Financial Operations Director - Analytics & Compliance

Business Summary

Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable (APAR) play a critical role in protecting the company’s financial assets, enabling customers and suppliers, and managing billions of dollars in financial transactions. As our operations become increasingly digital, data-driven and automated, we need strong capabilities at the intersection of finance, technology, analytics and risk.

This role offers a unique opportunity to build and scale an organization from ground up: including hiring and developing managers, establishing team structure, and creating the processes and culture that enable a function to operate independently  APAR Analytics and Compliance Director will lead a multi-layered organization responsible for strengthening how APAR uses data, technology, controls and process improvement to operate more effectively and manage risk.

This role will partner across Finance, IT, Customer Operations, Sales, Procurement, Internal Audit and other organizations to modernize APAR processes while maintaining a strong global control environment.

• Lead the APAR analytics strategy and develop actionable insights that improve financial performance, operational efficiency and decision-making.
• Establish meaningful KPIs, dashboards and analytical frameworks across accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Use transactional data to identify trends, exceptions, root causes, control gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and maintain strong data governance practices, including data quality, ownership, lineage and reconciliation.
• Enable predictive and exception-based analytics to shift APAR from reactive processing toward proactive management.
• Build analytical capabilities within the team and increase effective use of data throughout APAR.

• Lead cross-functional projects focused on simplifying, standardizing and automating APAR processes.
• Evaluate existing processes and systems to identify opportunities for automation, digitization and improved controls.
• Apply process improvement methodologies and process-mining techniques to identify bottlenecks, exceptions and non-value-added activity.
• Translate business problems into technical requirements and partner with IT and other organizations to implement scalable solutions.
• Lead project governance, requirements definition, testing, implementation and change management for APAR initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI, workflow automation and emerging technologies to finance operations.

• Own and continuously strengthen the APAR control and compliance framework.
• Ensure appropriate controls supporting SOX requirements, PCI DSS and applicable global regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Internal Audit, external auditors and business stakeholders on control design, testing and remediation.
• Design controls into processes and systems rather than relying primarily on manual detective controls.
• Establish continuous monitoring and analytics to proactively identify control failures, unusual transactions and emerging risks.
• Assess payment, fraud, data privacy, access and operational risks across APAR.
• Support segregation-of-duties, access-control and sensitive-data requirements across financial systems and processes.
• Maintain Compliance policies and procedures and ensure they reflect regulatory obligations, corporate requirements, industry best practices while also addressing new business initiatives and technology enhancements.
• Stay abreast of related industry trends and standards.

• Provide technical leadership across B2B and B2C payment processes and technologies.
• Understand payment methods and infrastructure including ACH, wires, cards,…