Supervisor, Accounts Payable

Job Summary

The Accounts Payable Supervisor oversees the full life cycle of North American Accounts Payable operations, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant processing of vendor invoices and payments. This role provides daily leadership and direction to the Accounts Payable team, fostering a high‑performance culture focused on efficiency, accountability, and continuous improvement.

This role will require a strong finance professional who has a thorough understanding of maintaining a continuous improvement mindset and ability to proactively identify, review, and implement process and system improvements and ensure objectives are achieved. The successful candidate will be detailed and deadline-oriented, operational, and can operate in a fast-paced, complex, and collaborative environment.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Accounts Payable (85%)

• Supervise the Accounts Payable department staff & activities, including:
  • Participate in hiring, training, mentoring & coaching
  • Develop and evaluate employees’ performance and workload
  • Determine work priorities
  • Ensure timely and accurate completion of deliverables
• Analyze invoices processed for accuracy and compliance with internal control requirements for the Purchase-to-Pay process
• Execute routine vendor payment transactions, in collaboration with the cash management & sourcing departments
• Perform monthly journal entries & account reconciliations for A/P related accounts
• Monitor aging of open AP and the GRIR accounts
• 1099 annual process and tax related matters
• Unclaimed property process to ensure adherence to company and state guidelines
• Escheatment review and process
• Assist with the development and implementation of process improvements at the direction of the Senior Manager, Accounts Payable
• Oversee vendor inquiries regarding payments & other related matters
• Investigate, research & resolve root cause of any processing issues in the department
• Assist with monthly department metrics reporting and generation of process improvement or efficiency ideas
• Foster positive relationships with internal departments and external vendor base
• Implement policy or procedural changes at the direction of the Senior Manager, Accounts Payable
• Serve as backup to the Senior Manager, Accounts Payable for vendor master maintenance and other responsibilities

• All other tasks and/or duties as assigned.

Education and Experience Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting or related field, highly desired
• 3 - 5 years of overall accounting experience required

Ideal candidate:

• Accounts Payable experience in a high growth company
• Ability to drive continuous improvement
• Strong sense of ownership and willingness to tackle challenges in a continuously changing environment
• Ability to think Globally

Required Skills

• Strong project management skills
• Willingness to learn new skills
• Ability to prioritize workload in a dynamic environment
• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Perform root-cause analysis at both strategic and functional level
• Able to apply generally accepted accounting principles to AP processes
• Proficiency in QAD, SAP, OnBase/Brainware and RateLinxs is strongly desired
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills and working knowledge of other MS Office products

Work Environment:

Working conditions are normal for an office environment.

This position will be hybrid and will be onsite Tuesday through Thursday in our Lake Forest, CA office.

The annual salary for this role is $71,033-$111,623.

The final pay rate offered to the successful candidate will depend on experience, skill level, and other qualifications for the role.  Benefits and additional compensation offered for this position are

• Paid time off, including sick and vacation days
• 12 paid holidays
• Job-protected leave benefits in accordance with applicable law
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance

• Supplemental critical illness, hospital, accident, and indemnity available for purchase

• Health and flexible savings accounts subject to eligibility requirements
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions and matching subject to plan eligibility requirements

All benefits and additional compensation are governed by applicable Company policies and plans as they currently exist and may be amended in the future.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact AAAR.Recruiting@assaabloy.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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