Manager, Accounts Payable & Process Excellence

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Accounts Payable function across all company locations, ensuring timely and accurate processing of invoices, payments, and expense reports.
• Supervise and develop a high-performing AP team, fostering a culture of accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and redesign AP workflows to leverage automation, robotic process automation (RPA), and emerging AI tools to eliminate manual effort and increase accuracy.
• Define, track, and report key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure team productivity, accuracy, and process efficiency; implement corrective action and training as needed.
• Partner closely with Treasury, Accounting, Procurement, and IT to ensure data integrity between systems, proper accruals, and alignment with working-capital objectives.
• Champion vendor management best practices, including standardized onboarding, payment terms governance, and proactive communication with suppliers.
• Manage daily cash disbursement processes and coordinate funding approvals with Treasury to optimize cash flow and payment timing.
• Maintain oversight of AP aging and accrued purchase reports, ensuring timely resolution of outstanding items.
• Lead process documentation and training initiatives across the organization to promote understanding of end-to-end payables processes.
• Collaborate with the D365 implementation team to design and optimize the procure-to-pay functionality and ensure successful adoption post-go-live.
• Oversee annual 1099 reporting and compliance with federal and state regulations.
• Support internal and external audits through documentation, testing, and control validation.
• Identify and implement opportunities for digital transformation that improve accuracy, transparency, and scalability within AP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or Business Administration required.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive AP experience, including at least 3 years in a management role.
• Proven experience managing AP in a multi-entity or multi-location environment.
• Demonstrated success leading automation or technology-enabled process improvement initiatives; experience with AI tools or RPA preferred.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, internal controls, and month-end close processes.
• ERP experience required; Microsoft D365 or comparable system strongly preferred.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and change-management skills.
• Customer-oriented mindset with the ability to influence and train others across functions.

Competencies

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