Senior Manager Accounts Payable

Who we are:

Visual Comfort & Co. is the premier resource for decorative and architectural lighting, ceiling fans, system controls and automated shading solutions from the most influential designers in the world. We are proud to offer a market-leading range of premium products across categories, styles and price points, remaining committed to beautiful design and, above all, a world-class customer experience.

This role will serve as the process owner while overseeing multi-regional operations encompassing internal team members. The role is accountable for ensuring end-to-end process and operational excellence across Vendor Master Data, Purchase Requisition/Orders, Invoice Processing, Disbursements, Vendor Services, Corporate Card programs, Escheatment, and related taxes, including 1099 reporting. This position requires close collaboration with stakeholders across Supply Chain, IT, Accounting operations, and other functional operation teams to drive improvements in working capital, operational efficiency, and stakeholder experience.


Visual Comfort Offers:

• Work-Life Balance: Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm with 10% travel
• Training & Development: A comprehensive and structured training program, complemented by ongoing education and opportunities for career advancement.
• Paid Time Off: Generous vacation accrual and paid time off policies.
• Holidays: 7 paid holidays per year, in addition to 2 floating holidays.
• Compensation: Competitive compensation plan
• Health Benefits: Visual Comfort pays the majority of employees medical, vision, and dental coverage, available starting the first of the month following your start date.
• Insurance: Company-provided life insurance and short-term disability coverage.
• Retirement: 401(k) plan with company matching up to 4%, available beginning the first of the month following your hire date.

How success is defined:

• Manages and executes the Accounts Payable function including the activities of the AP processing staff engaged in payment processing (check, ACH and wires), transaction validation with authority levels and coding, commissions and royalties payment processing to designer and sales representatives, and vendor relationship management.
• Lead the PTP team in applying sound financial analysis and management, strong business acumen, and effective internal controls to ensure accurate, timely, and GAAP compliant transactional processing. Ensuring end-to-end efficiency, standardization, and alignment with business objectives across all regions. Continuously review and optimize PTP processes through automation, simplification, and adoption of best practices. Drive performance improvement through benchmarking, data analysis, and the implementation of RPA and AI technologies to enhance AP operations.
• Timely and accurate processing of vendor invoices including functional expenses and merchandise/product, including the 3-way match discrepancy process in partnership with Purchasing and Warehouse/Distribution leadership. Monitor the invoice processing activities and proactively manage any issues impacting the accuracy or timeliness of vendor payments.
• Coordinates with accounting team members to provide required documentation and analysis for audits. Manages monthly closing of AP and posting of month-end information including capital expenditures and unrecorded invoice accruals.
• Lead initiatives related to process documentation, cross-training, benchmarking, and key metric reporting. Own and evolve global PTP policies and documentation, supporting ERP enhancements and changing business needs including advancement of potential business process centralization and/or optimization.
• Manage the expense reporting system (Concur) and corporate credit card program in collaboration with accounting operations.
• Act as the "face" of the Accounts Payable team and exhibit a high degree of customer service for internal customers/business partners across the organization. Resolve any performance issues / challenges that are escalated for resolution both within Visual Comfort and external suppliers. Develop and evaluate employee performance and workloads, determine priorities, and implement changes to improve productivity and increase efficiency. * Lead, coach, train and develop a high-performing geographically distributed AP team, fostering a culture of accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Ad hoc requests and other projects from senior management (e.g. acquisition integrations, strategic initiatives, funding/capital matters, etc.).
• Works effectively with others in a team environment to accomplish organizational goals and to identify and resolve problems.
• Exhibits and adheres to the established Visual Comfort Company Values.
• Must demonstrate commitment, dependabili