Payment Operations Analyst - Temporary

About the Opportunity

You are passionate about delivering on-time, at-cost, and low-risk payment operations. You revel in consistently exceeding customers’ expectations. You want a lead role in managing enterprise-level day-to-day accounts payable activities and thrive when executing activities within Invoice to Payment and Time & Expense (T&E) workflows. You are a well-versed disbursement tactician with a continuous improvement, operational efficiency, and effectiveness mindset who delivers data-driven outcomes.

You’re a proven leader, often without authority, and act with a sense of urgency and organizational agility when problem-solving and project managing. You desire a supporting role in transforming and automating business processes, deploying a reimagined, data-driven performance management system within enterprise disbursement, and ultimately, delighting our customers. You have intellectual curiosity, build strong coalitions, possess strong financial acumen, and continuously demonstrate high degrees of ownership, integrity, and attention to detail.

You are an independent self-starter who thrives in connecting people and ideas to data and outcomes and have a strong entrepreneurial drive. You excel at communication, are comfortable with a critically important role in a highly visible organization, and are always accountable for results.

• 5 years of related experience or BA / BS and 2 years of relevant experience or relevant MBA / MS
• Demonstrated leadership and expertise within the Invoice to Payment and T&E workflows, e.g., invoice acceptance and payment, two- and three-way invoice matching, commercial and grantee payment terms, preferred payment mechanisms, compliance, corporate card programs, electronic expense systems, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively utilize disbursement data and trusted advisor relationships to identify opportunities, build cross-functional problem‑solving coalitions, continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of assigned activities, and ultimately deliver better outcomes via published performance management framework (e.g., business management system, service level agreements, key performance indicators)
• Familiarity with government and state / local payment/disbursement regulations, commercial payment best practices, and techniques/value levers to enhance returns on working capital
• Proven experience of leading payment/disbursement operations activities in a high profile, high transactional volume, high financial risk environment
• Globally minded, self‑motivated, flexible, and creative leader, able to prioritize, multi‑task, and work horizontally and vertically across a decentralized organization to drive results
• Strong leadership presence and ability to build customer‑focused “trusted advisor” relationships by delivering sound technical analysis, customer empathy, and data‑driven decision‑making
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to lead, interact with, influence, resolve conflict, and drive decisions/accountability among individuals from a variety of cultures and disciplines
• Demonstrated flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment while ensuring the organization is able to effectively and efficiently navigate transitions
• Familiarity with foreign currency transactions and ACH / Bank Wire regulations
• Demonstrated expertise of Microsoft business programs (e.g., Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point)
• Demonstrated experience utilizing data warehouse, data analytics, and reporting tools (e.g., Cognos, SQL, R, Python, Tableau, Power BI)
• Experience with JAGGAER preferred.
• Previous knowledge with Workday preferred

Responsible for assigned day‑to‑day payment operations activities, to include, but not limited to:

• Manage timing of vendor payments consistent with vendor agreements and company policy and budget
• Process all non‑Payroll requests for payment
• Coordinate purchase order and invoice payment issues with business partners, and identify any potential training gaps
• Communicate and enforce P2P policy
• Oversee the centralized billing and upload process for preferred…