Manager, Global Accounts Payable & Procure-to-Pay

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

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About the Role:

We are hiring a Manager of Global Accounts Payable within the Accounting organization to support the Senior Manager of Global P2P Operations. The position will help tie together the various and sundry processes held on both the AP and T&E sides of the team, as well as across the broader Procure-to-Pay (P2P) organization. In addition to the aforementioned day-to-day AP operations, the role’s P2P secondary duties can be defined by “three Ps”: project management, process documentation, and platform administration. This position will be responsible for managing several direct reports.

What You'll Do:

Accounts Payable

• Provide oversight of the day-to-day operations of the Global Accounts Payable Teams ensuring that all payments are made in a timely and accurate manner
• Manage a team of several direct reports across the Global Accounts payable space
• Act as the primary interface with internal business partners and external vendors 
• Maintain P2P process compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley 404 and other pertinent regulations
• Perform required month-end close activities and reconciliations for the Controllership org
• Act as primary liaison to AppWrap Netsuite administrative team; attend scheduled recurring meetings and perform maintenance as needed
• As assigned by management, assist with oversight of Motive’s T&E policy and processes globally

Accounting

• Perform EOM accruals for Motive cards programs and employee expenses
• Perform EOM reconciliations of various accruals and general ledger balances
• Ability to speak to Accounting principles (GAAP, accruals, balance sheets, etc.) 
• Perform closing duties as assigned

Motive Corporate Card Program Management

• Manage the applications, approvals, provisioning, and if necessary, decommissioning of Motive corporate cards
• Oversee EOM corporate card receipt collection / reporting
• Periodically review Motive’s corporate card policy and make updates as necessary

P2P Daily Operations

• Assist with the P2P team’s Coupa support channel in Slack
• Upgrade and maintain P2P’s Motive for Vendors webpage
• Co-host P2P recurring office hours

Project Management

• Lead approximately 2-3 P2P business transformation projects at any given time
• Create and update project management decks for the department at large

Process Documentation

• Upgrade and maintain the P2P team’s SOP library
• Upgrade and maintain the P2P team’s skills matrix

Platform Administration 

As necessary, act as either a co-lead or single proprietor of the following platforms:

• Navan
• Expensify 
• Coupa
• Netsuite

What We're Looking For:

• Preferred: Bachelor’s in related field: Accounting, Procurement, Finance, Business
• 6+ years of experience in managing Accounts Payable, Procure-to-Pay, Procurement, or related teams
• Team player with collaborative style and proven track record of building successful relationships with stakeholders and suppliers
• Experience in tool implementation and project management 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to navigate an agile, fast-paced startup environment
• Ability to self-start and act autonomously with minimal leadership input 
• Ability to manage global teams within a fully remote environment 
• Understanding of accounting principles, processes, systems and controls relating to accounts payable and payments
• Strong skills in Excel and the broader Microsoft Office suite (and Google equivalents)
• Experience with managing a P2P platform, preferably Coupa
• Experience with managing a T&E platform, preferably Navan

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