Senior Manager, Accounts Payable

1 month ago

Middleton, United States Spectrum Brands, Inc Full time

Division Information

Spectrum Brands’ global enabling functions, including Finance, Legal, IT, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and Commercial Operations, provide enterprise-wide strategy, structure, and common processes to deliver the knowledge and expertise that helps our businesses grow. Enabling functions may operate as a center-led global team, providing a central strategy, structure, and standards; or as business partner teams, with resources embedded within the businesses to deliver business unit-specific results.


Job Summary

The Senior Manager, Accounts Payable will be responsible for managing the Accounts Payable functions and processes in a professional and knowledgeable manner. This position will direct and oversee the daily management of staff and processes, including full cycle accounts payable: invoice processing, invoice payment, analytics, reconciliations, and reporting.

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 team-oriented environment.


This position can be in either St. Louis, MO or Middleton, WI.


Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Oversee the day-to-day productivity and scheduling of department activities such as:

  • Month-end close reviews, procedures, and corrections
  • 1099 annual process and tax related matters
  • Accounts payable liability management and reconciliation
  • Freight payable process
  • Invoice, payment and vendor maintenance processing
  • Unclaimed property process to ensure adherence to company and state guidelines
  • Accounts Payable inquiries and escalations to ensure that all invoices and other vendor communication are properly addressed
  • Develop and analyze routine metrics for the payables department and utilize them to drive process improvements, productivity or efficiency enhancements, identify training or workload balancing needs.
  • Integration of accounts payable work relating to acquisitions and integrations
  • Manage a team of processors and analysts that are both onshore and offshore.
  • Lead relationship with offshore resources, including ensuring SLA’s are consistently met to deliver on business objectives.
  • Revamp the overall procure to pay process from purchase order initiation to disbursements for timeliness, control and customer experience.
  • Create and/or amend policies and procedures that will be implemented on a global scale. Examples include but are not limited to bank fraud policy and delegation of authority guidelines.
  • Accountable for Sarbanes-Oxley controls and other compliance requirements.
  • Oversee preparation and execution of activities related to frequent M&A activity
  • Responsible for integrating acquisition procedures and operations.
  • Responsible for preparing data needed for potential divestitures.
  • Perform other special projects and analyses as directed by management.


Education and Experience Profile

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or related field is required
  • 8 years of overall accounting experience is required
  • 3 years previous management experience required; Accounts Payable management experience is highly preferred


Required Skills

  • Strong project management skills, ability to prioritize in a fast-changing environment, strong analytical skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Problem analysis and problem resolution at both strategic and functional level.
  • Proficiency in SAP, OnBase, Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) and Rate Links is strongly desired.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.


Work Environment

Working conditions are normal for an office environment.

This position can be in either St. Louis, MO or Middleton, WI.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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