Manager, Accounting Services

About the role

The newly created role of Manager, Accounting Services is seeking a dynamic and highly skilled individual to oversee the end-to-end accounts payable process, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance. This role is perfect for a detail-oriented leader passionate about operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the accounts payable team for North America and collaborate with other internal teams to implement best practices and leverage technology to scale our AP operations.
• Oversee the accounts payable team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement while overseeing day-to-day operations to ensure efficient workflows, accuracy and timeliness in invoice posting and payment processing, correct reporting, and compliant data management.
• Manage accounts payable processing for all US and Canadian entities, including travel and expense reimbursement policies and practices, workflows, and processing benchmarks.
• Ensure timely and accurate month-end close activities related to A/P.
• Analyze and maintain company Travel and Purchasing Card Program including banking applications, policies, and processes.
• Ensure the programs are effectively managed and optimized to meet the company's needs in conjunction with Procurement and Treasury teams as required.
• Partner with key corporate stakeholders (e.g., Procurement, Vendor Management, Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, IT) and operations leadership to ensure alignment of financial processes to corporate objectives.
• Perform general accounting duties, including preparing and reviewing journal entries, subsidiary to general ledger reconciliations, and intercompany account reconciliations.
• Prepare and file annual IRS Forms 1099 and 1096.
• Monitor payment schedules to ensure adherence to payment terms and cash flow optimization.
• Perform additional duties and special projects as needed or assigned.
• Master the AP workflow software to become the departmental subject matter expert to support functional users and the administrator.

Requirements

• U.S Citizenship required
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
• Minimum 6 years of experience in Accounts Payable accounting with a strong understanding of AP processes, fundamentals of procurement and purchase order invoice processing, internal controls, and accounting principles, including in-depth knowledge of accruals and prepaid processes
• Minimum 4 years of experience in a leadership role managing finance operations teams, including accounts payable
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a team
• Excellent people management skills, with a focus on coaching, development, and fostering a cohesive team culture
• Hands-on experience with OCR and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) technologies in an AP environment, including invoice data extraction, validation, automation, implementation, or optimization of these solutions
• Advanced knowledge of general and corporate business practices, general ledger accounting, with a fundamental understanding of treasury practices and US government contracting regulations (FAR, JTR) including DCAA compliance
• Familiarity with international payments, multi-currency transactions, and tax compliance requirements
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments and at all levels of the organization
• Prominent critical thinking and analytical skills, with a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Proven track record of managing and optimizing processes
• Strong Microsoft Office skills including advanced Excel skills with data analysis capabilities
• Ability to travel up to 10% to local office on an as needed basis

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of Deltek Costpoint v.8.1 or higher
• Working experience with Hyland OnBase IAConnect, SAP Concur, MS Power BI preferred

Skills

• Technical and professional knowledge
• Leadership and management skills
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Microsoft Office skills, particularly advanced Excel
• Traveling ability

Benefits

To review Serco benefits please visit: https://careers.serco-na.com/us/en/what-we-offer.