Accounts Payable Manager

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Accounts Payable Manager to join our Finance team and oversee day-to-day accounts payable operations. This role is responsible for leading a team of AP professionals, ensuring payments are processed accurately and efficiently, maintaining established controls and procedures, and supporting compliance and audit requirements. This position is ideal for a hands-on leader who enjoys developing team members, improving processes, and partnering cross-functionally to support business operations while maintaining appropriate financial controls.

What You'll Do

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and coach the accounts payable team, setting service standards and managing to them.
• Assign and balance workload across the team, monitor performance, and provide constructive feedback.
• Ensure team members are trained and equipped to perform their duties effectively as volume and complexity grow.

Accounts Payable Operations

• Oversee the end-to-end accounts payable cycle across multiple entities and currencies, including invoice intake, coding, approval routing, payment runs, and vendor query resolution.
• Ensure disbursements are accurate, appropriately approved, and executed on schedule.
• Resolve complex invoice, purchase order, and receipt discrepancies, and act as the escalation point for vendor issues.
• Oversee the accounts payable inbox, ensuring that the team is providing timely response to internal and external inquiries.
• Administer corporate card and employee expense policy, enforcement and review

Compliance Program

• Oversee the vendor master record, including onboarding, validation, banking detail verification, and ongoing governance.
• Execute and maintain established payment fraud controls, including duplicate payment detection, change-of-bank-detail verification, and segregation of duties over payment release.
• Coordinate and administer tax information reporting obligations across jurisdictions, including T4A and 1099 reporting and cross-border withholding.
• Maintain documented accounts payable policies and procedures, and ensure control evidence is retained to audit standard.

Close and Reporting

• Deliver accounts payable close activities, including accruals, accounts payable aging analysis, and supporting reconciliations.
• Report to management on key accounts payable metrics, including cycle time, aging, and discount capture.
• Partner with external auditors on accounts payable and disbursement testing, providing narrative support and timely evidence.

Operational Excellence

• Identify and implement process improvements that reduce manual touches and shorten invoice cycle time as volume scales.
• Support system implementations and enhancements related to ERP, accounts payable automation, and workflow tools.
• Partner cross-functionally with Procurement, Legal, IT, and the business to streamline purchasing and approval workflows.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of progressive accounts payable experience, including at least 2 years leading a team
• Demonstrated experience managing accounts payable operations in a multi-entity and/or multi-currency environment
• Strong understanding of accounts payable controls, vendor management practices, and compliance requirements
• Demonstrated experience operating within a controlled close environment, with a clear understanding of documentation standards, review requirements, and audit evidence
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large, detailed datasets in support of reconciliations and audit requests
• High degree of ownership, attention to detail, and judgment required to operate effectively in a high growth, scaling technology environment
• Proven ability to partner cross-functionally while maintaining strong accounting governance and control discipline