibility for corporate cards, European business units and multi-currency payment runs on a weekly basis in the role of Query Resolution Clerk. During my time in role I have looked to standardise processes, implement changes and drive efficiencies for non-inventory invoices, employee expenses and company cards. I have received praise from internal and external stakeholders for maintain a high level of accuracy, quality of work and delivered to tight deadlines.Key Responsibilities- Responsible for non-inventory processing and payments across 13 European ledgers- Deputise for Accounts Payable Team Leader- To ensure all principle accountabilities within invoice processing are delivered within a robust control framework in line with agreed SLA’s- See through entire process of multi-currency payment runs - Assisted in management of DPO targets, including agreeing payment holds with key suppliers- Took lead on the review of expense process within processing team and looked to review companywide Expense policy and process- Involved in projects including banking platform transition, new company card implementation, and review and selection of new document management system.- Working with key internal and external relationships with customers and key stakeholders- Analyse of Debit and Credit balances on a monthly basis- Lead on team project to ensure all procedures are documented and up-to-date, including review/check of all procedures submitted by colleagues- Responsible for ensuring all month end tasks are completed by team

Worked in Cash Allocation on European ledgers posting incoming cash onto the ledger. During this time I worked to improve unallocated cash figures by reducing figures by up to 85% in under 12 months. I worked on clearing aged balances, rectifying multiple bank reconciliation errors and cleaning up customer accounts.Key Responsibilities- Posting 10,000 manual incoming receipts on a monthly basis across European business units- Allocating receipts according to customer remittances- Making customer refunds ensuring refund policies are rigidly followed- Clearing Bank reconciliations and contra accounts- Aged credit balance analysis- Praised for work required for audit purposes by business unit accountants