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Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

Purpose of the job:

Provide financial support to IBM's Accounts Payable organization and lead the operational Team.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Lead the E2E Accounts Payable Operational regional teams

• Perform execution of global Accounts Payable strategy ( e.g. invoice scanning, data registration, error resolution, internal controlling tasks, payments)

• Ensure keeping the AP measurement targets, especially the Paid on Time metric

• Ensure providing quantitative and qualitative work

• Learn, understand and keep the procedures, documentations, instructions and auditing / business controls guidelines

• Keep internal target dates

• Develop own and Team skills plus knowledge aligned to business strategy

• Sharing knowledge with team members& peers

• Participating / facilitating in diverse Agile ceremonies to discuss status of project activities, actions, tasks, blockers; providing input about completed and closed items

• Using team collaboration tools

• Work in an Agile environment

• Recommending process changes and contribute to the whole lifecycle of the projects

• Driving, owning and supporting process enhancement / modification initiatives

• Maintaining good working relationships with all parties

• Practise the culture of helpfulness

• Provide assistance to management in ad hoc projects.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Skills and qualities required:

• English language proficiency

• People leadership experience 3-5 years

• Good communication skills

• Confident Microsoft Office skills

• Analytical skills (Data Analytics, EPM usage)

• Foster and apply Teamwork

• Problem solving and visualisation of problems and solutions

• Project management skills

• Ability to adapt and manage change effectively

• Ability to communicate, organise and work under own initiative

• Good time management with ability to prioritise effectively.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Finance and Accounting knowledge and experience

• P2P knowledge and experience - 3-5 years

• Ariba, SAP, VIM Opentext workflow knowledge and experience

About Business UnitThe IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM's financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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