Manager, Accounts Payable

The role

You will lead an Accounts Payable team of up to 10 professionals in Mauritius. You will own the end-to-end AP function across multiple entities and regions while ensuring strong financial controls.

What you will do

• Lead, coach and develop a team of up to 10 Accounts Payable professionals.
• Set objectives, manage performance, and support career development.
• Plan team capacity, coverage and workload allocation.
• Oversee end-to-end AP processes across multiple entities, regions and currencies.
• Ensure invoices, credit notes, employee expenses and supplier payments are processed accurately and on time.
• Manage AP queues and tickets to resolve queries within agreed SLAs.
• Oversee expense claims and corporate card activity in line with policy.
• Ensure supplier statement reconciliations are completed and reviewed.
• Ensure key AP controls are applied and maintained for audit and compliance.
• Partner with Global Financial Controllers to support month-end close and bank reconciliations.

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of Accounts Payable experience.
• At least 2 years of experience managing an AP or shared-services team.
• Experience leading teams across different levels of experience and capability.
• Experience supporting international entities, multiple currencies and geographically distributed stakeholders.
• Knowledge of invoice processing, payment runs, expenses, supplier reconciliations, AP ageing and month-end close.
• Strong control mindset.
• Ability to work consistently from 12:00 to 21:00 Mauritius time on the UK working calendar.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Experience with ZIP, Emburse, Workday Financials or comparable AP, expense or finance systems.
• Experience in a fast-growing technology, fintech, financial-services or shared-services environment.
• Experience supporting AP automation, system implementation, standardisation or process redesign.

About the company

Checkout.com is a fintech company that enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. They have 20 offices across six continents with London as their HQ.