Manager, Accounts Payable

Lineage, Inc. (NASDAQ: LINE) is the world’s largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT with a network of over 480 strategically located facilities totalling over 84 million square feet and approximately 3.0 billion cubic feet of capacity across countries in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Coupling end-to-end supply chain solutions and technology, Lineage partners with some of the world’s largest food and beverage producers, retailers, and distributors to help increase distribution efficiency, advance sustainability, minimize supply chain waste, and, most importantly, feed the world. Learn more at onelineage.com.

As part of our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of financial accounting and reporting, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Manager Accounts Payable to join our growing team.

Job Summary:

You will lead the Accounts Payable functions for Lineage Benelux and United Kingdom. The AP function for Benelux is spread between Rotterdam and Vlissingen offices; the UK team is based in Manchester.

There is an opportunity to work from home for one or two days a week. When you are in the office you will mostly work from our Heywood office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure all supplier invoices are processed in the financial system in a timely and correct manner

• All bank transactions are processed timely and accurately in the financial system

• Execution of all outgoing payments including periodic payments to suppliers and authorities

• Maintain high quality of Vendor Master Data

• Intercompany reconciliation of AP positions with counter parts

• Develop clear set of KPI’s supporting key objective timely payment of suppliers (Drive continuous improvement)

• Pro-actively managing the role to accounting (expense category rationalization in order to standardize use expense category for similar activities)

• Pro-actively supporting the EMEA procurement team in the P2P process (implementation PO’s)

• Rolling out AppZen in EMEA region

• Create playbook which allows us to add new volume to the AP department timely and in a controlled way (existing sub regions and new acquisitions)

• Experience with integrating AP activities in P2P process

• Experience with optimization projects in AP

• Minimum of four (4) years of experience in P2P processes and Accounts Payable

• Natural ability to work collaboratively in an international and multi-cultural environment

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation

• The ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment experiencing rapid growth and change

• Strong attention to detail

• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbally. Dutch would be a plus

What’s in it for me:

• Bonus (depending on company performance)

• Laptop and mobile phone

• Pension

Why Lineage?

This is an excellent position to start your career within Lineage! Success in this role contributes to more responsibilities, as well as promotions in the future!

A career at Lineage begins with learning our business and how each team member plays an important role and contributes to the satisfaction of our customers. Additionally, you contribute to the growth of our organization and helping to achieve our goal, namely becoming the best employer in our industry.

We are always interested in your opinion. Development and engagement are important to us within Lineage.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. At Lineage we also recognise that Ex-Military, veterans, and military families have great experience with transferable skills and core values that can add significant value to our organisation.

Lineage offers a dynamic and safe work environment, excellent employment conditions and various opportunities for advancement.

Job Reference: INDUK

Why Lineage?

We are a global company with more than 22,000 employees spanning 20 countries and more than 400 locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America.

At Lineage Logistics, we have a shared purpose; we are transforming the food supply chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world. This means working at Lineage is not just a job – it’s an opportunity to innovate and put your mark on how food moves from the farm to dinner tables around the world. As a member of our team, you will be a critical link in the food supply chain.

Our shared purpose drives everything we do in all parts of our organisation, from the warehouse floor to the office. Our team members are passionate about the impact they make every single day.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. At Lineage we also recognise that Ex-Military, veterans, and military families have great experience with transferable skills and core values that can add significant value to our organisation.

Benefits

As a Lineage team member, we aim to provide everything you and your family need to thrive. That’s why we offer competitive rates of pay, paid time off, skills training, and development opportunities to grow a long and fulfilling career with us – plus generous financial rewards when you successfully refer new employees. This is enhanced by recognition schemes (so that your hard work won’t go unnoticed), plus the chance to make your salary go even further with our cycle-to-work scheme and preferential rates for loans and savings courtesy of a leading credit union.

Your everyday wellbeing is also important to us, so we will provide you with all the protective equipment you need to be safe and comfortable at work, and you will have access to a free 24/7 employee assistance phone line, which offers confidential counselling and advice. With all of this offered against the backdrop of a fun and social environment in which you will be supported by a team who enjoy helping each other in achieving their goals, we are confident you will excel with us.