Job Description

It's more than a job

As a finance professional at Kuehne+Nagel, your work includes managing budgets, strategic planning, and overseeing financial operations. You also help make ordinary and special moments possible for people around the world. Because your financial diligence allows your colleagues across the company to stay focused on the core of their work, whether it's getting vital healthcare products to those who need them or fresh fruit to children playing in the park. Finance work at Kuehne+Nagel, means more than we imagine.

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Join our Finance team as an Accounts Payable Team Leader, leading an assigned team and ensuring the accurate and timely execution of Accounts Payable processes. You will coordinate payment activities, support critical supplier matters, and drive continuous improvements to increase process efficiency and service quality.

How you create impact

• Lead the Accounts Payable team: Coordinate the assigned team, support day-to-day operations, resolve issues, and contribute to the onboarding and development of team members.
• Coordinate payment execution: Estimate and monitor cash outflows, coordinate payment schedules with Treasury, and ensure suppliers are properly included in payment plans.
• Manage supplier accounts and critical issues: Ensure supplier accounts are reconciled, follow up on outstanding and aged items, and help prevent service or credit disruptions caused by overdue accounts.
• Drive process improvement and operational excellence: Identify and implement improvement plans that optimize AP processes while ensuring compliance with internal requirements and audit standards.
• Partner with stakeholders: Maintain effective communication with internal and external customers, support business units across participating countries, and participate in critical meetings to facilitate problem resolution.

What we would like you to bring

• Professional degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in Accounts Payable / financial processes, including knowledge of accounting and treasury activities.
• Experience leading teams, with the ability to coordinate priorities, support team members, and handle critical situations.
• Knowledge of supplier account reconciliations, banking platforms, Excel, and financial reporting.
• Intermediate-high English (B2+), with strong written and verbal communication skills. Experience in a Shared Services Center or Knowledge Center is desirable

What's in it for you

• Lead a team in a global Finance and Knowledge Center environment, developing your leadership skills while managing critical Accounts Payable operations.
• Gain international exposure by supporting financial operations across multiple countries and business units.
• Drive process optimization and continuous improvement, with the opportunity to make a tangible impact on operational efficiency.
• Build strong stakeholder management and business partnership skills while working with internal and external customers on critical financial matters.
• Be part of an international environment focused on service excellence, collaboration, and operational efficiency, within a global logistics organization.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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