Company Description

Let’s create a more sociable future together

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you

Job Description

- Love what you do and leave your mark
- Fixed term contract role of 24 months
- Location - Sydney/ Melbourne/ Adelaide / Hobart
- Hybrid ways of working

The Accounts Payable Manager (Retail) is the operational lead for the Group’s Related related Procure-to-Pay (P2P) cycle, responsible for ensuring that Endeavour Group’s retail invoices are paid accurately, on time and in full. This role is also the escalation point for critical vendor disputes, manages the GR/IR (Goods Received / Invoice Received) policy, COUPA procurement system for non trade procurement (including partnership invoices and credit card management), transition of suppliers to preferred electronic invoice methods and any other automation initiatives in the retail payable space.

This role is integral to enabling the transition and standing up of Retail payable processes in the offshore team and jointly enabling a successful implementation of a new SAP ERP. The Accounts Payable Manager is responsible for providing direction and oversight of the offshore retail payables team, and embraces opportunities to improve processes and and transition to a centralised payables team for the Group.

Sound good? Read on.





Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

Payables Processes & Offshore Governance

- Workflow Management: Oversight over the daily operations of the offshore processing team and agreed Payables related Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Process Integrity: Enforce strict adherence to the Delegation of Authority (DoA) and Group Procurement Policy. Ensure all non-PO invoices are coded correctly and routed to the appropriate business approver without delay.
- Exception Handling: Act as the primary escalation point for invoices processing, working with internal business stakeholders to resolve system or pricing discrepancies or receipting issues.
- Compliance: Ensure all payments comply with statutory requirements and internal financial controls

Vendor Management

- Vendor Partnership: Serve as the senior point of contact for critical suppliers, managing the resolution of complex disputes regarding short-payments, missed invoices, or credit notes to protect the supply chain relationship.
- Vendor Queries and Disputes: Oversight over Vendor queries, ensuring timely and accurate query resolution
- Payment Run Management: Ensure coordination and execution of the weekly supplier payment runs and liaise with Group’s Treasury team

System and Process Delivery, Improvement & Projects





- ERP System Delivery: Completion of new ERP testing, playing a key role with management of defects and required post go-live system enhancements
- Process Excellence: Driving, setting and delivering pre and post go-live ERP processes
- Transition Enablement: Onboarding, training and transition of knowledge and processes to current offshore processing team
- System Optimisation: Leverage systems to drive efficiencies, automating manual invoices and processes
- Process Simplification: Identify opportunities to streamline processes and implement best-practice standardisation.

Balance Sheet, Audit & Compliance

- GR/IR Stewardship: Oversee and ensure Goods Received / Invoice Received (GR/IR) is managed per Group policy
- Month-End Close: Lead the AP month-end close process, ensuring the sub-ledger balances reconcile to the General Ledger and delivering accurate accruals for un-invoiced liabilities.
- Reconciliations Excellence: Performing secondary review for select balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring robust controls, timely risk and issue identification and resolution, and engagement with business units
- Audit & Reporting periods: Seamless half-year and full-year deliverables and coordination and delivery of external auditor requests and requirements

Qualifications

Now let’s talk about you:

- 5+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Shared Services, or Global Business Services, with at least 3-5 years in a senior leadership role overseeing Payments, Treasury, or end-to-end O2C/P2P functions
- Experience in managing an offshore or outsourced shared service delivery model

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