Director, Accounts Payable

Key Responsibilities Drive a best‑in‑class Payables Team & P2P Operations

Manage day‑to‑day Payables operations in conjunction with leadership within the upstream P2P processes. Lead a team of approximately twenty individuals, optimizing human capital resource structure and roles. Manage Payables for up to 13k employee base, and excess of 25k monthly invoices. Drive best‑in‑class tools, people, process, and policy as for Sunrun’s current size and business needs.

Cultivate Transparency & Teamwork:
Foster an open culture of collaboration; transparency where team members are encouraged to raise flags, surface process bottlenecks, and work collectively toward solutions. Results‑Driven Development:
Lead, mentor, coach, and scale a high‑performing AP team, transforming the organizational culture from transactional processing to analytical exception management driven by clear accountability and ownership. Cross‑Functional Relationship Management:
Act as a true cross‑functional leader who actively seeks feedback and input from varying departments (Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, IT) to ensure P2P processes meet diverse business needs without compromising accounting integrity.

Advanced Document Capture:
Leverage and optimize advanced intelligent data capture tools, specifically OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and IDR (Intelligent Document Recognition) invoice readers, to convert manual ingestion into highly automated, touchless processing.

Experience with Oracle Cloud native functionality or other bolt‑on tools a plus. AI & Automation

Roadmap:

Drive the identification, piloting, and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities within the P2P cycle (e.g., predictive exception routing, smart GL coding suggestions, automated duplicate detection). Quantifiable Efficiency Gains:
Convert manual, repetitive touchpoints into automated workflows, delivering trackable results in automated 3‑way match rates, reduced cycle times, and lower cost‑per‑invoice metrics.

Lead the strategic evaluation, implementation, and scaling of automated employee expense management tools and corporate credit card programs. Policy Enforcement:
Design and enforce global T&E (Travel and Expense) policies that strike the perfect balance between corporate agility and strict public company compliance, reducing leakage and unauthorized spend.

Maintain & adapt the SOX control framework across the entire P2P lifecycle and corporate card ecosystem to support our public company requirements. Policy Governance:
Modernize, develop, and enforce corporate accounting policies and procedures that align with business growth while effectively mitigating risk across all operational business units. Audit Readiness:
Act as the primary interface for internal and external auditors for all P2P and expense cycles during quarterly reviews and annual financial audits.

Advanced Reporting & BI:
Leverage enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence tools—specifically “Snowflake” and “Tableau”—to build out automated AP dashboards, track operational metrics, and conduct deep‑dive variance analyses. Oracle Cloud Optimization:
Utilize and optimize “Oracle Cloud ERP” to automate matching, streamline invoice routing, and eliminate manual, redundant touchpoints.

GL Integration & Reconciliations:
Ensure the AP team operates with a strong accounting mindset, owning AP specific account reconciliations and subledger‑to‑general‑ledger balancing in key accounts. Accrual Ownership:
Own the operational design, calculation, and review of critical month‑end AP accruals, ensuring no material variances or omissions impact corporate consolidation. Upstream Data Integrity:
Partner closely with teams across Inventory, Project Costing, Operations, S&M and G&A to ensure upstream data integrity, preventing coding errors that trigger downstream variances or material…