Overview
This role involves managing and directing the daily operations of the accounts payable (AP) department to ensure accurate and timely disbursement of funds through various payment methods. The position focuses on maintaining strong financial records, optimizing cash flow, and producing key financial metrics to drive process improvements.
The manager partners closely with Supply Chain and Finance to safeguard internal controls and improve cross-functional workflows. Strong relationship-building skills are required to work effectively with clinical leaders, vendors, and other strategic partners.
Responsibilities
- Supervise the accounts payable and vendor master functions, including:
- Interviewing and recommending hiring of new staff
- Coordinating training and development
- Collaborating with leadership to assign departmental team annual SMART goals
- Evaluating staff performance
- Recommending personnel actions to support a high-performing team model
- Providing timely guidance, coaching, and feedback to team members
- Lead and champion strategic change initiatives to optimize workflows and modernize financial processes.
- Analyze future business change drivers to scale and adapt the department’s operational needs for organizational growth.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders during large-scale enterprise transitions.
- Lead all areas of the AP process, including end-to-end process change management through collaboration and influence across cross-functional groups.
- Ensure process improvement, best practices, and opportunities for streamlining workflows are identified and considered.
- Manage the day-to-day AP process, including:
- Purchase order (PO) matching
- Invoice processing
- Expense coding
- Payment issuance
- Account reconciliations
Requirements
- At least 5 years related experience required
- At least 5 years experience managing and conducting the processing of Accounts Payable for a large organization required
- At least 5 years advanced proficiency in large enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle, or Infor Cloudsuite required
- At least 5 years proven experience implementing or managing automated invoice processing workflows, OCR tools, or AI-related technology required
- At least 5 years strong knowledge of healthcare-specific tax guidelines, 1099 reporting, and HIPAA regulations required
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
Compensation & Benefits
- Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years
- 4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure
- Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)
- Caregiver Leave
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
Location
Equal Opportunity
As an equal opportunity employer, the organization does not discriminate against employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran or military status, disability, or genetic information or any other Federal or State legally-protected status or class. This applies to all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfer pay, training, discipline, workforce adjustments, termination, employee benefits, and any other employment-related activity.