Global Director – Accounts Payable

• Establish global procurement and accounts payable policies, procedures, controls, service levels, approval matrices, purchasing thresholds, preferred vendor requirements, and process metrics
• Own the global procure-to-pay process, including procurement intake, purchase requisitions, vendor sourcing support, purchase order governance, vendor onboarding, invoice receipt, coding, approval routing, payment runs, exception handling, vendor inquiries, and AP month-end procedures
• Partner with Legal, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, IT, operations, and local finance teams on vendor compliance, approvals, tax documentation, payment accuracy, purchasing discipline, contract visibility, and system alignment
• Lead procurement and AP process centralization and automation, including purchasing workflows, vendor portals, OCR, procurement intake tools, T&E integrations, purchase order matching, and ERP-enabled controls
• Manage shared services performance for routine procurement and AP processing, including work queues, productivity, defect rates, aging, turnaround times, purchase order compliance, and escalations
• Oversee global corporate card and expense management processes, including card administration, spending controls, transaction reconciliation, policy compliance, and employee expense processing
• Support acquisition integration by mapping legacy processes, migrating vendors, aligning approval workflows, onboarding acquired entities, and stabilizing purchasing and payment operations
• Maintain controls over vendor selection, vendor master data, segregation of duties, bank detail changes, duplicate payments, fraud prevention, purchase approvals, payment approvals, contract support, and documentation retention

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Procurement, or related field preferred
• 8+ years of procurement, AP, procure-to-pay, shared services, accounting operations, or finance process leadership experience
• Experience in a multi-country or multi-entity environment
• Experience with ERP systems, procurement workflows, purchasing controls, vendor master governance, workflow automation, internal controls, and acquisition integration preferred
• Experience driving process improvement across a global or complex organization highly desirable