Accounts Payable Manager

Salary Range: 100000 to 120000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Why We Like This

• Strategic foundation building: Focus on strengthening accounting processes across key portfolio companies before scaling further, ensuring a solid base for growth.
• Leadership with influence: Opportunity to lead and standardize AP teams across multiple regions, balancing local nuances with enterprise-wide efficiency.
• Cross-functional impact: Involvement in treasury coordination and cash flow management, adding a strategic layer beyond traditional AP responsibilities.

Requirements

• Leadership in Distributed Teams: Proven ability to lead and influence teams across multiple locations, driving standardization and consistency without heavy-handed control—crucial for managing dispersed finance functions.
• Construction Industry Experience: Deep understanding of construction AP processes, especially "paid when paid" contracts, essential for navigating the infrastructure and transportation electrical services sector.
• Treasury & Cash Flow Coordination: Experience integrating treasury functions with AP management to optimize cash flow across multiple portfolio companies, balancing payables and collections in a complex environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage Accounts Payable Operations: Own the end-to-end AP cycle across multiple regions, ensuring invoices and payments are processed on time and vendor relationships stay solid, all while navigating construction-specific compliance and company policies.
• Team Leadership and Development: Lead and develop a distributed team of AP specialists, driving process standardization and collaboration to boost efficiency and consistency enterprise-wide.
• Process Improvement and Standardization: Drive continuous improvement of AP workflows and controls to optimize operations, support treasury cash flow management, and align with broader finance goals.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Partner closely with treasury, regional controllers, and project managers to align AP activities with cash flow, collections, and project billing—especially under "paid when paid" contract terms.
• Reporting and Compliance Support: Deliver accurate AP data and insights for month-end close, audit readiness, and financial reporting, aiding the scaling and integration of acquired businesses within the portfolio.