Senior AP Specialist - Infor : Job Details

The main purpose of the AP Specialist – Senior role is to oversee the processing and payment of all vendor invoices in EMEA. It involves working closely with the invoice processing team within Global Business Services (GBS) in India and the local AP team in the UK Shared Service Centre to ensure all invoices are approved within company policy guidelines and paid within agreed payments terms.

As a subject matter expert, the role will involve mentoring and advising the AP team in your area of specialism, this could be payments, reporting, process improvements, communication contact with AP India team or any another aspect of the AP function.

A Day in The Life Typically Includes:

• Overseeing AP Solihull team tasks, ensuring processes are followed and deadlines achieved.
• Working with the AP Manager to drive process improvements and introduce new initiatives.
• Assisting with AP projects such as implementation of system and process changes and other ad hoc projects.
• Compiling and reviewing performance measures for both the processing team in India and the AP team in Solihull, helping to drive continuous improvement.
• Working with the team helping to ensure excellent customer service is provided to internal functions and Infor local businesses at all times.
• Producing audit reports and sample testing to measure the accuracy of invoices processing/vendor maintenance by GBS team and payments/other processes carried out by AP Solihull team.

Basic Qualifications:

• Accounts payable experience would be ideal, although experience in any similar accounting, customer service, or administrative role would be considered.
• Strong communication skills and customer service focused, with the ability to demonstrate a positive approach to resolving invoice/payment issues and queries. Ability to measure and lead a team to success.
• Ability to organize workload in a structured way, to work on own initiative where appropriate and to ensure deadlines are achieved.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Fluency in a second European or a Middle Eastern language is desirable, but not essential. (Arabic, German, French and Italian are most desired).