Accounts Payable Team Lead

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Busch Vacuum Solutions
is a leading manufacturer of vacuum pumps, compressors, and blowers for use in industries such as semiconductor manufacturing, food processing, metallurgy, biomedical, and material handling.

We currently have an exciting direct-hire opportunity for an Accounts Payable Team Lead at our U.S. headquarters in Virginia Beach, Virginia!

The Accounts Payable Team Lead plays a key role in aligning the Accounts Payable team around consistent processes, accurate work, clear expectations, and timely results. This position serves as a hands-on resource for team members, providing day-to-day guidance, supporting complex invoice and payment issue resolution, and helping ensure invoices, payments, GL coding, and cost center coding are handled consistently across the department.

The Team Lead works closely with Accounting, Purchasing, Receiving, business departments, and vendors to resolve issues, strengthen internal controls, streamline processes, and promote continuous improvement.

This is a full-time, fully onsite position, Monday through Friday, from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, with flexibility required based on business needs.

Targeted Compensation: The targeted compensation for this position starts at $31.00 per hour, with final compensation determined based on the selected candidate's qualifications, skills, and relevant experience.

If you’re an experienced Accounts Payable professional who enjoys solving problems, improving processes, and helping a team succeed, apply today and discover why
Busch Vacuum Solutions
is a great place to grow your career!

Job Responsibilities

• Help align daily Accounts Payable activities, priorities, and coverage to support consistent processes and established deadlines.
• Serve as a knowledgeable resource for team members when questions, exceptions, or complex invoice and payment issues arise.
• Provide coaching, cross-training, and day-to-day guidance to improve accuracy, accountability, knowledge sharing, and business continuity.
• Reinforce approved procedures, documentation standards, internal controls, and consistent processing practices.
• Review complex or higher-risk transactions and help determine the appropriate resolution or escalation path.
• Research recurring invoice, workflow, coding, and payment issues, identify root causes, and coordinate practical corrective actions.
• Partner with Purchasing, Receiving, Accounting, business departments, and vendors to resolve discrepancies and clarify ownership.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, work instructions, checklists, coding guidance, and training materials for core AP activities.
• Evaluate AP processes and identify opportunities to reduce manual rework, inconsistent handling, unnecessary steps, and avoidable delays.
• Support the testing and implementation of SAP S/4
  
  HANA, SAP VIM, workflow, automation, and other process improvements.
• Develop and maintain clear GL account, cost center, internal order, and transaction coding guidance in partnership with Accounting and business owners.
• Perform periodic reviews of GL, cost center, internal order, and tax coding to identify inconsistencies, trends, and training opportunities.
• Process, enter, and review PO and non-PO invoices in SAP S/4
  
  HANA and related workflow systems for accuracy, approvals, pricing, tax, and supporting documentation.
• Prepare or review payment proposals for ACH, wire, check, and foreign payments while confirming payment terms, blocks, documentation, and required approvals.
• Reconcile vendor statements, resolve outstanding balances, and support timely responses to vendor and internal customer inquiries.
• Support month-end close activities, aging reviews, account reconciliations, accruals, and resolution of open AP items.
• Monitor AP indicators including invoice aging, processing accuracy, exception volume, duplicate prevention, payment timeliness, blocked invoices, and unresolved statement items.
• Ensure adherence to segregation of duties, approval authority, payment controls, vendor master controls, and document-retention requirements.
• Support internal and external audits by providing documentation, explaining…