Accounts Payable Lead Northern Europe

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Accounts Payable Lead Northern Europe

Apply locations Birmingham, United Kingdom time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R-125749

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.

Come and join Mondelez International as Accounts Payable Lead, Northern Europe based in Bournville! In this role you will lead one of the largest Business Units in Europe, managing a small team, acting as the key liaison between Mondelez and the BPO, ensuring compliance with KPIS, SLAs and providing outstanding customer experience. You will drive continuous improvement, leading training and managing projects. As a senior Finance professional with extensive knowledge in Accounts Payable you will act as the subject matter expert in this area for your cluster.

In this role you will:

• Manage approx. 1.5 billion worth of payment with 165,000 invoices in a year
• Manage approx. 500 million worth of exceptions with 5,000 invoices in a year
• Lead stakeholder management for finance, procurement, and suppliers
• Manage the relationships between Accenture and Mondelez and will possess excellent relationship management skills.
• Manage 3 Accounts Payable resources

The role

• Manage stakeholders for one of the biggest Business Units in Europe
• Build local proximity with suppliers in given BUs to streamline experience for all strategic suppliers and help procurement to negotiate better.
• Exceptional Accounts Payable Subject Matter Expertise
• In-depth transaction level SAP knowledge
• Handling Accounts Payable exceptions & query management
• Handling day to day fire fighting from internal and external stakeholders
• BPO Operations experience to work with service provider and to improve customer experience.
• Monitoring Service provider KPI, SLA & manage Accounts Payable processes within Industry / Mondelez compliance frame.
• Manage Payment Term law across European Countries as the European Union have decided to apply the Payment term law.
• European Geography knowledge with local VAT & Tax laws
• Drive continuous improvement with Service Provider for your respective cluster and Europe.
• Stakeholder management with Internal Procurement, Finance, Mdlz plants and Suppliers to build a strong work relationship.
• Knowledge cascading including training others and creating process documentation.
• Open to take any additional responsibilities, all types of Project management support for the respective cluster, BU and region.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with judgment and decision-making capability and the ability to articulate ideas, actively listen, and read non-verbal communication.
• Engaging, inspiring, and influencing people.
• Analysing and synthesizing ideas to draw objective conclusions and to write concise reports.

This role is based in our Birmingham (Bournville) office. We operate a hybrid model - 3 days in the office and 2 from home.

Benefits

• Annual Bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and opportunity to buy 5 extra days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Contributory Pension
• Discounts on a range of products and services
• Free secure parking
• Training and development opportunities

Relocation Support Available?

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

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Job Type

Regular Service Operations (Delivery) Global Business Services

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands – both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum.

Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.