Accounts Payable Director

FORTUNE 500 COMPANY

Accounts Payable Director (Jersey City, NJ)

Client is looking for an Accounts Payable (AP) Director in Jersey City. The role is responsible for maintaining customer interface via email, phone calls and/or any other means of notification of questions or issues with invoice processing. The Supervisor will ensure that the department operations meet customer services targets, rigorous quality standards and comply with client policies and procedures, generally accepted accounting principles and regulatory requirements.

Essential Functions
• Supervise approximately 4-7 AP employees while demonstrating the ability to plan, schedule, and direct day-to-day activities of union staff.
• Works closely with vendors and internal customer to resolve various invoicing issues.
• Gathers, analyses, prepares and summarizes metric information to manage and monitor the success of the organization.
• Collaborates with functional/department subject matter experts in implementing process improvements within the organization to reduce the number of customer issues or streamline our communication with vendors/customers.
• Responds in a professional manner to all inquiries, providing the highest level of customer service.
• Works on issues of limited scope.
• Receives assignments as objectives with the processes necessary to fulfill those goals.
• Requires moderate planning and direction setting.
• Monitors daily operations of a team.
Develops and directs work schedules and monitors work flow to achieve established goals and objectives.
• Develops and manages to customer service metrics
• Ensures that credit hold issues are resolved in a timely manner and understands when it is necessary to escalate the situation
• Responsible for recommending changes in guidelines, procedures and policies.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of Accounts Payable experience
• 4-year degree or 4 additional years of equivalent experience
• Supervisory experience
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Knowledge of the procurement to payment processes
• Understanding of generally accepted accounting principles, workflow analysis and internal accounting controls
• Familiarity with software applications, databases, and spreadsheets including Visio, Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and mainframe systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (BS or BA) with emphasis in Accounting, Finance
• Sarbanes Oxley and Six Sigma experience
• Previous direct supervisory experience in an organized labor environment
• Involvement in systems implementation and/or integration

candidates should possess:
1)excellent communication skills
2)Ability to collaborate
3)in depth knowledge of AP

Degree is REQUIRED. Large ERP system knowledge, experience within a hi volume payables department, Process improvement, and team building

Paying 120-150K + bonus

Qualifications

• 120-150K + bonus

Additional Information

Send resumes: tonyv@clarkdavis.com