Global Accounts Payable Manager

About impact.com

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com:

As the Global Accounts Payable Manager, you will be responsible for managing and enhancing a global Payables portfolio, with a key focus on accuracy and completeness of Bills processing and codification. Your ability to enhance relationships with Vendors and stakeholders across the company, will be a key aspect of this role. You will be required to Manage and Lead an effective Accounts payables team with adherence to processes, controls and policies, that support key business objectives, aligned with global compliance.

What You'll Do:

• Invoice/Bill processing, review and verify codification of Vendor bills, to ensure accuracy and compliance is maintained during the end-to-end cycle
• Expense processing, ensure that employee claims are accurately reviewed and coded for timely payments, in addition to dispute and query management on specific claims
• Payment processing, ensure the payables team prepare and execute timely payments via various payment methods, making use of banking platforms and adherence to treasury and cash management controls
• Reconciliation, ensure that accounts payables sub-ledgers are reconciled as per accounting controls
• Financial support, ensure that the accounts payable team manage the month-end close controls and procedures, in adherence to outlined timelines
• Reporting, generate reports using ERP and Vendor/employee systems, to consolidate and prepare accounts payable reporting packs for business submission
• Process improvement, evaluate and optimize accounts payable processes for efficiency and accuracy, utilizing automation intelligence (AI) , technology and related resources
• Vendor and Stakeholder management, maintain positive relationships, effectively communicate process and control updates and ensure that you are a solution provider to the business
• Audits and Compliance, ensure the accounts payable team effectively prepare and present relevant audit samples and reports, to adhere to financial controls and complicance

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration or equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience leading an effective accounts payable team within a global organization
• Proficiency with accounting principles and internal controls related to Accounts payable (experience working with multi-entity, multi-currency, multi-sub-department preferred)
• Demonstrates ability to manage large volumes of Bills, employee expenses and corporate credit card transactions (+2000 vendor bills per month and +2000 credit card transactions preferred)
• Demonstrates ability as a Project Manager who can prioritize workload and manage complex projects working with cross-functional peers
• Experience managing a global Travel and entertainment policy and system would be beneficial
• Knowledge of best in class accounts payable target setting, goals and techniques to manage a team within a fast paced environment Independent manager with a great work ethic and an analytical thinker with superior problem solving and decision-making skills, who works wells under pressure
• Extremely detail-oriented and organized with prior experience setting up desktop procedures for accounts payable and finance operations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills both written & verbal; for reliable and responsive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
• Highest level of integrity and good judgment, with the ability to effectively deal with highly sensitive, confidential information
• Experience working with ERP systems i.e. Net suite/SAP, ability to analyze large data sets

Benefits and Perks:

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
• Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
• Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

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