Accounts Payable Leader
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 240 - 310
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
About the Team
The Procurement organization enables our mission by ensuring every dollar is spent responsibly compliantly and efficiently. As a key part of this function the Accounts Payable (AP) team partners closely with Procurement Operations Accounting Finance and business stakeholders to deliver a seamless scalable payment experience.
About the Role
Youll own AP strategy and jump into day-to-day execution (a true playercoach). Expect to set the roadmap lead people and partners act as the primary escalation point and also personally clear complex exceptions process work during spikes and close the books alongside the team. Youll also partner with hardware and operations stakeholders to define and launch asset management and receiving processes that enable 3-way matchincluding building where these processes dont yet exist.
This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role you will:
End-to-end ownership (Indirect & Direct): intake 2/3-way match exception handling disbursements vendor inquiries and close activities.
Escalation lead: act as the primary escalation point; partner closely with the hiring manager and Accounting to rapidly resolve complex exceptions payment holds and close blockers.
Stand up Direct foundations: partner with hardware and operations stakeholders to define and launch asset management and receiving processes required for 3-way matchincluding building where processes dont yet exist.
Scale for growth: improve cycle time first-pass yield and on-time payment; strengthen PO discipline and receiving alignment; drive root-cause reduction of top exceptions.
Controls & compliance: maintain SOX-aligned approvals and documentation; ensure segregation of duties; lead internal/external audit requests and remediation.
Automation & design: design and implement ERP/AP workflow OCR/approvals and integration hygiene to reduce manual touchpoints; partner with Procurement and Accounting on data quality.
Vendor experience: enable self-service where possible; resolve escalations (price/qty/tax mismatches credits banking); negotiate operational terms with Finance/Procurement partners.
People & partners: manage mentor and develop AP staff; oversee BPO/offshore capacity with clear SLAs/KPIs and a continuous-improvement cadence.
Reporting & comms: own AP dashboards and narrativesaging cycle time exceptions payment forecast cash needs and risk themes; communicate progress to leadership.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Bring 8 years of experience in Accounts Payable or Accounting including 3 years leading teams or programs across both Indirect and Direct spend types.
Have thrived in high-growth scaling environments balancing long-term process design with hands-on execution.
Offer deep technical proficiency in 2-/3-way match PO discipline tax handling (sales/use/VAT) and month-end close (accruals reconciliations).
Have designed and automated AP workflows leveraging ERP/AP automation OCR approval routing and RPAand are willing to get hands-on during volume spikes.
Maintain a strong controls mindset aligned to SOX and can confidently partner with Accounting Procurement FP&A and Supply Chain.
Have hands-on experience with tools like Oracle Fusion Zip Navan VNDLY Brightflag Jira or similar enterprise platformsespecially in integrated environments.
Have proven experience across Indirect and Direct spend ideally in high-growth scaling environmentsyoure comfortable building for the future while handling the demands of today.
About OpenAI
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Key Skills
- Account Payable
- Internal Audit
- Vendor Invoices
- Data Entry
- FAA
- General Ledger Accounting
- Finance
- Accounting
- Excel
- ACH
- SOX
- ERP
- Expense Reports
- Financial statement
- Timely payments
About Company
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