Job description
Position Summary: The Accounts Payable Manager establishes financial status by developing and implementing systems for paying, analyzing, verifying, and reporting financial information, and managing staff.
Responsibilities
- Achieves accounting operational objectives by contributing accounting information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
- Records all accounts payable transactions.
- Follows accounting and tax laws and standards.
- Investigate accounts payable issues as needed.
- Build relationships with vendors and colleagues.
- Ensure an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year end close.
- Ensure the timely reporting of all monthly financial information.
- Ensure the accurate and timely processing of positive pay transactions.
- Ensure the monthly and quarterly Bank Compliance activities are performed in a timely and accurate manner.
- Supports budget and forecasting activities.
- Collaborate with the other finance department staff to support overall department goals and objectives.
- Monitors and analyzes department work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
- Advises staff regarding the handling of non-routine reporting transactions.
- Responds to inquiries from the Director of Operations, and other finance and firm wide managers regarding financial results, special reporting requests and the like.
- Ensure a clean and timely year end audit.
- Assist in the development and implementation of new procedures and features to enhance the workflow of the department.
- Provide training to new and existing staff as needed.
- Handle personnel issues relating to staff conflicts, absenteeism, performance issues, etc.
- Work with each direct report to establish goals and objectives for each year and monitor and advise on the progress to enhance the professional development of staff.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration or finance, CPA Required
- Must have a minimum of 8-10 years’ supervisory experience in the accounts payable area
- Must demonstrate competency in both oral and written communications internally/externally at all levels of employee.
- Must work independently and as a team player to achieve both personal and team goals and meet deadlines as required.
- Must possess strong analytical skills.
- Must display a positive and proactive leadership attitude, strong organizational skills, and always possess the ability to prioritize and multitask.
- Performance Expectations and Preferred Skills
- The successful incumbent will have intermediate/advanced skills in Microsoft office suite, (MS Word and MS Excel), Outlook, Office 365
- Knowledge of SAP and QuickBooks.
- Strong interpersonal, supervisory and customer service skills
- Can work autonomously
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Industrial experience is a plus
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