Accounts Payable Lead

**About Beca**

Beca is one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design, and engineering consultancies. After a century of operation, we have grown from a family-owned business to one of our region's most progressive, client-centric professional services consultancies. We have more than 4,000 employees in 24 offices around the world and have delivered projects in more than 70 countries.

‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations, and our purpose - to make everyday better. We create value through understanding and delivering successful solutions, exceptional service, and enduring relationships. We use our skills and systems to empower innovation, helping our clients shape communities, optimise their assets, and streamline their operations.

Our employee-ownership model remains key to our future. It underpins our commitment to building and sustaining long-term relationships with our clients, it helps drive our positive, purpose-driven, and growth-oriented culture, it sets us apart from our competitors, and it gives meaning to our social contract.

While our experience has been 100 years in the making, it is the fresh talent we're nurturing, the innovative thinking we're developing and the connections that we're forging that get us most excited for the future.

**The Opportunity**

As the Accounts Payable Lead, you will play a pivotal role within the AP and finance team, taking charge of accounts payable invoice processing and management. Leading a team of AP Administrators spanning New Zealand and Indonesia, you will provide inspirational leadership, driving their daily excellence. Your responsibilities encompass ensuring efficient and accurate processing while adhering to approval processes and delegated financial authorities. A significant aspect of your role will involve identifying and implementing process improvements, optimizing the efficiency of the AP function in preparation for our digital transformation.

**About You**

Your domain is Accounts Payable, and you bring a wealth of expertise with a constant eye on improvement. Operating within a high-paced environment isn't daunting to you - in fact, you thrive in such settings. You boast a wealth of experience in high-volume scenarios, embracing challenges with vigor. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite is second nature to you, accompanied by a meticulous approach to accuracy and detail. Most importantly, your leadership inspires and motivates your team. Ideally, your background encompasses large global organizations with a modern twist, including exposure to ERP systems.

To succeed in this role, you will:

- Display a strong penchant for process improvement, coupled with analytical and problem-solving skills
- Identify process enhancements and confidently adapts to new systems and procedures
- Manage invoices across multiple locations, adhering to internal Delegation of Authorities and approval policies
- Supervise end-of-month processes within the accounts function, collaborating closely with the financial accounting team to meet reporting deadlines
- Distribute workload, manage performance, provide feedback, offer ongoing training, and guide the AP Team and business partners
- Familiarity with a medium to large ERP accounts payable system, preferably Oracle.
- Exposure to external and internal audit requirements
- A relevant finance degree would be advantageous

**A career with Beca offers**
- Ongoing professional development opportunities
- A supportive and caring work environment where you can bring your whole self to work.
- Flexible working arrangements to balance your personal and family commitments.
- A highly supportive environment of sharing and collaboration.
- Excellent benefits are provided to all staff - from volunteer and wellbeing leave through to health insurance, enhanced parental leave and a huge number of corporate discounts with retailers.
- New learnings from our industry experts and technical gurus across the Asia-Pacific.

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture - open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.

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