About the role
Position Overview
The Accounts Payable (AP) Payment Processing Lead is responsible for managing end-to-end supplier payments, ensuring timely and accurate payment execution, and maintaining compliance with AP controls and audit requirements. The role involves overseeing payment operations, resolving payment-related issues, supporting invoice processing and reconciliations, collaborating with stakeholders, and driving process improvements and automation initiatives. The ideal candidate has strong Accounts Payable expertise, leadership experience, and hands-on knowledge of Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes and ERP systems.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end supplier payment processing and payment run activities.
- Review and resolve payment exceptions, rejected payments, and escalations.
- Support invoice processing, vendor query resolution, bank reconciliations, and vendor account reconciliations.
- Ensure compliance with Accounts Payable controls, approval workflows, service level agreements (SLAs), and audit requirements.
- Monitor team performance, key performance indicators (KPIs), and overall process effectiveness.
- Partner with Finance teams and business stakeholders to ensure seamless payment operations.
- Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and operational efficiencies.
Key Success Measures
- Payment Operations – Supplier payments processed accurately and on time
- Accounts Payable Performance – Invoice processing, Vendor account reconciliations
- Compliance & Controls -Compliance with regulatory, financial, and audit
- Team Leadership & Productivity - AP team consistently meeting or exceeding KPI targets.
Skills & Experience
- , , MBA (Finance), CA Inter/ ACCA Dropout
- Minimum 5 years of Accounts Payable experience, including at least 2 years of leadership experience in payment processing.
- Strong hands-on experience in invoice processing and end-to-end Procure-to-Pay (P2P) operations.
- Hands-on experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Ariba) and MS Excel.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for vendor and stakeholder management.
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines under pressure.
- Analytical mindset for reconciliations and variance analysis.
- Prior experience in shared services or global AP operations preferred.
- Knowledge of automation tools is an advantage.
Education -- / MBA / Inter/ACCA dropout
Shift Time – 12.30 to 10 PMIST/ 1.30 to 11.00 PMIST