Responsibilities- Lead, develop, and mentor the global Accounts Payable team, including the Senior AP Specialist and AP Analysts.
- Oversee the day-to-day Accounts Payable function, ensuring timely, accurate, and controlled invoice processing, review, and payment execution across domestic and international entities.
- Review and approve invoices submitted by the AP team, ensuring accurate GL coding, expense allocations, departmental classifications, and compliance with firm policies and budget methodologies.
- Oversee the firm's procurement, vendor onboarding, employee expense reimbursement (Concur), and corporate card programs, ensuring compliance with firm policies, approval workflows, and internal controls.
- Drive AP technology, workflow automation, and payment modernization initiatives.
- Govern the monthly expense allocation process across all management company entities, ensuring consistency with firm methodologies and accurate financial reporting.
- Partner with FP&A and Corporate Accounting to ensure accurate expense classifications, budget alignment, and high-quality management reporting.
- Review significant vendor spend trends and expense coding, proactively identifying opportunities to improve coding accuracy, strengthen controls, and reduce post-close reclassifications.
- Manage month-end AP close activities, including accruals, vendor reconciliations, cash reporting, and other close deliverables.
- Partner with the Controller on cash management, intercompany settlements, and financial reporting.
- Ensure compliance with Procurement, Travel & Expense, Corporate Card, and Accounts Payable policies while maintaining a strong internal control environment and supporting internal and external audit requests.
- Manage relationships with external AP consultants, service providers, and strategic vendors.
- Identify and lead continuous process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, scalability, and controls across the global Accounts Payable function.
Qualifications- 7-10 years of progressive Accounts Payable or corporate accounting experience, including 3+ years in a management or team lead role.
- Hedge fund, private equity, alternative investment, or financial services experience strongly preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-entity, global Accounts Payable operations.
- Proven track record leading AP process improvements, workflow automation, and technology implementations.
- Experience with Accounts Payable workflow and ERP platforms; StavPay experience strongly preferred.
- Experience with expense management platforms (e.g. Concur) and corporate card programs (e.g., American Express, Extend, or similar).
- Strong understanding of internal controls, expense allocations, vendor management, and month-end close processes.
- Strong people management, coaching, and team development skills.
- Excellent organizational, project management, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and effectively manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
The annual base salary range for this position is $100,000 to $150,000 (USD). In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a discretionary performance bonus and a comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of factors such as geographic location, work experience, qualifications, and skill level.
