Job Description:
AP Operational Manager. - The primary goal of this role is to enable operational effectiveness through partnering with stakeholders and deliver strategic processes that enable consistent, efficient, and standard service delivery in alignment with Mars Five Principles. This role is responsible to ensure Accounts Payable functional performance, measuring and improving the process. This role serves as a business partner and copilot responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders of Accounts Payable (upstream & downstream functional teams, business unit, 3rd party partners, etc.).
What are we looking for?
Essential requirements
1) Financial and accounting knowledge
2) SAP knowledge
3) People Management
Nice to have
1) Experience collaborating in Finance Service Center
2) Collaboration with 3rd party offshore Team
3) OneNavision
What will be your key responsibilities?
Business Partner driving Operational Effectiveness
Provide guidance to business partner organization, monitors & drives performance as well as collaborating on initiatives that drive overall health of AP processes, with specific focus on invoice-to-pay, disbursements and exception handling.
Direct the reporting and analytics team members to design operational metrics and dashboards; oversee scorecard results and work with key leaders to ensure business results stay on track.
Ensure team is partnering with local stakeholders to drive improvements, reduce aged balances, and deliver insights
Delivers Results through Offshore Team
Delivers results through offshore team members while not having a direct reporting relationship.
Owns on-going coaching to drive awareness of the Mars culture (Five Principles) and leadership competencies required to be successful within the global shared service organization
Continuous Improvement
Continuously upskills to align with the S&F Capability Framework
Lead standardization and documentation efforts across supported processes.
Controls & Governance
Drive FinOps to sustainable compliance by assessing the effectiveness of internal processes, controls and risks
Provide control insight and framework to address execution issues and gaps in existing control environment
What can you expect from Mars?
Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Top Skills
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.
We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
