Manager, Accounts Payable

About the Role

We are seeking a Manager, Accounts Payable to lead Accounts Payable and Expense operations. This role will manage individual contributors and may oversee team leads while ensuring invoices, payments, reconciliations, tax reporting, and employee expenses are processed accurately and on time.

The Manager, Accounts Payable will own team performance and execution while driving process improvements, automation, and reporting. You will work across Procurement, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Finance, and other teams to resolve complex issues, strengthen controls, and improve the procure-to-pay experience.

The ideal candidate is a reliable people leader who uses business context and data to make decisions, advises stakeholders, and delivers measurable operational improvements.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop AP and Expense team members.
• Manage team performance, staffing, workload allocation, and day-to-day execution.
• Build a high-performing team with clear expectations, strong accountability, and consistent results.
• Oversee invoice processing, purchase order matching, coding, approvals, payments, vendor inquiries, and employee expense operations.
• Ensure AP and Expense activities are completed accurately, on time, and in accordance with company policies and controls.
• Own balance sheet reconciliations, AP close activities, accrual support, aging reviews, and related reporting.
• Lead annual 1099 reporting and support other AP-related tax and compliance requirements.
• Serve as the primary AP contact for internal and external audits, ensuring requested documentation is accurate and complete.
• Monitor unmatched invoices, open purchase orders, payment exceptions, duplicate payments, credits, and other outstanding items.
• Identify inefficiencies across AP and Expenses and lead process improvements that increase accuracy, efficiency, and scalability;
• Drive automation and AI initiatives related to invoice processing, matching, approvals, reconciliations, exception handling, and reporting.
• Develop reporting and insights using tools such as Zip, Ramp, Tableau, ERP systems, and other operational data sources.
• Establish and monitor performance metrics, including processing volume, aging, cycle times, exception rates, and on-time payments.
• Partner across Procurement, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Finance, and business teams and lead cross-functional initiatives when needed.
• Evaluate complex issues using business context, advise team members and stakeholders, and recommend practical solutions.
• Escalate risks and issues that could affect costs, controls, service levels, or short-term business goals.

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years of experience in accounts payable, Expenses, accounting operations, or procure-to-pay, including people-management experience.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage performance, and deliver reliable results.
• Experience owning and improving an operational area with measurable impact.
• Strong knowledge of invoice processing, purchase orders, payments, expense management, reconciliations, accruals, and the monthly close.
• Experience managing 1099 reporting and supporting internal and external audits.
• Experience using procurement or finance platforms such as Zip, NetSuite, and Ramp.
• Sound judgment when addressing diverse challenges, applying policies, and escalating financial or operational risks.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and reliability in a high-volume environment.
• A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

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The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: 94000 - 125000 USD