Accounts Payable Team Lead

RIVA Solutions Inc.•Rockville, MD

5d•$80,000•Hybrid

About The Position

RIVA Solutions is seeking an Accounts Payable Team Lead to oversee Federal financial operations supporting the Financial Management Services. The ideal candidate will lead day-to-day accounts payable activities, supervise contractor staff, coordinate with the Government COR, and ensure timely, accurate processing of grant payments, user access, entity registration, banking requests, journal vouchers, dispositions, restrictions, reconciliations, records, and customer inquiries. This role requires strong Federal AP experience, practical knowledge of accounting controls, and the ability to guide a service-oriented team in a compliance-driven environment.

Requirements

Associate or Bachelor’s degree in business administration, business management, finance, accounting, or a related field with at least two years of practical Federal Government accounts payable experience; or four years of accounts payable specialist experience, including staff supervision.
Knowledge of Federal financial management, grant-related fiscal practices, accounting principles, internal controls, and administrative support processes common to FMP or similar customer agencies.
Demonstrated ability to supervise staff, communicate effectively verbally and in writing, manage competing priorities, and provide high-quality customer service in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, Teams, Jabber, and standard office productivity tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting Federal shared services, HHS financial operations, grant payment processing, Oracle Federal Financials, help desk workflows, SOP development, audit support, or NARA records-management activities.
Prior experience performing work similar to the scope of this contract, including AP transaction review, reconciliations, customer liaison support, and operational reporting.
Experience coordinating with Government customers, resolving escalated issues, and strengthening repeatable AP procedures in a production financial operations environment.

Responsibilities

Lead and oversee daily accounts payable operations, including staff assignments, work prioritization, quality review, training, mentoring, and issue resolution.
Review, process, and monitor user access requests, banking requests, entity registrations, grant restrictions, payments, dispositions, journal vouchers, and related financial transactions.
Monitor operational reports and help desk queues to ensure requests are processed accurately, customer inquiries are resolved timely, and open tickets are closed within expected service levels.
Serve as a primary operational liaison with the COR and program leadership to report status, elevate risks, resolve issues, and support continuous improvement of AP processes.
Provide customer service to grant recipients, awarding agencies, and internal stakeholders regarding payments, entity registration, banking, user access, dispositions, and journal vouchers.
Reconcile accounts, investigate discrepancies, validate transaction accuracy, and support resolution of payment, access, registration, and banking issues.
Maintain internal controls designed to reduce audit findings, fraud risk, duplicate payments, penalties, and non-compliance with Federal, State, university, and program requirements.
Ensure proper maintenance, filing, storage, and protection of sensitive records in accordance with NARA guidance and applicable Government records-management requirements.
Develop, review, finalize, and submit Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and other operational documentation for contracted AP activities.
Use Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, Teams, Jabber, and applicable ticketing or financial systems to support daily operations and stakeholder communications.