Director of Global Invoicing & Payment Processing

The Director of Accounts Payable is a senior finance leader responsible for the strategic direction, operational leadership, and continuous improvement of the company’s global accounts payable function. This role will oversee high-volume, multi-entity accounts payable operations and lead a global shared services organization supporting business operations across multiple legal entities and geographies. The Director will establish and maintain a scalable, efficient, and well-controlled procure-to-pay environment while driving standardization, automation, service excellence, and operational performance.

The position will partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Procurement, Tax, Internal Audit, IT, and business leaders throughout the organization. The ideal candidate has significant experience leading global accounts payable and shared services operations within a large, complex organization and brings a strong combination of operational leadership, financial controls expertise, systems knowledge, and change-management capabilities.

Provide strategic and operational leadership for the company’s accounts payable function across multiple entities, business units, and geographies. Lead a global shared services accounts payable organization, establishing clear service delivery standards, accountability, and performance expectations. Oversee end-to-end accounts payable activities, including invoice processing, approval workflows, payment execution, vendor maintenance, employee expense processes, and related activities. Ensure accurate and timely processing of invoices and payments across multiple currencies, entities, and jurisdictions.

Establish global AP policies, procedures, and operating standards while appropriately addressing local business and regulatory requirements. Develop and monitor service-level agreements, key performance indicators, and operational metrics to drive performance and accountability. Build strong relationships with business stakeholders and ensure the AP organization delivers a high level of internal and external customer service.

Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for the global accounts payable shared services function. Drive standardization of processes across entities, regions, and business units to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability. Evaluate the shared services operating model and identify opportunities for centralization, automation, outsourcing, or other structural improvements. Lead initiatives to improve invoice processing efficiency, touchless processing rates, payment accuracy, cycle times, and vendor experience.

Establish effective governance across global and regional teams to ensure consistent execution and accountability. Partner with other shared services and finance leaders to identify opportunities to further optimize the company’s broader finance operating model.

Maintain a strong internal control environment across accounts payable and related payment processes. Ensure AP processes and controls are designed and executed in accordance with company policies and applicable SOX requirements. Establish appropriate segregation of duties, approval authorities, vendor master controls, and payment controls. Proactively identify and mitigate fraud, duplicate payment, vendor, and payment-related risks. Partner with Internal Audit, external auditors, Accounting, and other stakeholders to support audits and control testing.

Ensure timely remediation of control deficiencies and implementation of sustainable corrective actions. Maintain appropriate documentation of AP processes, controls, policies, and procedures.

Lead the ongoing modernization and automation of accounts payable processes and technologies. Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes through workflow automation, electronic invoicing, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, and other technologies. Partner with IT and Finance Systems teams on ERP implementations, upgrades, integrations,…