Job description
Please send your resume in WORD format should you be interested in the following Accounts Payable Supervisor position located near Chicago, IL. This is a full-time role with a salary range of $90K - $97K range depending on experience with 15% bonus, RSUs, and solid benefits. If you are not interested in this position, please pass onto colleagues/associates as we do offer referral fees should they be hired.
Job Title: Accounts Payable Supervisor
Work Environment: 3 days in office / 2 days remote
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: $90K - $97K
Term: Full-time
3rd Party C2C/Transfer: No
Referral Fee: $500 - Refer qualified colleague, friends, or family.
Degree required: Yes, unless candidate has substantial experience
Please reply with an updated resume in Microsoft Word format
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Accounts Payable Supervisor leads a team within the U.S. Accounts Payable function responsible for ensuring sustained excellence in the function’s operations and providing exemplary service to the department’s customer base. Among key responsibilities are supervising daily operations, managing assigned personnel and systems, mitigating risk, resolving operational issues, supporting team strategies/initiatives and innovating. This is a critical and visible role requiring both strong leadership and tactical expertise.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions
General:
- Administers the function’s daily operations
- Leads, assesses performance of and develops assigned staff
- Drives exemplary service to attorneys, Firm practices and administrative colleagues
- Ensures a robust control system and sufficient risk mitigation
- Ensures timely and accurate processing of disbursement requests and payments and completion of other departmental responsibilities
- Ensures pristine and accurate recordkeeping and processing
- Assesses departmental practices and processes; recommends and implements enhancements
- Optimally leverages departmental financial systems and technology
- Supports departmental strategies
- Leads training initiatives and implementation of sophisticated process documentation
- Assists in the development and reporting of departmental metrics and KPI’s
- Performs other tasks as assigned
Tactical:
- Develops comprehensive expertise on the Firm’s financial systems, policies and procedures
- Is on the cutting edge of industry technologies and innovations
Qualifications
Education/Training/Certifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field, strongly preferred, an equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered in lieu of the degree when experience is directly related to the needs and expectations of the role
Professional Experience:
- Five years+ in accounts payable, required
- Prior leadership experience, strongly preferred
- Experience in legal or other professional services environment, preferred
- Accounting experience, preferred
Technical Skills:
- Expert knowledge of financial and accounts payable operations and systems, required
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office products, including Excel, required
- Advanced knowledge of automated disbursements workflow systems (e.g. Chrome River, Concur, Coupa), strongly preferred
Performance Trait:
- Strong, dynamic leadership presence
- Committed and able to lead a group with diverse skill sets
- Innate customer service orientation and commitment to excellence
- Polished communication skills
- Championing of a positive, energetic culture featuring teamwork and collaboration
- Natural ability to influence, inspire and drive positive change
- Sharp critical thinking and analytical skills
- Ability to creatively conceive solutions and tenaciously solve problems
- Proactive and innovative
- Inherently self-reflective, collaborative, growth oriented
- Meticulous attention to detail, quality work, meeting deadlines
- Technologically savvy
Management Accountabilities:
Performance of assigned team, talent, and goals
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