Accounts Payable Manager

Accounts Payable Manager

Role Overview

The Accounts Payable Manager is responsible for overseeing Accounts Payable operations, supplier reconciliations, payment processing, and month-end activities. The role will lead a small team, ensure strong financial controls, maintain supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement across the Accounts Payable function.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead, coach, and support the Accounts Payable team to ensure high performance and service excellence.
• Manage workload and priorities to ensure timely completion of reconciliations, invoice processing, and payments.
• Provide guidance and escalation support for complex supplier and payment-related issues.
• Identify development opportunities and drive process improvements across the function.

Accounts Payable Operations

• Oversee supplier statement reconciliations and ensure balances agree with the finance system.
• Review reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, and resolve aged, disputed, or unmatched items.
• Maintain accurate records of outstanding items, ownership, and ageing.
• Act as the primary contact for supplier queries and reconciliation-related matters.
• Ensure accurate invoice coding, approvals, and supporting documentation.
• Support purchase order management and supplier remittances.

Payments Management

• Review aged creditor balances and recommend payment priorities in line with cash flow requirements.
• Ensure disputed or unmatched transactions are resolved before payment.
• Monitor invoice and payment approval status, escalating delays as necessary.
• Prepare and review payment runs.
• Provide analysis and reporting on supplier balances, payment priorities, and outstanding issues.

Month-End Close & Controls

• Coordinate completion of Accounts Payable reconciliations for month-end close.
• Review aged creditors and drive resolution of outstanding items.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Support accruals, prepayments, journals, and related balance sheet reconciliations.
• Report on reconciliation status, unresolved issues, and key risks to management.

Experience & Skills Required

• Significant Accounts Payable experience, including supplier reconciliations and supplier relationship management.
• Previous experience leading, mentoring, or supervising an Accounts Payable team.
• Strong experience in aged creditor analysis, discrepancy investigation, and issue resolution.
• Sound understanding of Accounts Payable controls and month-end processes.
• Experience managing payment runs and invoice processing within a controlled finance environment.
• Strong Excel skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines.
• Experience in Financial Services is desirable.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 is preferred but not essential.

About FNZ

FNZ is a global FinTech firm transforming the way financial institutions serve their wealth management customers. Through its technology, transaction, and custody services, FNZ partners with banks, insurers, and asset managers to deliver efficient, scalable, and innovative wealth management solutions to advisers and investors worldwide.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with the world’s leading financial institutions, with over US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).

Together with our clients, we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.