Supervisor, Accounts Payable
About The Position
The Accounts Payable Supervisor oversees the full life cycle of North American Accounts Payable operations, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant processing of vendor invoices and payments. This role provides daily leadership and direction to the Accounts Payable team, fostering a high‑performance culture focused on efficiency, accountability, and continuous improvement. This role will require a strong finance professional who has a thorough understanding of maintaining a continuous improvement mindset and ability to proactively identify, review, and implement process and system improvements and ensure objectives are achieved. The successful candidate will be detailed and deadline-oriented, operational, and can operate in a fast-paced, complex, and collaborative environment.
Requirements
- 3 - 5 years of overall accounting experience required
- Strong project management skills
- Willingness to learn new skills
- Ability to prioritize workload in a dynamic environment
- Effective analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Perform root-cause analysis at both strategic and functional level
- Able to apply generally accepted accounting principles to AP processes
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills and working knowledge of other MS Office products
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting or related field, highly desired
- Accounts Payable experience in a high growth company
- Ability to drive continuous improvement
- Strong sense of ownership and willingness to tackle challenges in a continuously changing environment
- Ability to think Globally
- Proficiency in QAD, SAP, OnBase/Brainware and RateLinxs is strongly desired
Responsibilities
- Supervise the Accounts Payable department staff & activities, including: Participate in hiring, training, mentoring & coaching, Develop and evaluate employees’ performance and workload, Determine work priorities, Ensure timely and accurate completion of deliverables
- Analyze invoices processed for accuracy and compliance with internal control requirements for the Purchase-to-Pay process
- Execute routine vendor payment transactions, in collaboration with the cash management & sourcing departments
- Perform monthly journal entries & account reconciliations for A/P related accounts
- Monitor aging of open AP and the GRIR accounts
- 1099 annual process and tax related matters
- Unclaimed property process to ensure adherence to company and state guidelines
- Escheatment review and process
- Assist with the development and implementation of process improvements at the direction of the Senior Manager, Accounts Payable
- Oversee vendor inquiries regarding payments & other related matters
- Investigate, research & resolve root cause of any processing issues in the department
- Assist with monthly department metrics reporting and generation of process improvement or efficiency ideas
- Foster positive relationships with internal departments and external vendor base
- Implement policy or procedural changes at the direction of the Senior Manager, Accounts Payable
- Serve as backup to the Senior Manager, Accounts Payable for vendor master maintenance and other responsibilities
- All other tasks and/or duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
