Director, Procure to Pay Operations
About The Position
The Director, Procure to Pay Operations leads DIRECTV’s Accounts Payable function and guides it through its next stage of growth. This hands-on leadership role owns the end-to-end AP lifecycle, including non-PO invoice processing, payment runs and bank file management, supplier onboarding and master data integrity, returned EFTs, stale-dated checks, and unclaimed property. The Director leads AP Managers responsible for back-office and shared services staff and sets standards for accountability, continuous improvement, and customer service. The role manages ACH, wire, check, and international payment processes, ensuring scheduled, ad hoc, and off-cycle payments are accurate, timely, and properly controlled. It supports a strong control environment through SOX compliance, tax reporting oversight, audit coordination, and fraud prevention, including defenses against business email compromise and payment redirection schemes. Working with IT, Treasury, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Purchasing, and Sourcing, the Director develops an AP strategy centered on automation and self-service. The role leads Oracle Fusion Cloud enhancements and contributes to system implementations, migrations, acquisitions, and process integrations. This is a remote position available anywhere in the United States except Alaska, with Central or Eastern U.S. candidates preferred to align with AP operational hours.
Requirements
- At least 5–7 years of AP experience, including at least 5–7 years managing an AP operations team.
- Demonstrated experience managing managers and a back-office or shared services team.
- Deep knowledge of the full AP lifecycle, including invoice processing, payment runs, supplier maintenance, and exception handling.
- Hands-on experience with ad hoc payment files, returned EFTs, stale checks, and escheatment processes.
- Strong understanding of payment methods and banking, including ACH/NACHA, wires, and checks.
- Experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud.
- Strong knowledge of internal controls, fraud prevention, and audit requirements.
- Excellent critical thinking, forward planning, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work swiftly, multitask, and reprioritize in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence people at all levels and across departments.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration, or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- 10 or more years of AP experience.
- Location in the Central or Eastern United States.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop AP Managers who manage back-office and shared services staff.
- Build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and customer service.
- Oversee the full lifecycle of non-PO invoices, including questions, discrepancies, duplicate invoice prevention, and recovery of overpayments and credits.
- Reduce manual invoice-processing work through automation, process improvements, and exception analysis.
- Own scheduled payment runs for ACH, wire, check, and international payments.
- Oversee creation, transmission, and reconciliation of payment files to banks.
- Manage ad hoc, off-cycle, manual, and exception payment files with appropriate approvals and controls.
- Ensure compliance with bank cutoffs and payment policies, and coordinate with Treasury on cash forecasting, funding, and payment timing.
- Manage returned or rejected EFT/ACH payments, including investigating causes, validating bank details, reissuing payments, and correcting supplier master data.
- Manage payment voids and reissues, the stale-dated check process, and compliance with escheatment and unclaimed property regulations in partnership with Legal, Tax, and Accounting.
- Own supplier onboarding, including W-9/W-8 collection, TIN matching, and bank account validation.
- Manage supplier master data change requests, including banking, remit-to, legal name, and address updates.
- Maintain supplier data integrity through regular cleansing, duplicate detection, and inactive-supplier handling.
- Enhance supplier portal and self-service tools to reduce manual intervention.
- Maintain a strong internal control environment, including SOX controls where applicable.
- Partner with Internal Audit, External Audit, and Compliance on testing and remediation.
- Ensure tax reporting compliance, including 1099, VAT/GST, and withholding, in partnership with Tax.
- Define, document, and update policies, procedures, and desk-level instructions.
- Monitor and mitigate fraud risks, including business email compromise and payment redirection schemes.
- Partner with IT on ERP, AP automation, bank connectivity, and system integrations; lead UAT, defect resolution, and roadmap prioritization.
- Align with Purchasing and Sourcing on AP processes, supplier setup, and payment terms.
- Coordinate with Treasury, Accounting, Tax, and Legal on working capital initiatives, cash management, month-end close, reconciliations, and regulatory requirements.
- Resolve business stakeholder escalations and communicate expectations for approvals and turnaround times.
- Develop a forward-looking AP strategy that considers automation and lead continuous improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to system implementations, migrations, acquisitions, and process integrations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
