Accounts Payable and Receivable Manager

Shape Corp.•Grand Haven Charter Township, MI

About The Position

The Accounts Payable and Receivable Manager leads Shape Corp.'s shared-services accounts payable and accounts receivable functions, ensuring accurate, timely, secure, and well-controlled processing of supplier invoices, payments, customer receipts, and related accounting activity. The role provides day-to-day leadership to shared-services teams, supports month-end close, resolves complex issues, strengthens internal controls, and partners with plant finance, purchasing, treasury, commercial teams, and other business functions. The position also supports cash positioning, liquidity monitoring, short-term cash forecasting, banking activity, and line-of-credit administration. The manager owns the consistency, quality, scalability, automation, and continuous improvement of AP/AR and related cash-management processes across the organization, with accountability for service levels, working-capital performance, and control effectiveness.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including substantial accounts payable and/or accounts receivable responsibility in a high-volume environment.
Demonstrated experience leading team members and processes and delivering significant accounting, controls, or process-improvement initiatives.
Strong knowledge of general-ledger accounting, reconciliations, internal controls, segregation of duties, and month-end close.
Proficiency with ERP systems and advanced Microsoft Excel skills; ability to use data and dashboards to manage performance and exceptions.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, organizational, and prioritization skills, including the ability to lead through competing deadlines and high transaction volumes.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing both accounts payable and accounts receivable within a shared-services model.
Manufacturing, automotive, or multi-location accounting experience.
Experience with intercompany activity and ERP-enabled purchasing, invoicing, payment, cash-application, and bank-integration processes.
Experience improving or automating finance processes using workflow, RPA, AI-assisted tools, or business-intelligence reporting.
Experience with cash positioning, short-term cash forecasting, bank administration, or line-of-credit activity.
CPA, CMA, CTP, or another relevant professional certification.

Responsibilities

Oversee end-to-end accounts payable processing, including invoice workflows, supplier payments, vendor inquiries, payment-run approvals, exception monitoring, and corrective action.
Partner with purchasing, plant finance, and receiving teams to resolve purchase order, receipt, pricing, tax, and invoice discrepancies; oversee intercompany payables, supplier escalations, and vendor-master governance.
Oversee accounts receivable invoicing, cash application, account reconciliations, collections, credit support, and discrepancy resolution; monitor aging, disputes, deductions, and collection effectiveness.
Research unidentified deposits and unapplied cash; oversee intercompany receivables and clearing transactions; partner with commercial, customer-service, plant-finance, and pricing teams to resolve account issues.
Maintain actionable AP/AR reporting and KPIs, including aging, DSO, past-due percentage, collection effectiveness, unapplied cash, dispute cycle time, and root-cause trends.
Ensure AP and AR subledgers are accurate and closed on schedule; review reconciliations, clearing accounts, accruals, suspense accounts, and related balance-sheet accounts; coordinate general-ledger recording and close deadlines.
Support internal and external audits and maintain process, reconciliation, approval, account-access, and control documentation.
Develop and enforce consistent procedures, controls, approval matrices, and service standards across locations; lead process improvement and automation initiatives.
Use dashboards, exception analytics, and root-cause analysis to identify risk, capacity constraints, and improvement opportunities; partner on working-capital, cash-flow, ERP, banking, and accounting initiatives.
Establish and monitor role-based system access, segregation of duties, fraud-prevention controls, and secure payment-change verification procedures; evaluate workflow, RPA, AI-enabled exception handling, and reporting tools while maintaining human review of material or high-risk transactions.
Monitor cash balances, bank activity, and short-term liquidity; prepare daily cash-position reporting and support rolling short-term cash forecasts.
Monitor line-of-credit draws, repayments, interest, fees, covenant-related reporting inputs, and available capacity.
Coordinate significant receipts and disbursements, investigate unusual or unreconciled bank activity, support bank reconciliations, and assist with payment approvals, account access, authorized signers, positive pay, ACH controls, and documentation.
Lead, coach, and develop AP/AR team members; set goals and service expectations; balance workload, staffing, cross-training, and backup coverage; promote a customer-service, continuous-improvement, and controls-focused culture.
Manage performance measures for AP processing, payment timeliness, matching, exceptions, duplicate-payment prevention, discount capture, AR collections and aging, close completion, reconciliation quality, audit findings, control effectiveness, forecast accuracy, and productivity.
Perform additional functions as directed by the leader.