As a part of the corporate/shared services team, you will have the ability to positively impact patient outcomes by supporting our employees as they provide exceptional patient care. Regardless of your position, you will play a vital role in ensuring that our employees have the support and tools they need.

• Sets the strategy and prioritization for continuous improvement projects for the AP team. Facilitates and coaches team through defining/measuring the problem, identifying and analyzing current state processes and metrics, and conducting detailed process analysis, implementation of improvements, and establishing control.
• Creates automation roadmap through gap analysis and benchmarking best practices, defining project plan required actions to achieve end state in partnership with IT.
• Manages and leads the accounts payable team in all daily accounts payable functions (issue checks, electronic payments, distribution activities, purchase orders, etc.).
• Ensures that invoice transactions are processed and paid timely and accurately while adequate procedures are maintained for the collection, filing and processing of accounts payable invoices, vendor records and payments while providing the highest level of customer service.
• Provide direct leadership to 2 Leaders with an extended team of 20-25 Analysts, Coordinators and Assistants. Manages the workload distribution for the team, flexing between teams to balance workload. Develop a talented, engaged, and well-trained, high performing team.
• Mentor staff in building a continuous improvement mindset by coaching and teaching leaders and employees how to spot process inefficiency, identify, and eliminate non-value added activity, scripting appropriate responses to teach peers and vendors to mistake proof the process to prevent rework or holds. Use data to identify process improvement opportunities and develop and maintain monitoring metrics to maintain control after the project is complete.
• Ownership of Accounts Payable related Corporate Policies and responsible for building and maintaining controls to ensure adherence to these. Monitors adherence to other corporate policies.
• Effectively lead large groups through projects related to improving AP processes or internal controls, business unit reporting, and finance processes.
• Directs the Accounts Payable team in coordination with internal and external auditors.
• Works as the liaison with both internal and external individuals and departments to resolve issues and enforce policies.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
Skills: High bias for action. Effective written and verbal communication skills. Ability to manage competing priorities and tasks. Ability to generate bold, creative ideas to improve performance. High proficiency in using MS Excel and other MS Office tools.
Experience: 10+ years of experience in accounting, financial analysis, operations management, or related fields. 3+ years experience in a finance management leadership role. Must have prior experience with ERP/system implementations, EDI, OCR, Imaging Systems, continuous improvement projects, project management tools, work measurement, staffing and productivity analysis, management report, scorecard design, 1099’s, year-end reporting and financial computations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Masters in Business Management, Accounting, Finance, or related field.
Skills: 3 years Infor or Lawson experience. ERP implementation experience.
Experience: 10+ years of supervisory/management experience. Large complex, national or global organizational work experience serving multi-site operations. Participated in multiple ERP and system Implementations. Advanced Excel functions, SQL Query / Report editing.
License: Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Certification: Lean Six Sigma Expert, Certified Healthcare Financial Professional
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
The above list of duties is not exhaustive, but intended to provide a general understanding of the role.