AP Senior Manager

Posting Address

Greenville, SC
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Position Overview

The role of the AP Senior Manager is as follows:

• Lead the Hubbell global Accounts Payable function (including Travel & Expense Processing) to achieve benchmark levels of customer service, productivity, compliance, asset management, technology deployment, and personnel organizational health.
• Develop strategies for best-in-class processes and for creating an efficient organization supporting the global Hubbell Accounts Payable (AP) structure.
  

Duties and Responsibilities

Functional Leadership

• Provide management accountability, oversight, and support to the portfolio of functions under AP, which includes managing insourced and outsourced services and vendors.
• Ensuring seamless process integration and integrity between retained services in the business units, and insourced and outsourced services provided by OHF, third-party outsourcing providers, and service vendors.
• Manage the AP function plan and forecast to meet cost and productivity objectives.
• Oversee and monitor Hubbell and outsourcing provider compliance with required SOX and audit control objectives, including identification and implementation of remediation action plans.
• Coordinate, update, and implement disaster recovery planning when necessary.

Performance Management

• Develop, update, and review all service levels and key performance metrics for the AP processes, both from the Hubbell and outsourced services.
• Provide monthly reporting and lead performance discussions with business executives and other key stakeholders.
• Provide accurate and timely cash flow forecasting, including monitoring and improving Days Payables Outstanding and other key cash flow metrics, in partnership with Treasury and the business units.
• Monitor and analyze AP data to provide meaningful business insights, identifying and implementing new analytics dashboards as needed.
• Monitor outsourced service performance and provide feedback to the outsourced third party, ensuring corrective action implemented for any performance gaps.
• Establish, update, and implement process standards to balance the needs of the business with the efficiencies of the shared services functions.
• Lead cross enterprise teams to develop future processes to achieve functional goals while ensuring that critical business objectives are not adversely impacted.

Project Leadership

• Work with the business and the outsourcing provider to identify process and technology gaps, develop new projects, gain approval and alignment, and implement new solutions.
• Define requirements and select new tools/technologies to improve AP performance, services, and controls.
• Lead transition and implementation of new AP tools/technologies.
• Accountable for the successful completion of transformation initiatives on time, within budget, and according to specifications
• Provide oversight to SAP integration activities for AP functions, including training and rollout to new business units.

Business Partner

• Ensure the AP organization provides timely, accurate, and responsive customer service to business stakeholders and vendors.
• Develop and prioritize strategic initiatives with business stakeholders including identifying barriers and establishing solutions in collaborative manner.
• Gain buy-in and support from business and corporate stakeholders for AP projects and priorities.
• Serve as interpreter as needed between the outsourcing providers, vendors, and the business stakeholders, advocating for the business stakeholders.

People Leadership

• Serve as leader and mentor to the Hubbell and outsourcing provider AP organizations.
• Provide timely and constructive feedback to the Hubbell and outsourcing provider team members.
• Identify and manage career development and growth opportunities for the AP team.
  

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, economics, or similar
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project) and SAP
• 10+ years of experience in financial leadership, ideally in the AP function
• Strong people and organizational change leadership
• Experience in business process outsourcing in finance and accounting functions
• Experience in managing multiple large-scale projects
• Experience in leveraging a broad range of technology solutions, such as automation and data analytics tools
• Experience in managing competing needs of business, corporate, and shared services stakeholders
• Strong project management capability with deadline focus
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrated success at leading high performing teams
• Exceptional problem-solving capabilities and use of judgment
• Ability to work effectively in a distributed work environment/self-starter
• Ability to establish and leverage trusted relationship with business stakeholders
• Executive presence
• Ability to find creative solutions when options are limited while ensuring that unique critical requirements are not adversely impacted
• Influencing skills
• Experience in effectively leading change
• Ability to work effectively through conflict
• Domestic and international travel may be required 20% of time, including travel to outsourcing locations in India