Accounts Payable Manager

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Job Title: Accounts Payable Manager

Job Location: - Woonsocket- 02895

Pay Rate: $37.24/HR on W2

Duration: 4 Months (Possibility of extension)

Shift: Mon - Fri 8am-4:30pm EST, Mon & Fri WFH, Tue, Wed & Thur in office

Accounts Payable Expense Manager

Position Summary

This position will function as a Manager for a team of accounts payable associates dedicated to the processing of PBM and expense payables. This person will oversee the daily activities and processes of the corporate accounts payable department as well as partnering with and supporting external areas that impact the department. With the direction and guidance of Sr Manager/Leadership, this person will manage the strategic direction of the department in addition to supporting ongoing process improvements and department initiatives. The Manager will have an active role in performing reviews and coaching the staff in an effort to enhance productivity, accuracy, and efficiency amongst the team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manages the team, which contains onsite, work from home and offshore CET’s coworkers, in completing the day-to-day processing of Accounts Payable duties and cross training on individual tasks and processes
• Support, handle, and work with team members to resolve the more complicated helpdesk correspondences and or issues
• Communicate daily with AP Leadership to review the team’s workload, backlogs, open issues, and direct changes in the workflow and/or restructure workload as deemed necessary as well as to strategize on process improvements and staffing
• Perform interviews for open positions and oversee the training plan of new hires
• Write and communicate mid-year and annual reviews, including coaching for development and compensation recommendation
• Lead and execute business process initiatives, including continuous A/P process improvements and system enhancements, leveraging technology and best practices involving cross functional stakeholders
• Represent A/P as the SME while working with IT, internal and external business partners/teams for various enterprise-wide initiatives
• Review area specific functions, tasks, and responsibilities for ensuring efficiencies
• Perform audit functions as needed and required which includes but is not limited to SOX, IA and Department/Team requests
• Perform other duties as assigned

The successful candidate will possess the following:

• Demonstrable experience with positive and successful transforming in Accounts Payable Departments
• Excellent decision-making ability and independent reasoning skills
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written and strong interpersonal skills) with an ability to communicate professionally with internal, external, staff and leadership personnel
• Ability to recognize and formulate change for areas of improvement in order to increase productivity and efficiency
• Displays a high degree of organizational agility to help the A/P department to react quickly and successfully towards the development of new efficiencies, processes, and/or technologies or sudden shifts in overall market conditions
• Highly organized with excellent time management skills and attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize work and delegate assignments to staff members
• Ability to provide outstanding customer service while maintaining the financial systems, ethical standards and compliance with internal policies, procedures and controls
• Excellent ability to work professional with others internally and externally of Accounts Payable

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in multiple ERP systems, specifically, SAP and Oracle, Ariba
• Experience within a large, retail organization
• Clear understanding of Accounts Payable and Accounts Payable best practices
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook PowerPoint, Access)
• MBA

Required Qualifications

• Previous Accounts Payable or Finance related experience
• Previous Supervisor or Manager level experience.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of related professional work experience in combination with education.