General Accounting Manager 4

General Accounting Manager (Boise, ID - Onsite) MAJOR RESPONSIBILITES: • The Senior AP Deployment Specialist serves as a dedicated Accounts Payable Operations representative assigned full-time to the global invoice intake and processing transformation program. • Acting as the AP Operations throughout the deployment lifecycle, the role supports discovery, process reviews, business requirement validation, testing, deployment readiness, go-live, hyper-care, and stabilization activities. • The position operates separately from day-to-day Accounts Payable processing teams, allowing business-as-usual operations to remain focused on service delivery while dedicated AP deployment specialists support the transformation program full-time. • Working closely with country AP teams, the AP Process Transformation & AI Deployment Specialist, Change Management & Training Lead, project teams, and technology partners, the Senior AP Deployment Specialist helps ensure future-state solutions are practical, sustainable, compliant, and aligned with real-world AP operating requirements. • AP Business Ownership • Throughout discovery, design validation, testing, deployment, hyper-care, and stabilization the AP operations activities • Ensure documented requirements and configured solutions accurately reflect AP operational needs, controls, exception handling practices, and business requirements. • Act as the primary working-level representative between AP Operations and the deployment program. • Champion AP user readiness, operational adoption, and long-term sustainability of future-state processes SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED: 1. Discovery & Country Requirements • Participate in country discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and design discussions. • Demonstrate and explain current-state AP processes, controls, approval of workflows, exception handling, and operational practices. • Identify country-specific legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, language, and operational requirements. • Validate that local requirements are correctly understood and documented. • Assess operational impacts associated with proposed future-state processes. 2. Process Validation & Future-State Readiness • Review and validate Process Design Documents (PDDs), business requirements, process flows, controls, exception scenarios, and operating procedures. • Confirm that future-state processes accurately reflect AP operational requirements and business realities. • Evaluate how future-state processes will be operated, supported, and governed by AP after deployment. • Identify operational gaps, support requirements, ownership requirements, and adoption risks. • Validate that future-state solutions are scalable, sustainable, and practical for long-term AP operations. 3. Business Validation & User Acceptance Testing (UAT) • Develop end-to-end UAT scenarios and business test scripts based on real AP operational activities, controls, and exception handling requirements. • Prepare and maintain required business test data. • Execute UAT and validate solutions against approved business requirements. • Confirm that business outcomes are achieved, not solely that system functions operate. • Identify defects, process gaps, usability concerns, operational impacts, and business risks. • Support defect triage, retesting, and business sign-off activities. SIT ownership: System Integration Testing is performed by the implementation and development teams. The Senior AP Deployment Specialist focuses on business validation and UAT activities. 4. Deployment Readiness & Go-Live Support • Support deployment planning, readiness assessments, cutover activities, and country go-live preparations. • Confirm operational readiness across users, controls, work instructions, exception handling procedures, and support processes. • Coordinate deployment of readiness activities with country AP teams. • Validate user preparedness and operational readiness before deployment. • Support business go-live activities and the transition into production operations. 5. Hypercare & Stabilization • Act as an AP User during go-live and hyper-care activities. • Support issue identification, investigation, prioritization, escalation, and resolution. • Monitor user adoption, operational effectiveness, exception trends, and process performance. • Support the transition from project deployment to steady-state AP ownership and operations. • Validate that AP teams are fully prepared to own and sustain future-state processes. 6. AP Operations & Continuous Improvement • Identify opportunities to improve process effectiveness, user experience, controls, and operational efficiency. • Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement activities for future deployment waves. • Promote the adoption of standardized global processes across countries. • Support AP adoption of intelligent automation and future AI-enabled capabilities. • Provide operational feedback to guide future solution enhancements and country rollouts. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE • Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or related discipline. • 8+ years of experience in Accounts Payable, Procure-to-Pay, Shared Services, Finance Operations, or AP transformation initiatives. • Strong understanding of invoice processing, approvals, exception management, controls, and payment of readiness processes. • Experience participating in UAT, deployment, go-live, hyper-care, or operational improvement initiatives. • Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to work effectively across global teams and multiple countries. • Experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA is preferred • Experience supporting ERP, invoice processing, workflow, or automation deployments. • Exposure to intelligent document processing, workflow automation, RPA, or AI-enabled finance solutions. • Experience supporting global or multi-country transformation programs. • Experience in Shared Services or Global Business Services organizations.