Cytel
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cytel.com
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Job Description
This leader will oversee invoice processing, employee reimbursements, vendor payments, and regulatory compliance, while partnering cross-functionally to enhance working capital management, operational scalability, and financial controls.
The ideal candidate brings 10+ years of progressive experience in Accounts Payable, Expense Management, and P2P operations, along with a proven track record leading global teams within multinational or shared services environments and delivering measurable operational excellence
Responsibilities
Global Accounts Payable Operations
- Lead and manage end-to-end AP operations across multiple legal entities in the US, EMEA, and APAC regions.
- Oversee invoice intake, validation, processing, payment execution, vendor statement reconciliations, and AP aging analysis.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, contractual terms, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Govern vendor master data integrity, including supplier onboarding and maintenance processes.
- Monitor and report on AP performance metrics, ensuring adherence to established service level agreements (SLAs) and KPIs.
- Collaborate with Procurement and Treasury to optimize payment terms and improve working capital performance.
- Strengthen internal controls and proactively drive fraud prevention and payment security initiatives.
- Manage end-to-end processing of pass-through costs, ensuring accurate and timely handoff to Billing/Invoicing teams (experience with Sunshine Reporting preferred).
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities, including accruals, reconciliations, and journal entries.
- Identify and implement opportunities for automation, efficiency gains, and process standardization.
Employee Expenses & Travel Management
- Oversee global employee expense reimbursement programs and travel-related financial processes.
- Ensure timely review, approval, and reimbursement of employee expenses in line with policy.
- Drive compliance with T&E policies and proactively identify and address exceptions or violations.
- Resolve escalated employee and travel-related issues with a focus on service excellence .
- Partner with HR and Payroll to ensure accurate and efficient reimbursement processing and reporting.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing global AP and Expense Management team.
- Establish clear performance objectives, KPIs, and professional development plans.
- Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and customer-centric service delivery.
- Optimize resource allocation and workload distribution across regions to support business growth and scalability
Qualifications
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in Accounts Payable and Employee Expense Management.
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing global or geographically dispersed teams.
- Strong expertise in Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes within multinational organizations. Experience in 1099 annual return.
- Experience working in shared services or global business services environments preferred.
- Deep familiarity with ERP systems, with preference for Oracle Fusion ERP.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with experience in Power BI or similar data visualization tools.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement capabilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information to senior leadership and non-finance stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to build and sustain a high-performance, accountable team culture, with effective delegation and prioritization.
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