Senior Accounts Payable Audit Manager

We’re looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Recovery Audit professional to lead supplier statement audit and recovery programmes across large, complex client environments.

This is a specialist role suited to someone already working in recovery audit, supplier statement audit, or AP audit
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Direct experience in:

• Accounts Payable recovery audit
• AP reconciliation in high-volume environments

Hands on experience in:

• Missed credits and unapplied cash
• Duplicate payment and over payment recovery

Background in recovery audit firms or similar environments highly preferred.

• Work on dedicated recovery audit engagements
• High‑impact role focused on real financial recoveries
• Opportunity to lead client relationships and delivery
• Flexible UK/US‑based working

Flex Tecs is a place where people can make a real impact. We partner with global organizations to solve complex financial and operational challenges, and our teams are trusted to take ownership, think critically, and deliver meaningful results. It’s a collaborative, supportive environment where expertise is valued, ideas are welcomed, and people have the opportunity to grow across different clients, industries, and roles.

Whether you’re early in your career or bringing deep experience, Flex Tecs offers the chance to do work that matters and see the tangible value you create.

The Senior Accounts Payable Audit Manager is a key delivery and client‑facing role responsible for leading end‑to‑end Accounts Payable recovery audit activities, with a primary focus on supplier statement reviews, missed credit identification, and payment error recovery.

This role owns the full lifecycle of supplier statement audit engagements, from planning and execution through to recovery, while acting as a trusted partner to clients and suppliers. The position also carries responsibility for managing offshore audit support teams, ensuring quality, pace, and consistency of outputs, and supporting the resolution and recovery of identified over payments and payment errors.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical AP audit expertise with excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to drive recoveries in complex, high‑volume environments.

• Lead end‑to‑end supplier statement review programmes, including statement collection, reconciliation and investigation of variances.
• Implement and manage processes to drive maximum supplier response rates.
• Identify and validate open statement credits.
• Manage supplier correspondence and follow‑up to resolve discrepancies and agree recoveries.
• Manage payment error claims including duplicate payments, over payments, and incorrect vendor payments.
• Validate claims in line with agreed audit methodologies and client requirements.
• Support the negotiation, agreement and recovery of claims with suppliers.
• Track claim status, recovery progress and ageing, escalating issues where required.
• Act as a primary point of contact for clients on assigned engagements.
• Provide clear, professional communication on audit progress, findings and recoveries.
• Liaise directly with suppliers to resolve exceptions while maintaining constructive and professional relationships.
• Support client review meetings, recoveries updates and ad‑hoc queries.

• Coordinate leadership, training and development of offshore delivery team.
• Allocate workload, set priorities and monitor progress against timelines.
• Perform quality review of offshore outputs, ensuring accuracy and consistency with audit standards.

• Maintain complete audit documentation, working papers and recovery trackers.
• Prepare and review client reporting, including recovery summaries, status reports and dashboards.
• Ensure recoveries are accurately reflected in audit records and reconciled to client systems where required.
• Identify recurring issues, trends and root causes to support continuous improvement discussions with clients.

• Identify opportunities to improve audit efficiency, supplier response rates and recovery outcomes.
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