Accounts Payable Lead

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We are looking for a highly motivated Accounts Payable Team Lead to manage the daily operations of a team of Accounts Payable (AP) Analysts and assist in optimizing team productivity and efficiency. The ideal candidate is a strong leader, detail-oriented, communicative, able to work independently and is a team player with a solid working knowledge of AP and Expense operations. This role will be successful by being meticulous, personable, and able to both take direction and take initiative.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Effectively lead day-to-day operations for AP Analysts
• Monitor AP related metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for operational decision making through daily, weekly, and monthly reporting to on-shore management
• Act as a subject matter expert for all AP and Expense related duties
• Provide operational guidance for AP Analysts and serve as main point-of-contact for team; train, coach, monitor, support, influence, and promote discipline among the team members
• Resolve, communicate, and escalate issues to on-shore management

• Ability to jump in and process high volume of supplier invoices with accuracy and audit expense reports to ensure compliance to T&E policies, as needed.
• Participate in ad hoc projects
  

Required Skills / Desired Experience:

• 5+ years of Accounts Payable and/or relevant experience, with 1+ years leading a team
• College degree required with courses in accounting desirable
• Ability to retain and understand intent of company policies
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Possess strong organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work closely with various teams throughout the company
• Capable of taking initiative to drive process change and improvements

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• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic setting while maintaining accuracy and delivering against deadlines
• Motivated to work cross-functionally in a customer service-oriented capacity
• Knowledge of cloud based systems (Workday Expenses, Coupa and Netsuite) from end user and administrative perspective desired
  

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