Senior Manager of Global Payments

Job description

**Purpose in Every Position** Pebl puts a world of talent at your fingertips. With our AI-powered Global Work Platform™, companies can hire, pay, and manage employees in 185+ countries—removing risk, red tape, and guesswork from global growth. Backed by more than a decade of compliance leadership and local expertise, Pebl helps businesses move fast, stay compliant, and scale with confidence. With Pebl, companies everywhere can hire great talent anywhere. **Where Your Work Moves the Needle.** At Pebl, every team member drives our success. Joining us means more than filling a role—you’re accountable for results and impact. Our values guide how we operate, execute, and collaborate across borders. By putting them into action, you’ll help us scale faster, compete harder, and lead the future of global work. **What Makes You a Great Fit** Pebl is looking for a Senior Manager of Global Payments to manage a team of accounts payable specialists to support global payment operations. Based in Bangalore, the role will be highly visible to the leadership team and have strategic as well as tactical and operational opportunities. This role requires a commercially minded, data-driven operator who can balance payment processing efficiency, fraud and risk mitigation and regulatory requirements while partnering closely with Payroll, Finance, Treasury and Product. The ideal candidate will bring executive presence, strong vendor management discipline, and the ability to coach and groom a high-performing team that delivers measurable improvements in payment performance within the first 12 months. As Pebl’s most senior payments operator, you are accountable for ensuring timely and accurate money movement and reconciliation. Along with Treasury, Procurement and Finance, you will be a part of leadership cohorts that will design and build Pebl’s global payments strategy. **How You'll Make An Impact:** - Own the full payments lifecycle - Provide strategic direction and oversight to the global accounts payable function, including invoice automation processing, vendor master data, vendor on-boarding, payment execution and intercompany settlements. - Maintain and ensure consistent application of AP policies and controls across subsidiaries. - Review Journal entries, Prepayment funding request and batch payments uploaded by the AP team - Manage daily AP mailboxes and monthly workflow of the team members, review weekly payment run including forecast of payables - Serve as a key partner in month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities, including reconciliations, and audit support. - Act as the business owner for payments performance and employees experience, partnering closely with Payroll, Accounting, Treasury and Product. - Drive a “customer” oriented payments journey, ensuring speed, reliability, and ease of use across all touchpoints. - Partner with Accounting and FP&A in driving cash forecast goals. - Hold internal business partners accountable to performance SLAs, cut off deadline, accuracy, speed and reliability over payment needs - Lead Payment Operations, identifying and resolving friction points across the end-to-end user journey - Drive operational improvements in exceptions, retries, reversals, and escalations **Let's Connect If You Have:** - Masters in Finance / Commerce BA/BS in Accounting/Finance or equivalent working experience required - 7-10 years of relevant experience in heading global payment operations, vendor management, and accounts payable. - Accounting experience is preferred, particularly in accounts payable, accrual and departmental cost center reporting. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, - Ability to work with a wider global team and across different time zones if required. - Technology-savvy, including Microsoft Suite, NetSuite and ZIP is desirable. - Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail, Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to prioritize and juggle with a variety of tasks - Assist in ME close by collaborating with GL, Treasury and the International Accounting team ensuring timely closure of books **Our Commitment to You** At Pebl, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include: - **Flexible Time Off** – Take the time you need to recharge. - **Parental Leave** – Support for growing families. - **Health and Dental Insurance** – Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones. - **Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan** – Plan for the future while sharing our success. Please visit our career page for [more information](https://hellopebl.com/company/careers/). **Pebl is an Equal Opportunity Employer.** We power global teams and believe diverse perspectives drive innovation and impact. Employment decisions at Pebl are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive and do the best work of their career—anywhere in the world.