Freelance Teamlead AP/AR at DLL (ZZP)

• Important that you meet all hard requirements and as best as possible.

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• Without a motivation letter your application will not be considered.

• Although we work with deadlines, it is possible that the project closes earlier. We advise you to respond as soon as possible.

Job description

In 2023, DLL introduced the central AP/AR team. This team performs all the AP/AR activities for countries that have migrated to Oracle Fusion. The team will consist of AP- and AR transaction specialists and AP/AR process specialists. The team will be responsible for the entire AP/AR process, with full ownership and responsibility of the AP and AR subledgers.

Currently, the Vendor entities for The Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal as well as the corporate centre entities are being serviced by the central AP/AR team. In 2025, other countries starting with Germany, Austria and Switzerland will implement Oracle Fusion. These members can work from their current office location but will be organizational part of the central AP/AR team and will work and support all countries throughout Europe that use Oracle Fusion. To accommodate this, we are looking for a team lead for the central AP/AR team.

Day to day:

• Leading central AP/AR team in the execution of the following processes:

o Procurement-to-payment

o Billing-to-collection

o Cash management and transaction matching

• Servicing:

o Corporate Centre

o Vendor entities that are using Oracle Fusion

o Other countries that go-live, starting with Germany, Austria and Switzerland

• With the team, taking responsibility for the end-to-end processes above and the entire subledgers AP/AR, including process monitoring, identification and remediation of exceptions, monitoring open items as well account reconciliations and month-end control procedures

• Monitoring of service levels (based on a SLA), following up on any deviations from the pre-defined standard service levels and monitoring the number of unprocessed requests, doing root cause analyses and implement process improvements

• Together with the European Finance team, work on implementing a standard way of working for the procure to pay, billing to collection and cash management and transaction matching processes for all countries working on Oracle

• Work with stakeholders like Group Procurement and the local Finance, Sales and Operations team on the quality of overall process, adherence to Service Level Agreements and the enforcement of the new standard ways of working

• Together with the European Finance team, work on the roll out of the future single European IT stack, which includes Alfa. Be part of the discussion on the design of future processes, ensuring further automation and standardization.

• Day to day management of the central AP/AR team and supporting the process specialists and transactional specialists in the central AP/AR team with their day-to-day questions.

Job requirements

• Effective leader, that delivers the SLA requirements

• Change leader, that will lead the AP/AR team (and DLL) towards the new standardized way of working

• Strong personality, that can speak up for the AP/AR team, standardization, quality and control

• Communication skills, ability to interact with the business, other finance departments and suppliers

• Global mindset, ability and willingness to work for various entities, seeing the bigger picture

• Ability to oversee end-to-end processes, and understand consequences of individual actions

• Ability to identify process weaknesses / optimization opportunities and address these

• Fluent in English and preferably one of the following languages: Dutch, German, French, Portuguese or Spanish