About the job

The Accounts Payable Manager leads the AP team and activities, including administering the AP systems, and account balance reconciliations, general ledger maintenance, month-end close procedures, and providing direction, guidance and coaching to the team.

What you’ll do

• Provide leadership to the global accounts payable team, including providing direction, establishing processes and timelines, measuring outcomes, providing performance coaching, and providing development opportunities
• Oversee the processing, verification, approval, discrepancy resolution and coding of all payments and expenditures, including vendor invoices, purchase orders, corporate and virtual credit cards, employee expense reports, and similar transactions
• Conduct monthly, quarterly and annual reconciliations, including balance sheet, general ledger, P&L flux analysis, and other reconciliations and analyses
• Administer the AP & PO systems, including leading upgrades, enhancements and implementations
• Leads Tipalti’s annual 1099 filing
• Partner with finance and accounting leadership and teams on compliance, process improvements, documentation, internal and external audits, expenditure analysis, reporting, and related oversight actions

What you’ll need

• What you’ve learned:
• Undergraduate degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent combination of experience and education

• Your background includes:
• 5+ years hands on experience with general ledger, AP, and PO functions and the month-end/year-end close process.
• 2+ years of direct leadership experience, including providing direction, establishing processes and measuring outcomes, and managing individual performance and development
• Experience with international business operations with multiple legal entities and inter-company transactions required
• Experience in a SaaS and/or Fintech environment preferred
• Experience leading a global team preferred

• Your skills include:
• In-depth understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Advanced understanding of accounting-related software platforms and integrations, such as NetSuite, Expensify, Egencia or similar platforms; understanding of the Tipalti platform and functionality highly preferred
• Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, Vlookups, pivot tables, macros and analysis tools

Unique aspects of this role

• Travel:
• Little or no overnight travel anticipated (anticipated to be 5% or less).
• Schedule:
• Normal workweek business hours within geographic location and time zone.
• Will require flexibility to coordinate schedules across time zones with internal teams and external customers and contacts.
• Physical aspects:
• Position is located onsite/in-office three days per week.
• Prolonged sitting and/or standing at workstation.
• Prolonged computer and/or telephone usage.
• Ability to hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.
• Visual acuity at close ranges.