Accounts Payable Manager

AMIRI•Los Angeles, CA

9d•$105,000 - $120,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Accounts Payable Manager will oversee the end-to-end Accounts Payable function, including an offshore AP team, and ensure accurate and timely invoice processing, payments, reconciliations, and month-end activities. This role will also be expected to continuously assess current AP operations, identify opportunities for improvement, and proactively recommend and implement changes. The ideal candidate is hands-on, comfortable challenging existing processes, and able to drive greater efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
7–10+ years of progressive Accounts Payable or accounting experience, including supervisory or management experience.
Strong knowledge of AP processes, three-way matching, purchase orders, accruals, and month-end close.
Experience with ERP and AP automation systems; NetSuite experience is a plus.
Strong Excel and analytical skills.
Strong understanding of internal controls and segregation of duties.
Proactive, hands-on, and comfortable speaking up and constructively challenging the status quo.
Strong problem-solving and process-improvement mindset, with the ability to identify root causes and drive solutions through implementation.
Strong people-management skills, including the ability to effectively manage remote and offshore teams.
Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Ability to prioritize and manage high transaction volumes in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing offshore, outsourced, or shared-service teams preferred.
Experience in luxury fashion, apparel, retail, consumer products, or another inventory-driven environment preferred.

Responsibilities

Oversee the end-to-end Accounts Payable function, including invoice processing, approvals, payments, vendor inquiries, reconciliations, and month-end close activities.
Manage and provide day-to-day oversight of the offshore AP team, including workload, performance, quality, training, and issue escalation.
Oversee three-way matching of purchase orders, receipts, and invoices, including resolution of quantity, pricing, and other discrepancies.
Partner with Production, Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, Retail, Treasury, and Finance teams to resolve AP-related issues.
Oversee vendor onboarding and master data maintenance, ensuring appropriate controls over vendor setup and banking changes.
Coordinate domestic and international payment runs and ensure compliance with company approval and internal control requirements.
Support month-end close, including AP reconciliations, accruals, cutoff, and reporting.
Establish and monitor AP KPIs, including processing timeliness, accuracy, backlog, exceptions, and payment performance.
Continuously assess AP operations, workflows, and controls to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, recurring issues, and opportunities for automation.
Proactively recommend and drive process improvements, including challenging existing practices when a more effective approach is identified.
Identify root causes of recurring AP issues and work cross-functionally to implement sustainable solutions.
Maintain and improve AP policies, procedures, internal controls, and process documentation.
Support internal and external audit requirements.