Accounts Payable Manager, Global Finance Operations

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer-focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

Azenta Life Sciences is a global leader in the life sciences space with headquarters in Burlington, MA, and offices and operations worldwide. We are a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and genomic services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally. We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing over 1 billion samples globally.

How You’ll Add Value…

We are looking for an Accounts Payable Manager, Global Finance Operations to support Azenta’s global Accounts Payable functions. This position will be responsible for working with internal process owners, our BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) provider and external suppliers to ensure timely and accurate recordkeeping of all Accounts Payable transactions. Our mission is to deliver a world class service while continuously optimizing operational efficiencies and global standardization. This position will report to the Corporate Controller and will be based in our Burlington office.

What You’ll Do…

• Closely manage the day-to-day accounts payable operations performed by offshore teams; provide analytics to key business stakeholders for decision making; provide support on both statutory and US financial audits
• Responsible for preparation or review of month end close deliverables related to accounts payable. This includes journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations
• Support supplier onboarding and oversight of the full invoice life cycle
• Support daily operations with the BPO and ensure transaction queues are maintained timely and accurately
• Maintain governance, including proper documentation on the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of all activities, ensuring there are no knowledge or service gaps in any process that may result in negative service levels to the business or financial misstatements
• Participate and lead frequent governance/stakeholder calls and provide training as necessary
• Maintain and report key metrics to validate accuracy, understand root cause analysis, and implement future enhancements
• Meet Service Level Agreements with our business partners
• Comply with all Azenta’s Financial Policies, SOX and Audit Certification tasks
• Develop and maintain professional relationships while providing high quality, efficient and courteous service
• Oversee the escalations for both the business stakeholders and our suppliers to ensure timely and satisfactory resolutions
• Collaborate with procurement and other business stakeholders to implement or identify process improvement initiatives
• Oversee review and modification of P2P related policy enhancements as needed
• Other duties and special projects as needed.
  
  
  

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• 8 years work experience in the accounting or finance field, experience in a publicly-held global company is a plus
• Prior management experience required
• Prior experience in an outsourced or global shared services environment preferred
• Experience in implementing global processes and systems a plus
• Must have knowledge of US GAAP, and experience in preparing detailed account reconciliations
• Proficiency in a variety of systems, including MS Office suite of tools (Word, PowerPoint, and high-level Excel spreadsheets such as familiarity with macros, pivot tables, lookup, and IF functions)
• Manage a high volume of work while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to research independently to drill down and find account discrepancies, identify problems, suggest viable solutions and make decisions within scope of responsibility
• Ability to recognize opportunities to streamline and standardize global processes
  
  
  

Desired Characteristics

• Experience with Oracle, or other large ERP systems
• Ability to communicate effectively and tactfully in a multicultural environment with persons at all levels of the organization across all communication channels
• Demonstrated customer service orientation and proficiency in working with cross functional customer groups across a large global organization
• Able to quickly build rapport and establish credibility with stakeholders
• Excellent time management skills to perform in a fast-paced, high-pressure, high-volume environment and work well under tight deadlines
• Autonomously and resourcefully delivers high-quality, high-impact work end-to-end
• A collaborative, team player, flexible, and able to adjust to changing priorities quickly; demonstrates a high level of influence and teamwork skills
• Supports an environment of intellectual curiosity and a culture of innovation
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail a must
  
  
  

Working Conditions/ Schedule

Must be available and willing to travel and/or attend virtual reviews in local time zones both domestically and internationally as needed. Travel to other Company sites and events may be required.

EOE M/F/Disabled/VET

Azenta Life Sciences is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do our utmost to ensure that there is no discrimination or bias against anyone applying for a job or in any phase of employment for reasons related to race, color, religion, gender, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, military service, sexual orientation, genetic information, or gender identity.
  
  
  

We welcome and value diversity, to ensure that our work benefits from a broad range of viewpoints and perspectives. Our growing global reach gives us the opportunity to bring to our business an even richer diversity of experiences and capabilities. For assistance in the application process, please reach out to Recruiting@azenta.com or call (978) 262-2400. Review EEO Poster Know Your Rights: WOrkplace Discrimination is Illegal (dol.gov)

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• The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
  
  
  

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