North America Sr. Manager- Accounts Payable

The Sherwin Business Services (SBS) Senior Manager, Accounts Payable is responsible for leadership of the North American Accounts Payable department. The Sr. Manager will interact with all levels of business units, procurement, financial controllers and executive management. The Sr. Manager will also serve as a key project member for strategic procure-to-pay (P2P) initiatives, including the enterprise-wide design, build and implementations, automated payment methods and other P2P technology implementations.

As the company integrates acquisitions and converts legacy systems, the Sr. Manager will help define and implement the strategy, organization, policies and processes of future state operating model. This will require strong partnership with procurement, finance and business leadership to develop, update and / or enhance P2P solutions that are aligned with corporate objectives. The Sr. Manager must have the ability to work in both 1) management capacity and 2) detailed, hands-on process design capacity.

In this business services role, the incumbent will have the responsibility of continuing the expansion of business services processes and procedures for the North America region.

Because this role involves access to confidential financial information, the Company has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and to provide similar protections for its clients and potential investments.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

Manage North American SBS teams :

Manage and develop a team of 10+ (up to 2-3 direct reports) through adequate delegation, cross-training and accountability. This includes management of work supported for North American region in global locations.

Ensure proper training, coaching, and provide timely feedback to promote career development.

Support the production and distribution of regular metrics and enhanced reporting for team productivity.

Support the integration of acquisitions.

Serve as a subject matter expert for Accounts Payable specific to North American region :

Prioritize IT project and enhancement requests related to the modules and ensure problems are addressed.

Support standardized system implementations.

Partner with Procurement, Finance, Global AP COE and business leadership to develop, update and / or enhance P2P solutions.

Understand, enhance and promote internal controls :

Understand the current control environment and promote standard controls within region.

Recommend company-wide policies, processes, and procedures related to P2P.

Drive continuous improvement :

Promote transactional lean across team with the goal of creating synergies, lowering costs and improving processes.

Identify and implement changes to enhance reporting, streamline reconciliations and adjust processes to gain efficiencies across the department.

Seek opportunities for synergy, improvement, simplification and automation of existing processes and reporting.

Evaluate and optimize payment methods, including preparation and review of 1099 required reporting.

Collaboration with Regional Accounts Payable Leads and Outsource Vendors :

Standardizing processes, systems and policies

Effective / Cost beneficial strategic approach of workforce

Management of work outsourced to strategic partners for regional processes (i.e., utilities)

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

FORMAL EDUCATION : Required :

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Supply Chain or related field

Preferred :

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE :

Required :

Preferred :

TECHNICAL / SKILL REQUIREMENTS :

Required :

Preferred :

Travel : 10%