Cash Processing Manager

Job Description

The Manager, Cash Processing provides strategic and operational leadership for Accounts Payable, Expense Management, and Accounts Receivable Cash Receipts across AltaGas Corporate and Midstream entities in Canada and the United States. The role is accountable for accurate, controlled, and timely service delivery while advancing process improvement, performance management, stakeholder service, and employee engagement.

This position leads a multi-level team, serves as the senior escalation point for complex operational and policy matters, and communicates performance, risks, compliance results, and improvement initiatives to senior leadership. The Manager also performs final review and approval of Chart of Accounts change requests and acts as the primary Cash Processing representative for Project Fusion and the implementation of Oracle Fusion.

What You Will Do

·    Lead the Accounts Payable, Expense Management, and AR Cash Receipts functions, ensuring invoices, payments, expense activities, and customer cash receipts are processed accurately and on time.

·    Establish, monitor, and improve Cash Processing KPIs; identify root causes of performance gaps and lead initiatives that improve efficiency, service, accuracy, and control effectiveness.

·    Oversee cash application and unapplied cash resolution, and provide preliminary review and guidance on potential AR write-offs and allowances.

·    Provide governance over Concur and the corporate purchasing card program, including escalated expense matters, violation severity, and card suspension decisions.

·    Make or guide decisions involving early payments, vendor payment terms, vendor master data processes, complex invoices, reconciliations, and high-risk operational issues.

·    Ensure adherence to SOX controls and support internal and external audit requirements.

·    Perform final review and approval of Chart of Accounts change requests.

·    Lead, coach, and develop 5 direct and 12 indirect reports, including two AP Team Leads and two contractors; make staffing and resource-allocation decisions and address escalated employee matters.

·    Build strong relationships with Supply Chain, Treasury, Midstream Finance, Corporate Accounting, Tax, auditors, field administrators, P-Card holders, banks, vendors, and senior leaders.

·    Prepare and deliver clear reporting on KPIs, compliance trends, projects, process improvements, and emerging risks.

Project Fusion and Oracle Fusion

Serve as the primary Cash Processing business representative and subject matter lead for Project Fusion. This includes frequent participation in design and implementation activities and accountability for ensuring the future state supports operational, financial, control, and business requirements.

·    Represent AP, Expense Management, and AR Cash Receipts requirements in project meetings, workshops, testing, and implementation planning.

·    Review and influence Oracle Fusion configuration and future-state process decisions affecting Cash Processing.

·    Coordinate business validation, data cleansing, data readiness, implementation activities, and team preparedness.

·    Make or coordinate vendor data management decisions and identify impacts to processes and controls.

·    Keep the Cash Processing team informed, support adoption, resolve implementation issues, and escalate material risks or decisions.

What You Bring

Required

·    At least 5 years of experience in Cash Processing, Accounts Payable, or a related finance operations environment.

·    Strong Accounts Payable knowledge, including end-to-end invoice and payment processing.

·    People leadership experience with demonstrated ability to coach employees, manage performance, and lead operational teams.

·    Hands-on JDE experience in a financial processing environment.

·    Experience administering, owning, or overseeing SOX controls.

·    Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills, particularly for complex, unusual, or high-risk matters.

·    Demonstrated ability to identify, prioritize, and implement process improvements.

·    Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, customer-service, and Microsoft Office skills.

·    Ability to manage competing priorities, operational deadlines, and significant transaction volumes.

Preferred

·    CPA designation or another relevant accounting accreditation.

·    Oracle Fusion experience or experience with a comparable modern ERP.

·    Experience supporting a major ERP implementation or finance transformation.

·    Experience overseeing Expense Management, corporate card, cash application, vendor master data, or banking and payment processes.

Why work at AltaGas?

AltaGas is a North American energy infrastructure company with a focus on owning and operating assets that provide affordable energy to our customers. AltaGas assets include Washington Gas/WGL, SEMCO, and Petrogas. Our talented team, nearly 3,000 strong, leverages the strength of our assets and expertise along the energy value chain to connect customers with premier energy solutions – from the well sites of upstream producers to the doorsteps of homes and businesses to new markets around the world.

We deliver clean and affordable natural gas to approximately 1.7 million customers’ homes and businesses through regulated natural gas distribution utilities across four jurisdictions in the United States and two regulated natural gas storage utilities in the United States. Learn more about our team, vision, and strategy.

To learn more about our mission:  https://youtu.be/k1mrKDdsYW8?si=y1k3NOyHxgf4emdL

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For Canadian hires: AltaGas hires personnel on the basis of job-related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.