The Role
Lead the Group Accounts Payable function to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant invoice processing. Manage and develop AP staff, drive process improvements and AP automation (including AI tools), reconcile vendor statements, coordinate cash funding, support audits, deliver regulatory reporting, and partner cross-functionally to resolve payment issues using ERP systems like Workday.
Summary Generated by Built In
Role Purpose
Appen's finance function plays a critical role in maintaining the operational and financial integrity of a complex, global organisation. The purpose of this role is to lead the Group Accounts Payable function, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant processing of vendor invoices and payments across the business. Based in Cavite and working hybrid across AEST hours (7am-4pm PH time), the Accounts Payable Supervisor owns the end-to-end AP process, drives continuous improvement, and partners closely with internal stakeholders and the Group Financial Controller to deliver a high-performing finance operation.
Your Impact
•Lead the day-to-day operations of the Group Accounts Payable function, ensuring invoices and payments are processed accurately and on time
•Drive process improvement initiatives, including the adoption of AI tools and AP automation to reduce manual effort and increase efficiency
•Manage and develop a team of accounts payable specialists, providing hands-on training, support, and performance guidance
•Oversee vendor statement reconciliations and resolve discrepancies promptly to maintain strong supplier relationships
•Coordinate entity cash funding transfers and manage budget oversight to support optimal cost savings across the function
•Partner cross-functionally to resolve invoice and payment issues, ensuring a high standard of service to internal stakeholders
•Support the annual audit process, providing accurate documentation and timely responses to audit requirements
•Deliver half-yearly Payment Times Reporting calculations in line with regulatory requirements
•Leverage ERP systems, including Workday, to streamline AP workflows and improve accuracy across the function
What You Bring
•Minimum five years of accounts payable experience, including at least two years in a supervisory role
•Demonstrated experience leading process improvement initiatives within an accounts payable or broader finance function
•Proficiency with AP automation tools and ERP systems, with Workday experience highly regarded
•Strong working knowledge of accounts payable processes, procedures, and compliance requirements
•Experience operating within a medium to large, complex organisational structure
•Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
•Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and partner across departments
•Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities with attention to detail
•Comfortable working hybrid and aligned to AEST business hours to support cross-regional collaboration
About Appen
Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.
Skills Required
- Minimum five years of accounts payable experience, including at least two years in a supervisory role
- Demonstrated experience leading process improvement initiatives within accounts payable or broader finance
- Proficiency with AP automation tools and ERP systems
- Workday experience
- Strong working knowledge of accounts payable processes, procedures, and compliance requirements
- Experience operating within a medium to large, complex organisational structure
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with ability to influence and partner across departments
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities with attention to detail
- Comfortable working hybrid and aligned to AEST business hours
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The Company
What We Do
We help our clients enhance their best-in-class products and services around the world, including search engines, social media platforms, voice recognition systems, sentiment analysis, and eCommerce sites. All of that wouldn’t be possible without our team of more than 1 million flexible workers. The world of tech is moving fast, and we help our clients meet the ever-changing needs of their customers. We take pride in our diverse, international team and the flexible and full-time opportunities we offer.
