Accounts Payable Team Lead

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Accounts Payable Team Lead

Location: Bangalore, India

Working Model: Fulltime, Hybrid

Req ID: 56743

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Role Purpose

Lead a multi-country accounts payable workstream with strong operational, control, and tax awareness. The role owns AP service quality from invoice intake through payment and reconciliation, resolves complex exceptions, oversees payment-run readiness, guides the team, partners with Tax, Treasury, and Procurement, and drives standardization and automation across legal entities and currencies.

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Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day AP delivery for assigned countries, legal entities, currencies, and payment calendars, balancing close, payment, and service priorities.
• Review complex PO/non-PO invoices, credit notes, prepayments, recurring invoices, intercompany charges, and cross-border transactions.
• Oversee invoice matching, approvals, coding, tax treatment, and posting quality; define clear exception-routing and ageing practices.
• Review payment proposals and supporting controls before authorized approval, including due-date logic, cash/credit optimization, duplicate checks, holds, credits, bank-data validation, and payment-method requirements.
• Coordinate with Treasury on funding, currency, payment cut-offs, rejected payments, and bank/platform issues while preserving segregation of duties.
• Maintain country requirement matrices covering invoice validity, VAT/GST, withholding tax/TDS, reverse charge, and required documentation.
• Identify tax and regulatory risk in cross-border payments and ensure appropriate review of withholding, treaty documentation, gross-up clauses, import-of-service, or reporting requirements.
• Own AP close quality, including AP-to-GL reconciliations, supplier statement reconciliation governance, cut-off, accrual inputs, aged liabilities, advances, and debit balances.
• Resolve escalated supplier disputes, high-value or aged invoice issues, payment failures, and sensitive internal queries.
• Design and maintain SOPs, approval matrices, desk procedures, evidence standards, and business-continuity arrangements.
• Lead workflow, OCR, e-invoicing, supplier portal, and payment automation requirements, testing, and adoption.
• Support internal and external audits, testing, and remediation.
• Coach AP team, review complex work, allocate workload, and support cross-training across entities and activities.
• Partner with Procurement and business owners to improve PO compliance, receipt discipline, vendor terms, and supplier experience.
• Own operational compliance with delegated authority, segregation of duties, vendor-master controls, payment approvals, and evidence retention.
• Ensure supplier bank-detail changes are independently validated and not approved solely on email instructions.
• Require Tax or local Finance approval where a transaction falls outside approved VAT/GST or WHT/TDS matrices.
• Monitor access, override, and manual-journal activity related to AP and pursue timely remediation of control gaps.
• Own and oversee global travel and expense reimbursement operations, ensuring compliance with company policy, delegated authority, and local statutory requirements.
• Review and approve complex or escalated expense claims, employee advances, corporate card reconciliations, and exception cases.
• Monitor reimbursement turnaround times, policy compliance, aged advances, and outstanding employee balances, driving timely resolution of issues.
• Partner with Payroll, Tax, and business stakeholders to ensure appropriate treatment of taxable benefits, per diem rules, mileage claims, and country-specific travel requirements.
• Establish and maintain T&E policies, SOPs, approval matrices, and audit-ready documentation standards across regions and legal entities.
• Lead optimization and automation initiatives for expense management, corporate card administration, and expense reporting controls.

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Requirements

• Core Skills:

  • Accounts Payable
  • AP Reconciliations
  • VAT/GST
  • Withholding Tax/TDS
  • ERP
  • Invoice Workflow/OCR
  • Payment Platform
  • Excel/Data Analysis

• Secondary Skills:

  • Cross-border Invoicing
  • Payment Automation
  • Standardising SOPs
  • Implementing Automation
  • System Changes

• 5-7 years of progressive accounts payable/procure-to-pay experience, including multi-country, multi-entity, and multi-currency operations.

• Deep practical knowledge of invoice-to-pay controls, payment-run governance, AP reconciliations, period close, and supplier issue resolution.

• Strong working knowledge of VAT/GST and withholding-tax/TDS concepts and the judgement to distinguish routine application from matters requiring Tax advice.

• Demonstrated experience with cross-border invoicing and payments, beneficiary verification, foreign-currency settlement, and country documentation requirements.

• Prior experience reviewing work, coaching team members, coordinating workload, or leading an AP workstream.

• Bachelor’s degree in commerce, accounting, finance, or a related discipline; CA/CPA/ACCA/CMA or equivalent qualification is advantageous.

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We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional development opportunities
• Hybrid working model

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About the Company

Sapiens International Corporation N.V. is a global leader of AI-centric, SaaS-based insurance software, delivering hyper-relevant experiences that are efficient, compliant, and innovative. With agile intelligence, Sapiens’ solutions turn real-time data and human insight into precise action at every moment, across every risk. The Sapiens platform includes agentic workflows accelerating every capability across policy, underwriting, claims, reinsurance, decisioning, and finance and compliance. With more than 600 insurers in over 30 countries running on Sapiens, our deep industry expertise is the foundation of our long-term relationships, from initial implementation through to modernization and market transformation. Sapiens is headquartered in London, serving customers in property and casualty, life, reinsurance, specialty, and workers’ compensation from offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. For more information visit www.sapiens.com, or follow us on Linkedin.

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