Sugar Land, TX, 77487, USA
13 hours ago
Senior Director, Accounts Payable
**Overview** **Join Our Team as Senior Director of Accounts Payable (P2P) – Lead Transformation, Innovation, and Operational Excellence!** Are you a visionary leader ready to transform a key financial function? We’re seeking a strategic, results-oriented Senior Director of Accounts Payable to drive the future of our centralized payables operations within the Enterprise Services Center (ESC). You’ll lead the charge in transforming processes, implementing cutting-edge technology, and ensuring robust controls while working across the business to align strategies and achieve operational excellence. **What You’ll Do:** + **Lead with Vision** : Oversee the strategy, management, and execution of the centralized payables functions, ensuring streamlined, compliant processes that meet business objectives. + **Drive Digital Transformation** : Spearhead the implementation of innovative technology and digital solutions, including RPA and AI, to drive automation and enhance operational efficiency across the enterprise. + **M&A Integration & Transformation** : Play a key role in post-acquisition integration and transformation, ensuring smooth transitions and aligning payables strategies with broader business goals. + **Collaborate & Align** : Partner with Procurement to drive cross-enterprise efficiency and secure end-to-end processes, ensuring alignment between procurement and payables strategies to optimize business performance. + **Focus on Compliance & Risk Management** : Ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, leading risk management strategies and overseeing audits to maintain a strong control environment and mitigate potential risks. + **Inspire & Develop Your Team** : Lead, inspire, motivate, and develop the Payables team within a culture of continuous improvement, empowering your team members to reach their full potential while delivering top-tier results. **In Addition, You Will Own:** + **Transformation & Innovation** : Lead enterprise-wide process, policy, people capabilities, and technology transformation initiatives, redefining operational excellence across the payables function. + **Credit Card Administration** : Manage a global credit card program of 3,400 holders, recommending and implementing improvements while collaborating with key stakeholders, including Procurement and the UK team. + **Master Data Management** : Ensure master data compliance with financial reporting requirements, manage the Segregation of Duties (SOD) process, and oversee month-end/quarter-end close processes. + **Audit Coordination** : Act as the liaison for internal and external audits, coordinating SOX reviews, updating control documentation, and implementing SOX guidance to ensure compliance. + **Lead Strategy & Operations** : Provide leadership and subject matter expertise on system implementations and business integrations, designing and automating standardized processes to improve performance. **What You Bring to the Table:** + **Leadership Expertise** : With 10+ years of experience in Accounts Payable, Finance, or transaction processing and at least 5 years in senior management, you have a proven ability to lead transformation and drive results. + **Strategic Mindset** : You’re an innovative leader who thrives on transforming operational processes, leveraging new technologies, and aligning strategies with business objectives to drive efficiency. + **Digital Savvy** : A strong background in digital transformation, technology implementation, and process automation, with a passion for driving technological solutions across the enterprise. + **M&A Experience** : You have hands-on experience in post-acquisition transformation, integrating payables functions to ensure seamless transitions and process alignment. + **Proactive & Solution-Oriented** : A catalyst for change, you focus on driving continuous improvement through designing, standardizing, and automating processes while managing risk and compliance. + **Data-Driven** : Expertise in analyzing and managing KPIs and service level agreements (SLAs) for the Payables team, always seeking ways to improve performance and customer satisfaction. **Bonus Points:** + Experience with financial transaction processes beyond Accounts Payable, such as Record-to-Report or Order-to-Cash. + Professional certifications like CPA or similar are a plus. **Why Join Us?** At ABM, we offer more than just a job – we offer a chance to be part of a forward-thinking company that values innovation, collaboration, and your personal growth in a supportive work environment where you can truly make a difference. ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM Employee Benefits | Staff & Management (https://wpe-media.abm.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/ABM\_2025\_Employee\_Benefits\_Staff\_&\_Management\_No%20Date%209.5.24.pdf) Ready to lead the Accounts Payable function into the future? Apply now and help us redefine financial operations for the next generation! REQNUMBER: 111925 All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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