Assistant Manager Accounts Payable

Assistant Manager – Accounts Payable

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Role Overview

The Assistant Manager – Accounts Payable will support the Accounts Payable function across a diverse and multi-entity environment, ensuring accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices, payments and reconciliations while maintaining strong financial controls and governance.

The role will work closely with Finance, Procurement, Operations and other internal stakeholders across different businesses and projects, and requires a high level of accuracy, discretion and stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee the end-to-end Accounts Payable process, from invoice receipt and verification through approval, posting and payment.
• Review supplier invoices to ensure appropriate supporting documentation, approvals and accounting treatment.
• Coordinate and review payment runs, ensuring payments are processed accurately, securely and within agreed timelines.
• Manage supplier statement reconciliations and investigate and resolve outstanding or disputed items.
• Monitor AP ageing, outstanding liabilities and overdue payments, providing regular reporting to Finance management.
• Support Accounts Payable activities across multiple entities, projects and business units as required.
• Review expense allocations, cost centre coding and account classifications to ensure transactions are recorded accurately.
• Work closely with Procurement and business stakeholders to resolve purchase order, invoice and payment-related issues.
• Maintain appropriate controls over vendor onboarding, supplier master data and changes to banking information.
• Support intercompany reconciliations and transactions where applicable.
• Support month-end and year-end closing activities, including AP reconciliations, accruals, provisions and balance sheet schedules.
• Ensure invoices and transactions comply with applicable UAE VAT requirements and internal financial policies.
• Prepare AP reports, reconciliations, ageing analysis and other management information.
• Support internal and external audits and respond to audit queries and documentation requirements.
• Ensure compliance with delegation of authority, approval matrices and established financial controls.
• Identify opportunities to improve AP processes, controls, automation and reporting.
• Review and support the work of junior Accounts Payable team members where required.
• Handle financial and supplier information with a high degree of confidentiality and discretion.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or a related discipline.
• Professional qualification such as ACCA, CMA, CA or equivalent would be advantageous.
• 8 years of relevant finance experience, with strong Accounts Payable experience.
• Prior experience within a family office, investment group, holding company, diversified group or multi-entity corporate environment would be advantageous.
• Strong understanding of Accounts Payable, supplier reconciliations, payment processing, accruals and month-end closing.
• Experience managing transactions across multiple legal entities or business units is preferred.
• Good working knowledge of UAE VAT requirements.
• Strong ERP/accounting-system experience, with exposure to SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics or similar platforms advantageous.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work with sensitive financial information.
• Strong communication, stakeholder-management and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-moving and highly confidential environment.