Team Lead Accounts Payable

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

adidas Global Business Services (GBS) is the engine to drive the transformation to ONE adidas. It is the company's operational backbone, through delivering standard global services, focusing on enhancing customer user experience, and providing consistent skills and quality.

It delivers high quality services in the areas of Order to Cash (O2C), Source to Pay (S2P), Record to Report (R2R), Controlling & Reporting and HR Services for adidas companies and subsidiaries located in Europe, North America and Latin America.

We are looking to fill this role with a candidate that enables day-to-day purchases, including Purchase Requisitions Management, user guidance and vendor selection in line with category strategy for free-text requests, Purchase Order (PO) Management and Vendor Contact on a Accounts Payable perspective.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure team’s management including coaching, training,hiring, motivation and performance appraisal guidance;
• Supervise the daily operations by adhering to the agreed SLAs towards the business partners;
• Ensure good relationships with business partners and the global functional Team on a proactive basis;
• Act as the main point of escalation for suppliers and internal stakeholders, ensuring timely resolution of issues.
• Develop and report relevant KPI’s for area of responsibility;
• Support D2PO and PO2PAY  system implementations and updgrades
• Ensure that KPI’s are maintained, achieved and reported in a correct and timely manner.
• Monitor cleanance and completion of activites such as bank interim accounts and Debit Balance, resolving non-payment issues and ensuring balances are accurate.
• Perform regular controls and cross-checks to ensure accuracy.
• Prepare and execute complementary financial reports (VAT, Tax, Supplier Debit Balance, Aging Report).
• Generate ideas for process improvements with respect to the processes in scope and ensure high quality and efficient work.
• Perform problem-solving, propose and assess solutions, and drive their implementation.
• Manage change effectively, ensuring smooth adoption of people, new systems and processes.
• Ensure proper documentation of processes and maintain updated DTPs to support audits and compliance.

Key Relationships:

• Internal GBS Porto:

Within GBS.NTP this person will be reporting towards the Procurement Operations Manager;

Close collaboration with Tactical Buying teams, Local Accounting Teams, Supplier lifecycle teams etc

• External GBS Porto:

Close collaboration with Local NTP teams based in Europe, and Suppliers

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Solid experience with SAP and Ariba
• Strong understanding of Procurement and Accounts Payable processes, including invoice posting and reconciliation, PO management, and vendor communication
• Experience in a Shared Service environment or similar
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business setting
• Ability to pay close attention to detail and high degree of customer orientation
• Solid interpersonal skills combined with a high degree of customer orientation; can navigate easily within complex organizations, connect with a variety functions, audiences, management styles, or cultures.