Accounts Payable Supervisor Job Sacramento area,California USA,Accounting

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Job Overview

The Accounts Payable Supervisor is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Accounts Payable department and ensuring invoices, payments, vendor accounts, and related transactions are processed accurately and timely. This position provides direct supervision, training, and support to the Accounts Payable team while serving as the primary point of escalation for AP related issues. The Accounts Payable Supervisor is expected to take ownership of AP processes, prioritize team workload, identify and resolve issues, and promote accuracy, consistency, and continuous improvement within the department.

The ideal candidate is a hands‑on leader who can balance supervisory responsibilities with supporting AP processing and special projects as needed.

Key Responsibilities and Essential Tasks

Provide day-to-day leadership, direction, and support to the Accounts Payable team, taking ownership of the daily AP function and ensuring department priorities and deadlines are met.
Independently assess and prioritize team workload, adjusting assignments and resources as needed to ensure invoices, payments, and other AP responsibilities are completed accurately and timely.
Train and onboard new AP employees and provide ongoing coaching and development to existing team members.
Monitor employee performance, accuracy, productivity, and adherence to established processes and provide timely feedback when improvement is needed.
Serve as the primary point of escalation for AP questions and issues, researching problems, making decisions within established authority, and escalating matters to management with recommended solutions when appropriate.
Oversee the accurate and timely processing of vendor invoices, purchase orders, subcontractor invoices, employee expenses, and other AP transactions.
Ensure invoices have appropriate documentation, coding, purchase orders, and approvals prior to processing.
Oversee the accurate and timely processing of vendor invoices, purchase orders, subcontractor invoices, employee expenses, and other AP transactions.
Monitor outstanding invoices and vendor accounts and ensure discrepancies and aged items are researched and resolved timely.
Ensure the AP team is actively reviewing and reconciling vendor statements, following up on outstanding items, and keeping vendor accounts current, including timely resolution of duplicate invoices, payment discrepancies, incorrect coding, and other AP exceptions.
Partner with Purchasing, Project Accounting, Operations, and other departments to independently resolve invoice, purchase order, subcontract, coding, and vendor-related issues.
Oversee vendor setup and maintenance and ensure required documentation and approvals are obtained.
Ensure project-related invoices are properly coded to the appropriate project, activity, cost category, general ledger account, and entity.
Assist with resolving purchase order, subcontract, retention, sales/use tax,…