Accounting Operations Manager, Payables and Settlements
About the role
The Accounting Operations Manager, Payables and Settlements owns Detmar's payables, driver and owner-operator settlement, payroll-coordination, carrier-payment, and related accounting-operations cadence across affiliated entities. This is a process-ownership and control role. The position is responsible for converting approved operating activity into accurate, timely, and properly controlled payments while protecting segregation of duties, legal-entity accuracy, close quality, and the experience of drivers, owner-operations, carriers, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will direct high-volume processing performed by distributed support resources while retaining Houston ownership of exceptions, sensitive information, final review, communication, and accounting judgment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered
- Five to ten years of progressive accounting operations, accounts payable, payroll, settlements, procure-to-pay, or related experience
- Demonstrated ownership of a recurring payment, payroll, settlement, or high-volume accounting process with firm deadlines and meaningful control requirements
- Strong understanding of invoice coding, approvals, vendor and carrier controls, accruals, payment preparation, payroll or settlement reconciliations, and period cutoff
- Experience leading, training, reviewing, or coordinating accounting staff or distributed support resources
Pay
Salary: $95,000 to $120,000. Short-term incentive target of 10% of base salary, tied to company and individual performance.