P2P Manager

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role: The P2P Manager leads a team that oversees regional invoice processing activities and all aspects of invoice management and payments in the Elanco Solutions Center (ESC) .

The person will manage an internal teams; partner with business counterparts and external vendors; drive process governance; and ensure compliance with applicable regulation and controls for the invoice management function.

Your Responsibilities:

Leadership


* Be able to take charge of, inspire and influence a team of 10-25 employees 


* Actively connect with people and champion employee engagement 


* Develop top talent by participating in the succession planning process having robust performance /coaching conversations , and facilitating development interventions


* Work as part of the ESC management team to make the ESC a great place to work for all employees.

Process, Governance, Stakeholder Management


* Manage invoice processing and payment teams in an effective and efficient manner to ensure compliance with relevant policies, procedures, systems, and financial controls


* Ensure process governance including regular reporting and analysis to key stakeholders – communicates with stakeholders on a regular basis to discuss operational issues, key metrics


* Act as the point of escalation to resolve invoice processing, posting, payment and issues in a timely manner and ensures all queries are dealt with correctly and efficiently


* Support General Accounting’s month-end/year-end closing procedures including general ledger reconciliations and accruals, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance and financial audits


* Oversee the preparation of management reports and reconciliation tasks associated with accounts payable, invoice processing, payments


* Establish strong collaboration and relationships with business counterparts, vendors, Global Process Owners (GPO), and other partners of the ESC organization


* Identify and implement process change improvements (in coordination with the P2P GPO)


* Ensure processes and pol...