Accounts Payable Team Lead

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Job Summary

Serves as a team lead in maintaining effective work activities of Accounts Payable Associates within established company accounting policies. Performs and verifies invoice processing, expense coding, voucher preparation, and the audit and issuance of payment checks. Maintains vendor compliance and acceptable customer service levels.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities

• Provides support and guidance to Accounts Payable Associates in order to ensure quality output, timely invoice payments, and compliance with company policies and practices.
• Monitors and maintains department systems to ensure effectiveness of daily activities and compliance with company policies and standards. Performs data entry, verification, and research within department systems.
• Ensures associates comply to company and departmental guidelines for invoice and account coding. Reconciles and researches customer information and processes account transactions accurately and timely. Interprets proper procedures for associates as necessary.
• Works with management and provides instruction to offshore teams regarding daily work. Responds to escalations and clarifications. Performs data verification audits for onshore and offshore processes for accuracy and quality on a daily and weekly basis.
• Performs data verification audits to ensure all business risks are anticipated, recognized, and appropriately managed.
• Performs root cause analyses and assesses the effectiveness of current processes to develop and communicate process improvements to management.
• Assists management in ensuring service level agreements are met at month and quarter close.
• Supports management with information preparation for analyses and reporting as needed.

Nature and Scope

• Problems are typically difficult and/or high impact. Troubleshoots complex support or operational problems for junior level associates.
• Under limited supervision, independently resolves issues and applies a variety of methods to develop customized solutions. May lead the daily operations of a department or team. Work typically involves infrequent review of output by a supervisor or direct customers of the process.
• Assists with supervisory duties but does not have hiring/firing authority. Trains, delegates tasks, and reviews the work of junior level associates.

Work Environment

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• No travel required.

Education and Experience

• Technical certification or associate degree may be required in some areas. Generally 7+ years of experience in area of responsibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Accounts Payable experience.
• Basic knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles.
• Basic to Intermediate Excel skills.
• Oracle A/P and Coupa experience is highly desired.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Quick learner.
• Solid track record of working independently.
• Strong problem solver.

This position may be remote, or hybrid based on location. Eligible candidates residing in the greater Atlanta area will be asked to work two days a week in our Doraville, GA Field Support Center.

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