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Business Manager - Accountancy & Finance @ Eden Scott | Hiring the best Finance talent for the top industries across Scotland!

Senior Accounts Payable Manager (Transformation)

12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Global Organisation

Hybrid Working

Competitive base salary + benefits

Eden Scott is delighted to be supporting a high-growth multinational group in their search for a Senior Accounts Payable Manager. This strategic 12-month contract offers an exciting opportunity to lead transformation across a global finance operation. Based within either their Glasgow or Edinburgh Head offices on a hybrid working model.

The Opportunity

As the Accounts Payable lead, you’ll guide the team through a period of change - enhancing processes, strengthening controls, and building the data infrastructure that powers spend visibility and decision-making across the business. You’ll collaborate with Procurement, FP&A, and Financial Reporting to embed best practices across the P2P cycle, ensuring scalability, accuracy, and transparency.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, brings structure to ambiguity, and leads with a continuous improvement mindset.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build high-quality spend data using Workday and other tools
• Deliver actionable insights on supplier performance, spend trends, and process efficiency
• Empower budget holders with transparent, evidence-based reporting

Process Transformation

• Overhaul AP operations to drive consistency, timeliness, and world-class KPIs
• Design scalable templates and reporting frameworks
• Ensure accruals are accurate, predictable, and embedded in planning cycles
• Strengthen end-to-end P2P processes through cross-functional collaboration
• Align AP with procurement and financial systems goals
• Support automation and compliance improvements
• Lead and develop the AP team through change
• Promote best practices in automation, coding, and standardisation
• Maintain robust financial controls and audit readiness

What You’ll Bring:

• Strong experience within in AP leadership, ideally within a global or shared services environment
• It is essential that the successful candidate holds strong experience in both management and leading process improvement/change
• Strong experience managing accruals and financial reporting cycles
• Proven track record in P2P process improvement
• Proficiency in ERP systems (Workday preferred) and reporting tools
• Collaborative, proactive, and solutions-driven approach
• Ability to lead through change and bring clarity to complex operations

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of AP in a forward-thinking, insights-led organisation. If you're ready to make a strategic impact and lead transformation at scale, we’d love to hear from you.

For more information, please get in touch with Emma Shahnavaz at Eden Scott for a confidential discussion.

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