Accounts Payable Manager

About the Role

We are seeking a Manager, Accounts Payable to lead Accounts Payable and Expense operations. This role will manage individual contributors and may oversee team leads while ensuring invoices, payments, reconciliations, tax reporting, and employee expenses are processed accurately and on time.

The Manager, Accounts Payable will own team performance and execution while driving process improvements, automation, and reporting. You will work across Procurement, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Finance, and other teams to resolve complex issues, strengthen controls, and improve the procure-to-pay experience.

The ideal candidate is a reliable people leader who uses business context and data to make decisions, advises stakeholders, and delivers measurable operational improvements.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop AP and Expense team members.
• Manage team performance, staffing, workload allocation, and day-to-day execution.
• Build a high-performing team with clear expectations, strong accountability, and consistent results.
• Oversee invoice processing, purchase order matching, coding, approvals, payments, vendor inquiries, and employee expense operations.
• Ensure AP and Expense activities are completed accurately, on time, and in accordance with company policies and controls.
• Own balance sheet reconciliations, AP close activities, accrual support, aging reviews, and related reporting.
• Lead annual 1099 reporting and support other AP-related tax and compliance requirements.
• Serve as the primary AP contact for internal and external audits, ensuring requested documentation is accurate and complete.
• Monitor unmatched invoices, open purchase orders, payment exceptions, duplicate payments, credits, and other outstanding items.
• Identify inefficiencies across AP and Expenses and lead process improvements that increase accuracy, efficiency, and scalability;
• Drive automation and AI initiatives related to invoice processing, matching, approvals, reconciliations, exception handling, and reporting.
• Develop reporting and insights using tools such as Zip, Ramp, Tableau, ERP systems, and other operational data sources.
• Establish and monitor performance metrics, including processing volume, aging, cycle times, exception rates, and on-time payments.
• Partner across Procurement, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Finance, and business teams and lead cross-functional initiatives when needed.
• Evaluate complex issues using business context, advise team members and stakeholders, and recommend practical solutions.
• Escalate risks and issues that could affect costs, controls, service levels, or short-term business goals.

What You’ll Bring