Driven to create unique home-grown food concepts that bring people together, the Independent Food Company is a UAE-based hospitality company with multiple concepts under its umbrella – SALT, Parker’s, Somewhere, Public, Soil, Shalwa and Kumo.

We are presently seeking to hire a highly qualified Head of Accounts Payable to establish and stand up Accounts Payable as a controlled, scalable function across all brands and entities, owning the full Procure-to-Pay cycle. The role exists to remove the single biggest source of key‑person risk, manual processing, and control exposure in the back office: ~3,000 supplier invoices a month processed by hand, no digital approval workflow, no enforced 3‑way match, an uncleaned vendor master, and approvals bottlenecked through one inbox. The first six months are about getting control, automating the grind, and building a clean, auditable P2P engine — before the function merges into the Finance CoE in Phase 2.