Philippines AP staffing guide
Maintain an AP entity routing table for shared services
Route invoices to the correct company queue using approved evidence and a clear path for ambiguous entities.
Direct answer
What this role should do
Build a source-linked shared-services entity routing table, make missing evidence visible, and send decisions to the entity accounting owner.
Put the shared-services entity routing table around a real queue
Start with the work as it arrives, not an idealized diagram. A supplier sends one invoice to a group mailbox with a trading name used by two legal entities. Write down the source systems, cutoff, company entity, and the person accountable for the queue.
Keep source address, invoice addressee, tax identifier, PO entity, supplier account, approved routing rule, selected queue, exception, and owner response. Leave blanks visible. A missing field is useful evidence; a guessed value is not.
Give the preparer a firm stopping point
An outsourced AP specialist can collect records, compare fields, update the queue, and ask for missing support. The entity accounting owner keeps policy interpretation, approval, accounting judgment, master-data authority, and payment authority.
Status labels should describe what happened: received, checked, waiting for evidence, with owner, decided, or closed. Record who moved the item and when.
Try the awkward cases before launch
A tidy example rarely finds a weak handoff. Use the scenario above and ask a second reviewer to reach the same conclusion from the retained record alone.
For acceptance, test clear entities, shared names, missing addressees, wrong inboxes, cross-entity POs, and corrected invoices. When reviewers disagree, fix the rule, example, or source access before adding more volume.
Common questions
Accounts payable virtual assistant FAQs
What can outsourced support do in this shared-services entity routing table?
Support can gather approved records, compare observable fields, update status, and route exceptions. The entity accounting owner retains decisions and authorization.
What proves the routine works?
Retain source address, invoice addressee, tax identifier, PO entity, supplier account, approved routing rule, selected queue, exception, and owner response, then test clear entities, shared names, missing addressees, wrong inboxes, cross-entity POs, and corrected invoices.
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