Director of Accounts Payable

Enthusiast Auto Holdings•Wadsworth, OH

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Enthusiast Auto Holdings (EAH) is a highly successful eCommerce company in the automotive parts industry. EAH serves automotive enthusiast customers and a global network of specialty installer shops. The company is owned and supported by Cortec Group, a private equity firm, which has invested significantly to expand EAH’s operations, facilities, technology, and leadership. EAH is currently implementing enterprise-level ERP / WMS / OMS systems and has recently completed a significant facility expansion. The Director of Accounts Payable will lead and unify the accounts payable function across all EAH banners, driving standardization, automation, and integration into EAH’s Finance Center of Excellence (COE). The ideal candidate will have proven experience leading a multi-entity A/P organization, ideally including the implementation of an A/P automation platform and/or an ERP migration. The Director must be effective operating independently, building and standardizing processes across multiple business units, and must partner closely with the EAH Corporate Controller and CFO to align the company’s A/P people, processes, and systems with EAH standards. The role will be based at EAH’s corporate offices, with periodic travel to banner and distribution-center locations as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline
Minimum 8 years of accounts payable experience, including 3–5+ years leading an A/P team at the manager or director level
Demonstrated experience owning A/P across multiple entities or business units, ideally in high-volume eCommerce, retail, or distribution
Proven track record building A/P controls, metrics, and process standardization
Experience in a private-equity-backed or multi-brand portfolio environment strongly preferred
History of driving continuous process improvement (automation, standardization, close cycle, KPI reporting)
Advanced Excel skills, with comfort managing large data sets
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust across multiple business units
Excellent analytical and organizational skills
Detail-oriented, ensuring impeccable quality of work
Self-motivated and self-directed
Unquestioned ethics and integrity

Nice To Haves

Ideally including A/P automation and/or ERP implementation experience.

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior leader and primary owner of the accounts payable function across all EAH banners, establishing a unified, centralized A/P organization within the Finance COE.
Evaluate each banner’s existing A/P processes, policies, and internal controls, and standardize them into a single set of A/P policies and procedures consistent with EAH standards and the COE operating model.
Document current-state A/P processes and controls across banners and deliver a written plan for aligning them to a common EAH standard.
Partner with the Corporate Controller and CFO to standardize invoice processing, three-way matching, approvals, and disbursement practices across all banners.
Lead the selection, implementation, and company-wide adoption of a third-party A/P automation platform — invoice capture, automated matching, approval routing, and payment execution.
Redesign and document A/P workflows to maximize automation and minimize manual effort, retiring legacy and manual processes as the COE rolls out.
Own end-to-end A/P for a high-volume eCommerce environment across multiple entities — invoice intake, coding, three-way match (PO / receipt / invoice), approvals, and disbursement (ACH, wire, and check).
Manage complex vendor scenarios, including prepaid international vendors, inbound freight and landed cost, and partial receipts, ensuring prepaids are matched and relieved accurately and timely.
Own vendor master-data integrity and vendor onboarding controls, including validation and fraud-prevention safeguards.
Drive working capital efficiency through disciplined management of vendor payment terms and disbursement timing.
Establish and own A/P metrics and early-warning controls — aging of unvouchered receipts and open payables, received-not-invoiced (RNI), exception reporting, and productivity by team and entity.
Ensure A/P is complete and current at each monthly close, owning A/P and prepaid account reconciliations, including aged reconciling-item review and sign-off.
Develop and enforce strong internal controls to protect company assets, and support internal and external audits, quality-of-earnings reviews, and lender reporting with audit-ready documentation.
Build, lead, and develop a centralized A/P team; recruit, coach, and set clear performance expectations.
Implement cross-training to eliminate single-person dependencies and ensure continuity across all essential A/P functions.
Partner effectively with banner operations, purchasing / supply (S&P), logistics, and treasury to resolve purchase variances and improve upstream processes.