The Company
Our client is a large, well-established public sector organisation with a complex, high-volume finance function. They are undertaking a significant uplift of their Accounts Payable operations as part of a broader finance transformation agenda, and are seeking an experienced interim leader to drive this change.
The Role
This is a hands-on, delivery-focused interim engagement for someone who can walk into a pressured AP environment, stabilise it, and lead it through transformation, not just write a plan and hand it off.
You'll be reporting to the Finance Director, working alongside an AP team of circa 4 FTE, with no direct reports of your own but significant influence over how the team operates day to day.
Key focus areas:
- Backlog recovery: there is a substantial volume of aged, unactioned invoices sitting in inboxes that need to be triaged and cleared, with supplier relationships under real strain as a result
- Systems & automation: supporting the implementation of an inbox triage/ticketing solution, and working within a large ERP environment to reduce manual workarounds
- Process fixes: addressing recurring 3-way match exceptions, manual PO-related workarounds, and an outdated staff reimbursement process
- Change management: bringing a team that is used to doing things a certain way along on the journey, embedding new ways of working sustainably
- Governance & reporting: tracking progress, risks and benefits, and reporting up through Finance leadership as the function transitions toward a broader systems/transformation structure
This is as much a change and stabilisation role as it is a project management one. You'll need to build trust with an established team while driving real operational improvement.
Your Profile
- Proven experience leading AP or transnational finance functions through backlog recovery, process redesign or systems-enabled change, ideally within a shared services environment
- Either a Financial Controller background with direct AP leadership experience, or a dedicated transformation/project management professional with strong AP domain knowledge
- Comfortable working hands-on with ERP systems
- Strong stakeholder and change management skills, able to bring a settled team along through meaningful change
- Immediately available or on short notice for a 4-6 month engagement
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Reference Number: 06810-0013508344DTD
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