Sr Manager AP

At Erie Home, we are powered by people on a single mission to make home ownership easy. We’ve crafted a team of the very best to ensure we make a difference by winning every day. In addition to serving our customers, Erie Home strives to build a welcoming and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be a certified
Great Place to Work®as well as a multi-year recipient
Top Workplaces
recognition.

From competitive medical benefits to people-focused committees like the Women’s Committee, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and Vet Connect, we are dedicated to making Erie Home a workplace where you can win every day. Come grow your career with us.

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The Senior Manager, Accounts Payable provides leadership and oversight of the Accounts Payable function, ensuring accurate, timely, and controlled payment operations within a high-volume environment. This role establishes functional priorities, develops and implements policies and processes, leads team performance and continuous improvement, and partners across the organization to deliver scalable and effective accounts payable operations.

• Leads the Accounts Payable function and establishes departmental priorities,performance expectations, and operating practices to support Company and Finance objectives. Oversees high-volume payment operations, including invoice processing, payment execution, and related AP activities.
• Leads and develops the Accounts Payable team, including subordinate leaders and team members as applicable. Establishes performance expectations,provides coaching and development, evaluates organizational capabilities and staffing needs, and promotes accountability and retention.
• Develops, implements, and maintains Accounts Payable policies, procedures,and internal controls. Ensures consistent execution of established requirements and identifies and addresses areas of financial, operational, and compliance risk.
• Establishes, monitors, and evaluates departmental KPIs, including payment lead time, late payments, non-PO payments, match exceptions, and other measures of operational performance. Uses performance data and trends to establish priorities and drive improvements.
• With the partnership of the Finance Process Improvement Analyst, leads continuous improvement efforts across Accounts Payable by identifying and implementing opportunities to streamline processes, strengthen controls,improve accuracy and efficiency, increase automation, and create scalablesolutions that support business growth and evolving organizational needs.
• Oversees payment and disbursement processes, including scheduled payment runs, ensuring the timely identification and capture of all vendor term discounts, exception payments, employee expense programs, purchasing card activities, and related processes to ensure timely and accurate execution and appropriate controls.
• Partners with Accounting, Finance, Procurement, Operations, and other cross functional stakeholders to resolve complex issues, improve upstream and downstream processes, and ensure Accounts Payable requirements are considered in business and operational decisions.
• Oversees Accounts Payable activities supporting the financial close, including accruals, intercompany activity,…