Director, Accounts Payable

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Define the AP strategy and multi-year roadmap; establish operating models, governance, service standards, metrics, and performance expectations.
• Lead regional AP managers and operational teams, strengthening accountability, consistency, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Advise Finance leadership on strategy, transformation, organizational design, risk, controls, and investment decisions.
• Ensure accurate and timely invoice processing and payments, improve exception handling, and maintain controls and audit preparedness.
• Lead continuous improvement and cross-functional Source-to-Pay transformation with Finance, Procurement, Treasury, Tax, Technology, and business teams.
• Align with Procurement Operations on purchase orders, supplier onboarding, invoice matching, workflow, data integrity, and governance.

Experience and qualifications

• More than 10 years in AP, shared services, finance operations, or related Source-to-Pay work.
• More than five years directing global or regional AP teams, including managers or distributed teams.
• Experience directing enterprise AP strategy, governance, operating models, and performance in a global shared-service or matrixed environment.
• Strong knowledge of Source-to-Pay workflows, AP controls, regulatory adherence, and risk oversight.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation, standardization, automation, organizational change, transitions, shared-service evolution, or redesign.
• Ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders and lead complex initiatives.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and financial competence; able to translate operational metrics into enterprise decisions.
• Experience with ERP, workflow, invoice automation, analytics, and AI-enabled finance technologies.

Compensation and benefits

• Compensation is determined by factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and location; specific details are discussed during recruitment.
• Depending on role and location, benefits may include bonuses, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance, and local benefits.