Manager, Accounts Payable

Resonance CX Partners identifies and validates customer-focused opportunities for experienced professionals. This role is with Sol de Janeiro, a globally recognized beauty brand inspired by Brazil’s beauty rituals, known for transformative textures, transportive fragrances, and clinically proven results. Headquartered in New York, Sol de Janeiro operates teams in Paris, London, and Germany, and has earned accolades including TIME100’s 2024 Most Influential Companies and Fast Company’s 2024 World’s Most Innovative Companies.

About the role

Sol de Janeiro seeks a highly motivated and results-oriented Accounts Payable Manager to lead day-to-day AP operations and corporate card programs. This role ensures accurate, timely, and compliant processing of supplier invoices and payments while managing AP workflows, developing team members, and maintaining strong internal controls. The Accounts Payable Manager will partner with Procurement, Treasury, Supply Chain, and Accounting, and drive process improvement, system enhancements, and ERP transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily accounts payable operations to ensure accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices, expense reports, and payments.
• Oversee the corporate card function to ensure approved business expenses are submitted and processed in SAP Concur.
• Review and approve supplier invoices in NetSuite, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP CIM (Ariba), ensuring compliance with company policies and approval workflows.
• Supervise invoice workflows, including purchase order matching, exception management, and resolution of invoice discrepancies.
• Manage and review weekly payment runs (ACH and Wire Transfers) in Coupa Treasury, ensuring accuracy and adherence to payment schedules.
• Partner with Procurement to support supplier onboarding, maintenance, and verification procedures.
• Monitor AP operational KPIs, identify operational risks, and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for AP inquiries from suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Support month-end and year-end close activities, including AP accruals, account reconciliations, and audit support.
• Lead AP readiness activities during ERP implementations.
• Develop, document, standardize, and enforce AP policies, procedures, and internal controls to support a scalable and audit-ready control environment.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, standardization, operational efficiency, and reduction of manual processes while maintaining strong financial controls.
• Act as the Accounts Payable functional lead for ERP implementations, system upgrades, and process transformation initiatives, ensuring business requirements, testing, training, and process adoption are successfully executed.
• Train, mentor, and provide guidance to AP Specialists and other team members, fostering professional development and high performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Accounting, Treasury, Supply Chain, FP&A, and business partners.
• Handle special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of accounts payable processes, internal controls, and best practices.
• 5+ years of progressive accounts payable experience, including experience in a management capacity.
• Hands-on experience using SAP S/4HANA, SAP CIM (Ariba), NetSuite, and Coupa Treasury.
• Experience managing AP functions in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
• Experience managing off-shore shared services.
• Experience with ERP transitions and system implementations.
• Experience as a key player in strategic process transformation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify process inefficiencies and recommend solutions.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, Power Query preferred).