Global Director - Accounts Payable and Procurement
Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Procurement, or related field preferred.
- 8+ years of procurement, AP, procure-to-pay, shared services, accounting operations, or finance process leadership experience.
- Experience working in a multi-country or multi-entity environment.
- Experience with ERP systems and procurement workflows.
- Experience with purchasing controls and vendor master governance.
- Experience with workflow automation and internal controls.
- Experience with acquisition integration.
- Proven ability to drive process improvement across a global or complex organization.
Responsibilities
- Own the global procure-to-pay process, including procurement intake, purchase requisitions, vendor sourcing support, purchase order governance, vendor onboarding, invoice receipt, coding, approval routing, payment runs, exception handling, vendor inquiries, and AP month-end procedures.
- Establish global procurement and AP policies, procedures, controls, service levels, approval matrices, purchasing thresholds, preferred vendor requirements, and process metrics across all countries and shared services resources.
- Partner with Legal, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, IT, operations, and local finance teams to ensure vendor compliance, proper approvals, tax documentation, payment accuracy, purchasing discipline, contract visibility, and system alignment.
- Lead procurement and AP process centralization and automation, including reducing manual effort, purchasing workflows, vendor portals, OCR, procurement intake tools, T&E integrations, purchase order matching, and ERP-enabled controls.
- Manage shared services performance for routine procurement and AP processing, including work queues, productivity, defect rates, aging, turnaround times, purchase order compliance, and escalation management.
- Oversee the global corporate card and expense management processes, including card administration, approval and spending controls, transaction reconciliation, policy compliance, and timely processing of employee expenses.
- Support acquisition integration by mapping legacy procurement and AP processes, migrating vendors, aligning approval workflows, onboarding acquired entities to company policies, and stabilizing purchasing and payment operations.
- Maintain strong controls over vendor selection, vendor master data, segregation of duties, bank detail changes, duplicate payments, fraud prevention, purchase approvals, payment approvals, contract support, and documentation retention.