Global Director - Accounts Payable
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CAIFinance operations
Listing location: Ireland, Ireland; Workplace type: RemoteFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of procurement, AP, procure-to-pay, shared services, accounting operations, or finance process leadership experience
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of experience in procurement, AP, procure-to-pay, shared services, accounting operations, or finance process leadership.
- Have experience in a multi-country or multi-entity environment.
- Bring experience with ERP systems.
- Bring experience with procurement workflows and purchasing controls.
- Bring experience with vendor master governance and workflow automation.
- Bring experience with internal controls and acquisition integration.
- Have experience driving process improvement across a global or complex organization; this is highly desirable.
- A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Procurement, or a related field is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Establish global procurement and AP policies, procedures, controls, service levels, approval matrices, purchasing thresholds, preferred vendor requirements, and process metrics.
- Own the global procure-to-pay process from procurement intake and purchase requisitions through vendor onboarding, invoice processing, payment runs, exceptions, vendor inquiries, and AP month-end procedures.
- Partner with Legal, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, IT, operations, and local finance teams on vendor compliance, approvals, tax documentation, payment accuracy, purchasing discipline, contract visibility, and system alignment.
- Lead procurement and AP process centralization and automation, including purchasing workflows, vendor portals, OCR, procurement intake tools, T&E integrations, purchase order matching, and ERP-enabled controls.
- Manage shared services performance for procurement and AP processing, including work queues, productivity, defect rates, aging, turnaround times, purchase order compliance, and escalations.
- Oversee global corporate card and expense management processes, including card administration, spending controls, transaction reconciliation, policy compliance, and employee expense processing.
- Support acquisition integration by mapping legacy processes, migrating vendors, aligning approval workflows, onboarding acquired entities to company policies, and stabilizing purchasing and payment operations.
- Maintain controls over vendor selection and master data, segregation of duties, bank detail changes, duplicate payments, fraud prevention, approvals, contract support, and documentation retention.
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