Director, Accounts Payable

About the role

Drive a best-in-class Payables Team & P2P Operations
- Manage day-to-day Payables operations in conjunction with leadership within the upstream P2P processes.
- Lead a team of approximately twenty individuals, optimizing human capital resource structure and roles.
- Manage Payables for up to 13k employee base, and excess of 25k monthly invoices.
- Drive best in class tools, people, process, and policy as for Sunrun’s current size and business needs.

People Leadership & Culture
- Cultivate Transparency & Teamwork: Foster an open culture of collaboration; transparency where team members are encouraged to raise flags, surface process bottlenecks, and work collectively toward solutions.
- Results-Driven Development: Lead, mentor, coach, and scale a high-performing AP team, transforming the organizational culture from transactional processing to analytical exception management driven by clear accountability and ownership.
- Cross-Functional Relationship Management: Act as a true cross-functional leader who actively seeks feedback and input from varying departments (Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, IT) to ensure P2P processes meet diverse business needs without compromising accounting integrity.

AI Innovation, OCR/IDR & Process Automation
- Advanced Document Capture: Leverage and optimize advanced intelligent data capture tools, specifically OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and IDR (Intelligent Document Recognition) invoice readers, to convert manual ingestion into highly automated, touchless processing.

Expense & Corporate Card Governance
- Program Implementation & Ownership: Lead the strategic evaluation, implementation, and scaling of automated employee expense management tools and corporate credit card programs.
- Policy Enforcement: Design and enforce global T& E (Travel and Expense) policies that strike the perfect balance between corporate agility and strict public company compliance, reducing leakage and unauthorized spend.

Risk Management, US GAAP & SOX Compliance
- Internal Controls (SOX 404): Maintain & adapt the SOX control framework across the entire P2P lifecycle and corporate card ecosystem to support our public company requirements.
- Policy Governance: Modernize, develop, and enforce corporate accounting policies and procedures that align with business growth while effectively mitigating risk across all operational business units.
- Audit Readiness: Act as the primary interface for internal and external auditors for all P2P and expense cycles during quarterly reviews and annual financial audits.

Data Analytics & Enterprise Systems
- Advanced Reporting & BI: Leverage enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence tools—specifically “Snowflake” and “Tableau”—to build out automated AP dashboards, track operational metrics, and conduct deep-dive variance analyses.
- Oracle Cloud Optimization: Utilize and optimize “Oracle Cloud ERP” to automate matching, streamline invoice routing, and eliminate manual, redundant touchpoints.

Core Accounting & General Ledger Review
- GL Integration & Reconciliations: Ensure the AP team operates with a strong accounting mindset, owning AP specific account reconciliations and subledger-to-general-ledger balancing in key accounts
- Accrual Ownership: Own the operational design, calculation, and review of critical month-end AP accruals, ensuring no material variances or omissions impact corporate consolidation.
- Upstream Data Integrity: Partner closely with teams across Inventory, Project Costing, Operations, S&M and G&A to ensure upstream data integrity, preventing coding errors that trigger downstream variances or material misstatements.
- Month-End Alignment: Manage the AP month-end close timeline rigorously to ensure flawless and timely data flow into the general accounting and corporate consolidation teams.

Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum of 15+ years of progressive accounting and accounts payable experience, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership/people-management capacity.
• Leadership Style: Proven experience leading large teams with a focus on building a cohesive, collaborative, transparent, and high-performance team environment.
• OCR/IDR & Tech Mastery: Proven, hands-on experience implementing or utilizing OCR/IDR invoice reader tools alongside AI/advanced automation within an AP/P2P function to achieve measurable efficiency results.
• Implementation Expertise: Proven experience successfully implementing and managing an enterprise-wide expense management tool (Ramp a plus) and a corporate card program.
• Public Company Expertise: Prior experience within a publicly traded company is required. Deep technical fluency in US GAAP accounting and SOX controls is key.
• Systems & Data Fluency: Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud ERP is preferred. Strong experience with advanced reporting tools, ideally Snowflake and Tableau, is preferred. Proven experience performing month-end close, complex accruals, account reconciliations, and general ledger activities in addition to traditional payables operations. Familiarity with Salesforce (SFDC) is a plus. Strong foundational understanding of accounting mechanics within capital-intensive environments.
• Influence & Collaboration Skills: Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to collaborate with, influence, and gather consensus from cross-functional groups with varying needs.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting preferred