Manager Payables & Receivables

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Be part of a growing, successful company in an exciting and challenging field. Border States is 100% employee-owned, which means you’re empowered to make decisions, find solutions and receive rewards for your hard work.

This position will be located in: Fargo, ND

Please note that the position may be filled before or after the listed Final date to receive applications. Applications will only be accepted while the posting remains active.

The Manager of Payables and Receivables provides enterprise-wide leadership and process ownership across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, employee expense management, corporate card and fleet administration, vendor disbursements, customer billing, cash application, and related transactional accounting activities. The role is accountable for scalable, accurate, timely, efficient, and compliant operations through consistent processes, systems, policies, controls, service expectations, performance measures, and continuous improvement.

The Manager leads a broad, multi-functional organization, including subordinate supervisors, and directs workforce planning, resource allocation, performance management, recruiting, onboarding, training, and employee development. The role also leads daily operations and month-end activities; supports audits, M&A integrations, system enhancements, automation, and other enterprise initiatives; and partners with stakeholders to resolve issues, strengthen cross-functional handoffs, and meet the organization’s evolving needs.

Essential functions

• Owns end-to-end processes across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, employee expense management, corporate card administration, fleet administration, vendor disbursements, cash application, and related transactional accounting activities.
• Establishes and maintains consistent operating processes, workflows, controls, service expectations, policies, procedures, and performance standards across assigned functions.
• Maintains ownership of departmental policies and standard operating procedures and ensures processes are consistently executed by assigned teams.
• Maintains accountability for the effectiveness of assigned processes from transaction initiation through completion, including upstream and downstream handoffs with other departments.
• Manages and supports the effective use of Concur, Motus, corporate card programs, expense reimbursement processes, and related integrations to ensure proper approval routing, policy compliance, accounting accuracy, and reimbursement.
• Leads a multi-functional organization encompassing Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Expense Management, and related transaction-processing responsibilities through both direct leadership and oversight of teams led by supervisors.
• Provides leadership, direction, coaching, and accountability to direct reports, ensuring effective leadership and consistent performance across their respective teams.
• Establishes team priorities and directs the allocation of people and resources across functions based on transaction volumes, service requirements, deadlines, organizational priorities, and changing business needs.
• Establishes and monitors departmental goals, KPIs, transaction quality measures, service levels, productivity indicators, workload measures, and other operational performance expectations.
• Leads capacity and workforce planning across assigned functions and adjusts staffing, priorities, and allocation of work to respond to transaction volumes and organizational requirements.
• Uses operational performance information to identify process breakdowns, resource constraints, training needs, workflow bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve team…