Manager, Accounts Payable

Thread lock Precision is a rapidly growing engineered component manufacturing organization serving leading aerospace and defense customers, including OEMs and Tier 1/Tier 2 suppliers. Backed by strong financial support and positioned for continued expansion, we are investing in our people, capabilities, operations, and commercial strategies to support long-term growth and meet increasing demand across complex, high-precision manufacturing programs.

The Work We Do Matters! Our products support the defense industrial base and ensure that the men and women serving our country have reliable, high-quality equipment.

We are currently hiring an Accounts Payable Manager to oversee all AP enterprise wide. This position will sit at our recently acquired R&S Machining plant located in St. Louis, Missouri.

How You Will Make a Difference

This is an opportunity to help shape and scale the Accounts Payable function as Thread lock Precision continues to grow. You will bring structure, consistency, and strong financial discipline across our businesses while improving how we process, manage, and resolve accounts payable activities. Your impact will go beyond processing transactions…you will help build the processes, controls, and team needed to support the next stage of our growth.

Position Summary

As our Accounts Payable Manager, you will be responsible for leading and executing the day-to-day accounts payable function across the organization, currently four locations. This is a working manager and individual contributor role involved in invoice processing, vendor account resolution, payment preparation, reconciliations, and close support while also establishing priorities, monitoring performance, and serving as the primary escalation point for complex accounts payable issues.

As the organization grows, you will build and lead the AP team, remaining hands-on while assigning work, coaching employees, and ensuring consistent execution across the function.

You will provide hands-on transaction processing support for four separate businesses while ensuring payment accuracy and timeliness, process discipline, internal controls, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Accounts Payable Operations & Leadership

• Lead and actively participate in day-to-day accounts payable activities, including invoice review and processing, coding, purchase order and receipt matching, payment preparation, vendor maintenance, and account reconciliation.
• Manage, coach, and develop accounts payable employees, including establishing priorities, assigning work, monitoring performance, and ensuring deadlines and service expectations are met.
• Monitor invoice queues, vendor aging, payment schedules, and outstanding issues; prioritize work and ensure timely resolution of exceptions and backlog.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex vendor, payment, invoice, purchase order, and internal process issues.
• Partner with Procurement, Operations, Finance, and business leaders to resolve discrepancies and improve purchase-to-pay execution.
• Ensure accounts payable transactions are accurate, properly supported, approved, and processed in accordance with company policies and internal controls.
• Review and approve payment activity in accordance with established authority levels and segregation-of-duties requirements.
• Support month-end and year-end close activities, including account reconciliations, accrual support, aging analysis, account research, and audit documentation.
• Monitor key accounts payable metrics, including invoice volume, processing timeliness, payment status, outstanding exceptions, and aging, and provide visibility to Finance leadership on significant risks or trends.
• Establish and maintain standardized accounts payable processes, procedures, controls, and work instructions across business locations.
• Identify process gaps, bottlenecks, duplicate work, and opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, automation, and consistency.
• Lead accounts payable process improvements, system implementations, integrations, and testing activities.
• Support the integration and standardization of accounts payable practices across newly acquired and existing business locations.

Basic Qualifications (Required)

• H.S. Diploma or GED.
• At least eight (8) years of accounts payable experience supporting multiple legal entities or business locations and to include payment process development and improvement, vendor reconciliations, and financial controls.
• Experience using…