Senior Accounts Payable Manager

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          About the role

          The Senior Accounts Payable Manager is responsible for leading the accounts payable function, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant processing of invoices and payments while maintaining strong internal controls and compliance with university policies and state guidelines. This role oversees accounts payable professionals, ensures payment issues are resolved, and drives process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy. The manager collaborates closely with Procurement, Central Finance, and departmental professionals to support financial reporting, cash flow management, and audit requirements. Success in this role requires strong leadership, analytical skills, attention to detail, and a commitment to delivering excellent customer service to both internal and external stakeholders.

          Responsibilities

          • Oversee all accounts payable activities including invoice and payment processing, customer service, and performance monitoring.
          • Supervise, coach, and develop team of accounts payable professionals, including workload management, and performance evaluations.
          • Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures using a risk‑based approach to ensure strong internal controls and compliance with university policies and state guidelines.
          • Establish, monitor, and report on service level expectations including invoice cycle times, backlog, aged invoices, and other key performance indicators.
          • Review third-party reporting related to policy compliance, duplicate payments, and spend activity to identify potential control risks, unusual trends, or exceptions and coordinate follow‑up as needed.
          • Serve as primary point of escalation for supplier disputes, complex issues, and departmental concerns related to accounts payable.
          • Manage administration of business procurement and travel credit cards including issuance of new cards, credit limits, inactivating cards and card reconciliation/payment.
          • Collaborate with Procurement and other departments to improve procure-to-pay processes and ensure timely and accurate invoice processing and payment administration.
          • Support Central Finance in month-end and year-end close activities related to accounts payable, including account reconciliations.
          • Manage accounts payable related audit requirements.
          • Complete 1099 reporting for Kansas Bridging Plan participants.
          • Serve as Workday accounts payable module business owner, ensuring alignment with university needs and policies, and participating in system upgrades and enhancements.
          • Develop and deliver training materials, guides, and workshops on accounts payable policies and procedures.
          • Serve as a trusted business advisor to campus partners by acting as an industry expert in accounts payable best practices.

          Required Qualifications

          • Five years of progressive accounts payable or accounting experience. Relevant education may be substituted on a year for year basis.
          • Three years of experience supervising, training, and developing teams.
          • Experience working in a large, complex organizational setting.
          • Experience with automated, high-volume accounts payable environments.
          • Experience improving or standardizing processes through workflow tools, OCR, AI, and electronic invoicing.

          Preferred Qualifications

          • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business, Management, Economics, or related field.
          • Experience applying Sarbanes‑Oxley (SOX) internal control principles or working in a SOX‑regulated or audited environment.
          • Accounting knowledge: Understanding of debits and credits, general ledger accounts, accruals, and month-end close activities.
          • Financial systems: Experience with ERP systems such as Workday, Oracle, SAP, Banner, PeopleSoft, or Dynamics.

          Skills

          • Problem‑solving
          • Decision‑making
          • Analytical thinking
          • Accuracy
          • Detail oriented
          • Deadline management
          • Multi‑tasking
          • Communication
          • Customer service
          • Collaboration
          • Microsoft Excel
          • Reconciliations
          • Data analysis

          Benefits

          • Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan.
          • Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary