Description:
As an Accounts Payable Manager, you will play a key role in keeping LemFi’s financial operations running smoothly as we continue to scale globally. You’ll own the day-to-day AP function while also helping to strengthen processes, controls, and systems in a fast-growing environment.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll balance operational execution with people leadership — supporting a small AP team, partnering closely with Finance and Treasury, and ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance across all payables activity. As LemFi grows, you’ll help shape how AP operates, introducing improvements that support scale without slowing the business down.
How You’ll Contribute
Leadership & Team Management
- Supervision: Oversee the daily activities of three AP Specialists, ensuring balanced workloads and high accuracy.
- Mentorship: Provide ongoing training on ERP systems, accounting principles, and internal policies.
- Performance: Conduct regular 1-on-1s and annual performance reviews to foster professional growth
Operational Oversight
- Full-Cycle AP: Manage the end-to-end process from invoice entry and coding to payment execution (ACH, Wire, Check).
- Month-End Close: Lead the AP month-end process, including aging report reconciliations and accrual journal entries.
- Exception Handling: Act as the escalation point for complex billing discrepancies or sensitive vendor disputes
Compliance & Internal Controls
- Audit Support: Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external auditors regarding AP inquiries
- Tax Reporting: Manage invoice based Tax reporting relating to all countries of operation. Policy Enforcement:
- Ensure all expenditures align with company travel and expense (T&E) policies and DOA (Delegation of Authority) limits
Process Improvement & Strategy
- Automation: Identify opportunities to streamline invoice processing (e.g., implementing OCR or transitioning to paperless workflows).
- Cash Flow: Coordinate with the Treasury/Finance team to forecast weekly cash requirements for payables
Who You Are
- Highly organised, detail-focused, and comfortable managing multiple priorities
- Improvement-minded, always looking for more efficient ways of working
- Hands-on and proactive, happy to roll up your sleeves when needed
- A clear and confident communicator, able to handle queries and resolve issues calmly
- Comfortable working in a fast-growing environment where processes are still evolving
- Collaborative and supportive, working well with cross-functional teams
What You’ll Bring
- 3–5 years’ experience in Accounts Payable, with end-to-end process exposure
- Some experience supporting or supervising others
- Working knowledge of NetSuite
- Strong Excel skills (e.g. lookups, pivots, basic formulas)
- Experience supporting month-end close and reconciliations
- Confidence handling exceptions, discrepancies, and vendor queries