What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Payment Services position at Simon Property Group?
Job Location:
Corporate Indianapolis
Primary Purpose
Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President and Assistant Treasurer, the Director of Payment Services is responsible for global accounts payables, vendor management, credit card programs and the company’s travel card and expense reporting programs. The position is further responsible for ensuring the development of the department’s business continuity strategy and its execution. This position interacts with other functional areas of Treasury & Capital Markets, Accounting, Tax, Receivables, and Audit. The Director must have strong leadership skills, excellent communication skills, oral and written, with the ability to interact effectively with the aforementioned areas at a management level.
Principal Responsibilites
Corporate Indianapolis
Primary Purpose
Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President and Assistant Treasurer, the Director of Payment Services is responsible for global accounts payables, vendor management, credit card programs and the company’s travel card and expense reporting programs. The position is further responsible for ensuring the development of the department’s business continuity strategy and its execution. This position interacts with other functional areas of Treasury & Capital Markets, Accounting, Tax, Receivables, and Audit. The Director must have strong leadership skills, excellent communication skills, oral and written, with the ability to interact effectively with the aforementioned areas at a management level.
Principal Responsibilites
- Develops talent for the department, including development of professionals and succession planning for key roles. Ensures a strong performance management process that aligns individual objectives with business metrics and connects performance against objectives for career progression.
- Supervises all payments for the company, including wires, ACH, checks, card payments, and expense reports for accuracy and approvals. Ensures compliance with company policies.
- Leads company-wide effort to reduce fraud risk and employs best-in-class strategies to mitigate payment fraud risks.
- Leads usage of Coupa, the company’s Source-to-Pay platform, including driving vendor adoption and digital invoicing.
- Develops strategies and tactics and negotiates directly with vendors to optimize payment terms and payment methods.
- Provides management oversight for the company’s travel card program and expense reporting system.
- Responsible for ensuring departmental related policies and procedures are updated as needed to reflect current job duties and processes.
- Completes and reviews reporting requirements; driving process improvements based on metrics.
- Leads the strategy and business plans of the Department.
- Ensures compliance with all department and company level policies & procedures and SOX controls.
- A Bachelor’s degree with 5 – 10 years of relevant work experience.
- Highly motivated individual with an interest in treasury management and payment services.
- Prior use of Coupa, JD Edwards, banking systems, including ACH processing tools, is a plus.
- Demonstrates mature conduct in sensitive and high pressure situations as well as the ability to multi-task and prioritize accordingly in a fast paced environment while keeping up with time sensitive deadlines.
- Strong knowledge and demonstrated capabilities in accounting, Microsoft Office, and managing policies and procedures.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to bring innovative analyses to the department.
- Ability to solve practical problems.