Manager, PTP (Accounts Payable)

Description

What will I be part of?

The Manager for PTP will work with the Senior Manager of PTP within Hilton’s UK Centre of Excellence. They will play a critical part in providing control oversight of Process to Pay activities and correct expenditure accounting within Hilton by driving the efficient operation of processing and paying over 930,00 transactions annually, covering a spend of almost $2.4b. Our Hilton Accounting and Finance Services function is growing, and the role holder will have accountability to ensure additional scope is embedded, standardized, and optimized as part of our Touchless AP Transformation vision.

Experience in Team Management of Process to Pay (AP) process (or other high-volume processing and accounting environments), optimized outsourced service provider partnering, data mining, data and process analysis as well as identifying and delivering structured scalable improvements are essential attributes in this role.

The post holder will be expected to develop a growing Center of Excellence Team, coach and collaborate with Team Members in the Shared Service and forge strong stakeholder relationships with Corporate and Hotel communities to ensure the PTP sub processes are managed and measured right first time. The post holder will identify areas to optimize delivery across the end-to-end process directing standardization and transformational opportunities across platforms, processes and control environments. The Manager will have direct reports of up to 7 FTEs and will be required to coach, direct and motivate the team to deliver accurate and up to date control of Center of Excellence activities as well as monitor and integrate Shared Service Team performance so that the end-to-end function of PTP operates amongst as a Top Quartile performing function.

Responsibility includes ensuring key and non-key Sarbanes Oxley Operational Excellence and audit requirements are adhered to for the PTP process. The role holder will drive accurate and efficient delivery of accounting treatment of business expenses from both supplier invoices and Travel and Entertainment Corporate Card purchases in line with country accounting and tax requirements. Critical to this role is oversight of accurate Vendor Master Data, correct accounting treatment of expenses and tax across multiple accounting platforms, maintaining the Payables ledgers and supplier statement controls.

What will I be doing?

Under the direction and guidance of the Senior Manager PTP UK, the post holder will be responsible for delivery and improvement of the PTP processes to ensure payment performance is optimized, financial controls are complied with, correct accounting treatment achieved, and performance metric targets are achieved, right first time.

The Manager will have responsibility for providing support, guidance, coaching and direction to the Center of Excellence Team. The role of the Manager is critical in ensuring each sub process activity managed in the center of Excellence and Shared Service Team meets the Touchless AP vision of the PTP Tower in delivering top quartile performance both in efficiency and effectiveness. The Manager will develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including Hilton Supply Management, suppliers, Corporate and Hotel management, and Operational Finance Teams to identify and deliver optimal operational delivery as well as identification of sustainable transforming improvement in their area of control. Improvement will be structured by following structured project management methodology, the post holder will have responsibility to identify improvements and replication opportunity across similar processes in PTP Tower to drive standardization across the regions.

The post holder will participate and play a part in engendering a sense of empowerment amongst the Center of Excellence Team in the pursuit of top quartile service, supporting the delivery of PTP strategic vision and the team activities on a day-to-day basis. This will require a meticulous attention to detail, the ability to understand and interpret business metrics within the Process to Pay tower, have sound understanding of systems used and ability to coach the team to data mine and analyze data and process to determine fact-based interventions and continuous improvement identification.

The post holder will be responsible for their area of sub process PTP performance and have control oversight of metric outcomes, this includes ensuring key and non-key Sarbanes Oxley controls within their sub process are 100% Operationally Effective and audit requirements are adhered to for the PTP process. The role holder will be strong in articulating the case for process improvement through Power BI or other reporting illustration and will also develop relevant performance Dashboards that track attainment towards Touchless AP. The role holder will develop and drive improvement interventions in collaboration with Shared Service Team Members to optimize performance, influenced by performance reporting trends. The post holder will delegate for the PTP Senior Manager required.

Key to the success of the role will be the ability to communicate and adapt to change as required. The post holder will possess the capacity to effectively contribute towards a strong customer-focused ethos while ensuring that a robust control environment is maintained.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

To fulfil this role successfully, you must possess the following minimum qualifications and experience: Attributes and qualifications: