Accounts Payable Manager

Employee Owned Holdings, Inc. • Houston, TX

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About The Position

Employee Owned Holdings, Inc. (EOH) is a family of 100% employee-owned companies that provide highly engineered solutions. EOHI provides centralized corporate services, including Accounting, HR, Marketing, Operations, and IT, to support its operating companies.

The Accounts Payable Manager leads the accounts payable function across EOHI, Hydraquip, GCC, and SIT during a period of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. This hands-on leadership role owns the procure-to-pay process and day-to-day team management, with responsibility for accuracy, timeliness, accountability, strong controls, and responsive service to internal stakeholders and vendors. The manager reports to the Corporate Controller and partners with purchasing, operations, finance leadership, the CFO, Treasury, and other shared services teams.

The role oversees invoice processing and matching, payment runs and cash coordination, vendor records and relationships, month-end close support and reconciliations, compliance, audit readiness, systems optimization, process improvement, and AP integration for acquisitions. The position also supports AP operations in manufacturing and industrial distribution environments, including inventory purchasing, freight and landed costs, and project job-cost coding.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business.
• Five to ten years of progressive accounts payable experience, including five years in a supervisory or management role.
• Experience with an automated procure-to-pay solution.
• Experience with ERP systems.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the end-to-end procure-to-pay process, including three-way match, payment processing, and vendor management.
• Demonstrated people leadership, including holding teams accountable and developing talent.
• Demonstrated success in process improvement, operational efficiency, and systems optimization.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP as it relates to accruals, cutoff, and liability recognition.
• Strong understanding of internal controls and fraud prevention in disbursement processes.
• Proficiency in Excel and comfort working with large data sets.
• Excellent communication, prioritization, and relationship-building skills.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in manufacturing or engineered solutions environments.
• Experience in industrial distribution.
• Experience supporting multi-entity organizations and growth through acquisitions.
• Experience with Epicor Prophet 21 and/or Epicor Kinetic.
• Experience with automated procure-to-pay solutions such as Esker, DataServ, Tipalti, Stampli, or AI agentic solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the AP function across EOHI, Hydraquip, GCC, and SIT, setting expectations, metrics, and service standards for ownership, accuracy, timeliness, and service.
• Directly manage, coach, and develop the AP team; establish cross-training and backup coverage across entities and hold team members accountable for results.
• Oversee timely and accurate processing of vendor invoices, including inventory, freight, subcontractor, and expense invoices.
• Ensure consistent three-way matching of purchase orders, receipts, and invoices, and resolve exceptions with purchasing, operations, and vendors.
• Own scheduled check, ACH, and wire payment runs, including review, approval, and release.
• Coordinate with the CFO and Treasury on cash flow needs and manage payment timing and early-payment discount opportunities in line with working capital goals.
• Maintain the vendor master file, manage onboarding and W-9 collection, and verify banking changes.
• Reconcile vendor statements, resolve disputes, and maintain professional vendor relationships.
• Support monthly close across entities by ensuring AP cutoff, accruals including received-not-invoiced, and timely reconciliation of the AP subledger to the general ledger.
• Eliminate unreconciled variances and meet established close timelines.
• Maintain procure-to-pay internal controls, including segregation of duties, approval authority, duplicate payment prevention, and fraud safeguards.
• Support audit requests and maintain audit readiness.
• Ensure accurate and timely 1099 reporting, appropriate sales and use tax treatment on vendor invoices, and compliance with unclaimed property requirements for stale-dated payments.
• Apply sound AP judgment in manufacturing and industrial distribution environments, including inventory purchasing, freight and landed costs, and job-cost coding for project-based work.
• Drive effective use and optimization of ERP and AP systems, and identify and implement automation opportunities such as invoice capture, workflow approvals, and electronic payments.
• Improve AP processes to reduce cycle times and rework and support organizational growth while balancing controls with practical execution.
• Ensure the AP team provides responsive, professional, solutions-oriented service to internal customers and external vendors.
• Support AP integration for acquisitions, including vendor consolidation, process alignment, system transitions, and continuity of vendor payments.
• Partner with Purchasing, Operations, IT, HR, and shared services teams to align AP processes with broader business objectives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) plans with company match.
• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), through which employees automatically begin investing in company stock without purchasing shares.
• Training intended to help employee owners develop their skills and advance their careers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager