Pay It Forward Podcast Accounts Payable Association

In today's episode, Jamie sat down with Rachael Long, the Accounts Payable Manager at Breedon Group. Breedon Group a leading construction materials group in the UK and is a major producer of bulk and bagged cement. 
Rachael is the manager of a 15 person accounts payable team, so Jamie wanted to find out more about her thoughts on mentoring and leadership within her role as well as the mentoring program Breedon Group has in place and why it's so successful. 
“I always try and lead by example”
“It’s being the best I can be to show the team they can be the best they can be”

In this episode of AP Talks, Jamie is joined by Julia Stovold, Documation’s Marketing manager for an in-depth discussion on how automation continues to change the AP department. 
Documation’s family of consultants, developers, account managers and support team are experts in the field of document management and business process automation. 
“But where does that leave the AP/P2P teams? The team are going to undergo a ‘role rethink’ and not everyone is going to be happy about it!”
Julia also explores the 6 Key elements of The Fears of Change: Denial, Anger, Fear, Insecurity, Sense of Loss and Loss of Identity
“Automation will change the landscape of the AP / P2P teams, there will always be people who are change resistors and may never get on board, but to balance this there will be passionate advocates of the change too”

Jon Stovold returns to AP Talks to give us some insight on a new topic, Digital Transformation.
John Stovold is the Marketing Manager for Itesoft and is constantly exploring all the new developments in the finance industry.
“The concept of digital transformation is to take the human element out and replacing it with a machine to deliver more benefit at a lower cost”
“The more data you can get and the higher quality you can get it, the more impact this has later down the line”

With 20 years of finance recruitment experience, Karen has a track record of recruiting top finance talent for businesses across a range of industry sectors and is a trusted industry voice on career planning and market insights. 
In this podcast, Karen, Gareth and Jamie discuss what makes a good leader and the importance of mentoring for your employees' growth. 
“You might listen to this and think you have never mentored someone but I bet 9/10 of you have as you have given someone encouragement and empowerment”
“To be mentored is just reaching out to somebody in a very human way to ask for help”

In this podcast, John Wallace - CEO of Documation & Jamie discuss how invoicing has changed through the years.
 
John Wallace is the CEO of Documation and is a widely recognised thought-leader in the field of finance process automation and transformation, with a particular focus on AP. 
 
In this in-depth episode, John puts all the confusion regarding e-invoicing to rest, clarifying what exactly e-invoicing is, where it starts and where it ends and the formatting issues some have experienced.
 
Quotes
“80-90% of all invoices received are on email."
‘’With a true E-invoice, what we’re doing is essentially transferring data rather than a document directly from the supplier to the buyer.‘’
‘’We understand the landscape and we can help people understand what’s out there and see what’s fit for purpose from the particular view of their business.’’
"Governments around the World are using e-invoicing to close the tax loophole."

In this second part podcast, John & Jamie talk over the how technology & automation are impacting Accounts Payable teams looking at how different generations are being impacted.
 
Quotes
 
“How do managers prepare for cultural change”
 
“Who remembers the days of dial up internet? Individuals need access now at the click of a button”
 
“Accounts Payable teams are the backbone of an organisation, if you want to learn about everything that goes on in a company work in the AP team”