Accounts Payable Team Leader

Summary

Join The Adaptavist Group as an Accounts Payable Team Leader (maternity cover) and lead a global AP team, ensuring seamless invoice and payment operations. You will monitor and allocate daily tasks, review supplier invoice processing, organize payments, resolve queries, and maintain departmental documents. Monthly responsibilities include vendor statement reconciliation and payment pack coordination. You will also assist with month-end reporting, year-end audits, and integration activities. This role requires strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills, along with experience in accounts payable and accounting systems. The company offers flexible working hours, a competitive holiday allowance, and MacBooks to all employees.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in accounts payable or related roles
• Experience working with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence)
• Excellent knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
• Experience working with accounting systems
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to actively listen to others and relay information clearly
• Experience in a multinational organisation with multiple entities covering a range of different currencies
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience within a high-volume environment
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to multitask
• The ability to build effective relationships with suppliers and creditors
• The ability to work well in a team and collaborate with others
• Experience with Netsuite and Xero
• Experience with Excel and Google Sheets
• Previous experience in the tech industry

Responsibilities

• Monitor and allocate daily tasks to the team
• Review supplier invoice processing, employee expense reimbursements and coding into the accounting system
• Organise adhoc payment runs, ensuring accuracy and timely payments
• Resolve queries as and when they arise
• Assist with processing and general AP-related tasks
• Update and maintain departmental i-pages
• Update and maintain departmental SOP documents
• Point of contact for internal stakeholders
• Vendor statement imports and reconciliation. ( circ.30m account)
• Payment Packs
• Coordinate with other departments to resolve payment issues
• Ensure invoices are recorded accurately and in a timely manner in the accounting system across business units and GL accounts
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and internal controls
• General communications to vendors
• Assist the team with month-end supplier and payables reporting
• Ensure vendor statement reconciliations for the accounts payable team are complete, accurate and informative
• Ensure items flagged for review are resolved
• Assist with year-end audit and indirect tax returns
• Assist integration activities (UniFi, Netsuite, Expensify, Spendesk)
• Share knowledge across the wider team to help plan and implement controls and strategies that can strengthen the overall payables workflow
• Ad-hoc tasks to support the wider finance team

Benefits

• Competitive holiday (PTO) allowance
• Flexible working hours
• MacBooks to all employees
• Additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices