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Accounts Payable First Line Leader

IBM

IBM

Accounting & Finance
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Posted on Apr 29, 2025
Introduction
  • Lead the team executing the day to day operations of various IBM’s Accounts Payable functions including invoice and payment management, support of tax determination, resolving inquiries from stakeholders.
Your role and responsibilities
  • Lead the E2E S2P/ Accounts Payable Operational regional teams
  • Perform execution of global Accounts Payable strategy (e.g. invoice scanning, data registration, error resolution, internal controlling tasks, payments, tax related support)
  • Ensure meeting the AP measurement targets
  • 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 transformation, enhancement initiatives
  • Maintaining good working relationships with all parties
  • Practice the culture of helpfulness
  • Provide assistance to management in ad hoc projects

Leaders are expected to spend time with their teams and clients and therefore are generally expected to be in the workplace a minimum of three days a week, subject to business needs

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Procurement or Accounts Payable Experienced Level Knowledge
  • English and Spanish Professional Language Proficiency
  • Effective communication with senior leaders and diverse group of stakeholders
  • Project management skills
  • Confident Microsoft Office skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Foster and apply Teamwork
  • Problem solving and visualization of problems and solutions
  • Ability to adapt and manage change effectively, holistic mindset
  • Ability to communicate, organize and work under own initiative
  • Good time management with ability to prioritize effectively
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Good time management with ability to prioritize effectively

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

The 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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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