Director Accounts Payable

THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING:

• Private Equity backed manufacturing and distribution company HQ in South Charlotte
• Company is expanding and growing market segments and creating a shared services center for human resources; payroll, benefits, and information systems to provide best in class service to 5,000 employees across North America
• Exceptionally stable leadership team with decades of working together to accomplish greatness for their colleagues and clients

WHAT THEY OFFER YOU:

• Experience servant leadership mentality by your direct leadership and executive team
• Proven support in bringing ideas to life and professional development guidance
• Grow your career as quickly as this proven business is growing market share

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT:

• Responsibility for overseeing all accounts payable functions.
• This includes ensuring timely recording of vendor invoices, coordinating with the supply chain, other departments, and vendors to resolve any invoice and vendor issues, while emphasizing exceptional customer service.
• There is a close collaborative relationship with the IT team to maintain the accounts payable systems (OnBase, SX.e, AS400, AnyDoc, FutureState, AP Templates).
• Other areas of oversight include processing travel and expense reports, 1099 compliance reporting, vendor database management.
• Experience leading successful transformation project is an essential skill needed to identify synergies, continuous improvement, and implement executive KPIs and reporting that is system agnostic
• Coach, mentor and lead both clerical and professional accounts payable associates, handling
• performance reviews, disciplinary actions, and other administrative employee functions.
• Develop and maintain training and development programs for accounts payable associates.
• Oversee the processing of accounts payable transactions to ensure compliance with company
• policy. This includes ensuring timely and accurate payments, taking advantage of available
• discounts, and ensuring proper coding and approval of invoices.
• Identify inefficiencies and problems with vendors to minimize costs. Develop and maintain
• Standard Operating Procedures and monitor compliance through routine review of associates' work.
• Maintain production and customer service performance measurements.
• Ensure that service delivery standards are communicated and met in accordance with
• established service level agreements.
• Continually initiate and lead process improvement initiatives at both the departmental and organizational level.
• Supervise vendor relations and credit hold resolutions.
• Identify and implement system and process improvements approved by the management team.
• Resolve vendor complaints promptly.
• Manage customer and vendor expectations and requirements.

BACKGROUND THAT FITS:

• Must possess strong planning, organizational, time management and execution skills
• Must have the ability to set goals and meet deadlines
• Must possess excellent customer service skills
• Must demonstrate ownership and pride of assigned responsibilities
• Must possess a proactive and positive team approach to problem resolution
• Must have the ability to establish strong working relationships with co-workers and management