The Director Accounting Services – Accounts Payable is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of the Accounts Payable shared services team. This role will be a key member of our growing Finance Shared Service leadership team contributing to our continued build-out a successful Finance Shared Services organization.

• Directs and leads geographically dispersed, high-volume AP team of 40+ FTE’s. In addition, manages the relationship with offshore vendor who provides an additional 50+ resources.
• Business owner of the Accounts Payable application, responsible for guidance on proper use and processes and management of quarterly vendor application updates.
• Develops an in-depth understanding of the data flow for as-is Accounts Payable transactions and processes, identify inefficiency and issues and lead improvement.
• Responsible for team performance including recruitment, training, and development. Also provides guidance, mentorship, and performance feedback to ensure the team’s success.
• Manages a team that facilitates timely, accurate and reliable Invoices Payments as well as accurate and timely vendor set-up and management.
• Actively performs and participates in the review of month-end close activities, financial audit, balance sheet flux and subsequent reporting.
• Leads the annual 1099 preparation.
• Responsible for the management of offshore vendors.
• Continuously monitors the health of the payables function.
• Interacts and collaborates with multiple teams including Procurement, Finance, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, and IT.
• Leads the establishment and maintenance for AP policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance with all regulations and standards.
• Knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements, including identifying and documenting key controls and processes and supporting internal controls testing.
• Independently and in collaboration with other teams, drives continuous improvement efforts by implementing process improvements, technology driven solutions and automation.
• Leads execution of business process improvements which optimize performance, improve end-user experience, and enables scale for growth.
• Provides experience and judgment to drive decision making on behalf of the team.
• Other job-related duties as assigned or apparent.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience leading accounts payable or shared services operations.
• Extensive experience with Accounts Payable financial/accounting systems (Microsoft D365 or Oracle Cloud experience a plus).
• Proficient in MS Office including Excel, Power Point and Word.
• Excellent leadership, management and supervisory skills including team building, influencing, motivating, developing, and overseeing onsite and offsite staff.
• Transformation experience including experience with application implementation.
• Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
• Independent, self-starter with strong business/financial acumen
• Experienced in change adoption and management.
• Experience in influencing cross-functional leaders in a large organization.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 8 years of related professional level accounting or financial experience.
• Minimum of 5 years managerial, supervisory or lead experience.