Associate Director/ Senior Manager, Purchase to Pay (PTP)

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Service Delivery

• Lead and supervise the PTP team in delivering day-to-day finance transactions, ensuring service quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Manage team leads and indirect reports, providing coaching, guidance, and career development support.
• Ensure services are delivered in line with agreed SLAs, OLAs, KPIs, internal controls, and budgetary guidelines.
• Act as the escalation point for operational issues, month-end close challenges, and critical transaction matters.
• Ensure balanced workload allocation, backup planning, and business continuity within the team.

Operational Excellence

• Oversee end-to-end PTP processes, including payables, settlements, reconciliations, expense claims, and related accounting activities.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, SOPs, legal requirements, accounting standards, and audit expectations.
• Review reports, reconciliations, rejection cases, supporting documents, and outstanding issues to ensure accuracy and proper resolution.
• Monitor urgent requests, team productivity, error trends, and KPI performance, while identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Support timely month-end and year-end closing in coordination with GSC, HQ, and business units.

Process Improvement & Transformation

• Drive continuous improvement, automation, standardization, and operational efficiency initiatives across PTP.
• Lead or support transitions, integrations, new acquisitions, and transformation projects related to PTP and other finance modules.
• Serve as the key point of contact for ERP-related matters for the team and support system/process enhancements.
• Oversee UAT activities, including review of test scripts and results, to ensure project execution is timely and accurate.
• Perform root cause analysis on issues and implement sustainable corrective actions.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with HQ, business units, vendors, banks, auditors, and internal support teams.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with OTC, RTR, GIR, CM, IT, HR/payroll, procurement, and local finance teams to ensure smooth end-to-end processes.
• Promote a strong customer service culture and attend to stakeholder enquiries professionally.
• Support financial reporting requirements, including analysis, commentary, and internal reporting deliverables.

People & Performance Management

• Set team goals and performance expectations aligned with GSC Finance and business priorities.
• Monitor and evaluate team performance, productivity, and development needs.
• Oversee onboarding, knowledge transfer, training, and upskilling of team members.
• Partner with HR in recruitment and workforce planning for the PTP team.
• Develop contingency plans to manage attrition, absence, and workflow spikes.

Qualification & Requirements

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Accounting/Auditing
• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent.
• Professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, or CIMA is an added advantage.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant working experience, with at least 5 years in a supervisory or managerial role, preferably within a global shared service environment.
• Strong exposure to PTP operations, intercompany activities, month-end closing, financial reporting, and internal controls.
• Experience in Dynamics 365, ERP systems, and finance transformation initiatives is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, US GAAP, and relevant local accounting standards.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and good working knowledge of PowerPoint.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, and presentation skills.
• Fluency in written and spoken English; Cantonese is an added advantage.
• Proactive, agile, resilient, detail-oriented, and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking and operational leadership
• Customer focus and stakeholder management
• Talent development and team leadership
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Continuous improvement mindset
• High accountability, adaptability, and emotional intelligence

Benefits

No information available.