Director, Procure to Pay

Agilysys•Alpharetta, GA

9h•Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Procure to Pay leads and optimizes the Company’s end-to-end procure-to-pay operating model, including purchasing governance, vendor onboarding, accounts payable oversight, corporate spend controls, and payment-process governance. The position is the business process owner for the governance, design, measurement, and continuous improvement of the procure-to-pay function. It establishes scalable policies, approval structures, internal controls, technology strategies, and performance expectations to improve transparency, accountability, compliance, and operational efficiency. The Senior Manager of Accounts Payable reports to this role and retains responsibility for daily AP operations, team leadership, invoice and payment execution, AP close support, reconciliations, and transaction-level vendor service. The Director provides strategic oversight and is the escalation point for significant systemic, policy, governance, control, or cross-functional issues. The role will shape the Company’s procure-to-pay operating model by strengthening spend governance, increasing purchasing discipline, improving internal controls, and increasing visibility into supplier and discretionary spending. As a trusted advisor to Finance leadership, the Director assesses how purchasing, vendor management, accounts payable, corporate card administration, and business stakeholders work together, and develops recommendations for future-state processes, organizational responsibilities, systems, and governance structures. The Director also leads efforts to centralize, standardize, automate, and streamline procure-to-pay activities to support a scalable finance operations model. This is a full-time, in-office position for local candidates only. The position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be willing to complete any required license applications, background checks, security checks, and other documentation, and provide identification documents required by governmental agencies to maintain compliance and perform the role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related field.
At least 10 years of progressive experience in procure-to-pay, finance operations, accounting operations, shared services, procurement operations, or a related function.
Experience working in a public company and SOX-compliant environment.
Experience owning or improving end-to-end business processes spanning multiple functions and stakeholders.
Strong understanding of procure-to-pay governance, purchasing controls, vendor management, accounts payable operations, and payment processes.
Experience developing and implementing policies, procedures, controls, and operating standards that improve accountability, compliance, and efficiency.
Experience evaluating and improving operating models, organizational structures, functional responsibilities, and process ownership.
Ability to develop spend reporting, operational metrics, dashboards, and actionable business insights.
People leadership experience, including responsibility for managers or cross-functional teams.
Strong project management and organizational capabilities, including the ability to manage several complex initiatives simultaneously.
Comprehensive understanding of end-to-end procure-to-pay processes and their relationship to Accounting, Finance, IT, Legal, Operations, and departmental stakeholders.
Strong knowledge of purchasing governance, vendor onboarding, accounts payable, corporate spend, payment controls, and delegated authority frameworks.
Strong governance and controls orientation balanced with operational practicality.
Ability to evaluate complex organizational environments and recommend realistic, scalable solutions.
Strong analytical skills and ability to translate spend data, operating metrics, and control findings into meaningful business insights.
Ability to establish process ownership, performance measures, service expectations, and cross-functional accountability.
Strong executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to influence decisions and drive change without direct reporting authority.
Strong project and change-management skills, including translating long-term strategic objectives into clear implementation plans.
Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
Willingness to complete required license applications, background checks, security checks, and other documentation, and provide required identification documents.

Nice To Haves

CMA, MBA, or equivalent advanced degree or professional certification.
Experience in a SaaS, software, or technology company.
Experience serving as a business process owner for procure-to-pay, source-to-pay, shared services, or another cross-functional finance process.
Experience implementing or optimizing ERP, procurement, AP automation, corporate card, or expense management platforms.
Experience with NetSuite, DocuPhase, Emburse, Coupa, Zip, Tipalti, Workday, SAP Concur, Airbase, or comparable systems.
Experience supporting domestic and international vendor populations.

Responsibilities

Serve as the end-to-end business process owner for the Company’s procure-to-pay framework, including purchasing governance, vendor onboarding, corporate spend management, payment governance, and policy administration.
Establish and maintain scalable P2P policies, approval requirements, governance standards, controls, and cross-functional accountability.
Increase purchasing discipline, approval compliance, and visibility into vendor and discretionary spending; partner with business leaders to improve spending accountability and decision-making.
Evaluate and mature the procure-to-pay operating model, assess organizational alignment, and recommend functional ownership, roles, responsibilities, organizational structures, and segregation of duties.
Advise Finance leadership on procure-to-pay capabilities, spending governance, organizational design, and operational scalability.
Own the cross-functional procure-to-pay technology and transformation roadmap; identify opportunities to centralize, standardize, automate, or streamline purchasing, vendor onboarding, invoice processing, payment, and corporate spend activities.
Evaluate and improve ERP, procurement, AP automation, corporate card, and expense management processes and platforms.
Establish governance forums, stakeholder engagement processes, and reporting mechanisms that improve oversight of company spending.
Identify process improvements and technology solutions that improve scalability and user experience while reducing administrative burden; develop implementation plans with measurable operational improvements.
Support SOX compliance through process documentation, control design, control monitoring, testing support, and remediation.
Partner with Internal Audit and External Audit on procure-to-pay inquiries, testing, documentation, and audit requests.
Monitor systemic risks involving policy violations, duplicate payments, fraud, unauthorized spending, and control exceptions; ensure compliance with delegated authority, purchasing policies, and financial governance standards.
Develop reporting and monitoring practices for operational, financial, and compliance risks; evaluate control effectiveness and recommend enhancements that balance risk management with operational efficiency.
Oversee corporate credit card and employee spend programs from a governance, control, and financial oversight perspective; monitor spending for policy compliance, financial accuracy, and alignment with business objectives.
Develop spend analytics and reporting to identify trends, cost-reduction opportunities, policy exceptions, and areas requiring management attention.
Manage relationships with corporate card providers and expense management platforms; partner with FP&A and business leaders on spend analytics, budgeting, forecasting, and cost management.
Lead and oversee the Senior Manager of Accounts Payable, establishing strategic priorities, performance expectations, controls, and service standards for the AP function.
Partner with Accounting leadership on systemic P2P issues affecting financial reporting, period-end close, and working capital.
Escalate and address significant systemic, policy, governance, control, vendor, or payment issues that cannot be resolved through normal AP operations.
Ensure appropriate accountability between strategic P2P ownership and tactical Accounts Payable execution.