Accounts Payable Manager
THE ROLE: Accounts Payable Manager
We’re looking for…
- The right person to play a key role in the department who possesses a high level of integrity, curiosity, strong discipline, and a high degree of accuracy.
What you’ll accomplish…
- First point of contact for the team to resolve issues as they arise. Ensures that the team provides timely, consistent and exceptional customer service to internal and external clients; assists team with correspondence (e.g. help draft email responses, provide talking points, etc.)
- Creates an environment that fosters team effectiveness and cooperation, professional growth, and unity. Challenges team members, and empowers them to resolve matters directly with vendors.
- Responsible for building weekly payments schedule and prioritizing high value vendors.
- Works with manager to plan daily payments and assists team when needed with payment timelines to vendors.
- Handles relationships with more complex and vocal vendors.
- Reconciles Factor statements on a bi-weekly basis and schedules payment via ACH and checks.
- Responsible for the department Pcard; including monitoring balances, authorizing charges and reconciling the statement at the end of the cycle.
- Responsible for working with the team on prepayment and aged receivables reconciliations.
- Ensures the timely and accurate Month End closing of Accounts Payable which includes reconciliations of A/P accounts and assists manager with quarterly AP/RNI clean-up.
- Monitors stale dated checks list to void any uncashed.
- Voids all returned ACHs in PSFT and updates analyst with new bank information as needed.
There’s More…
- Ability to perform vendor analysis, and support of corporate procurement functions. Reviews and monitors aged invoices and payment inaccuracies, following up to finalize the payment.
- Prepares reconciling items when needed, works closely with the GL team, and participates in the annual audit.
- Develops procedures to improve existing processes, suggests and implements processing efficiencies.
- Takes the lead on ad hoc projects as needed.
THE RIGHT FIT:
You have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field is preferred
- 5+ years of dedicated accounts payable experience
- 2+ years supervisory experience
- Excellent attention to detail and time management skills
- Strong ability to manage a team while completing multiple tasks within a high volume environment
- Knowledge of MS Office and Outlook
- Advanced Excel experience including Pivot Tables and Vlookups
Bonus points for…
If you’ve got everything going on above, you’re already a strong fit.
If you have the following too? You earn some extra credit from us.
- Being team-oriented and able to interact effectively and influence people at all levels and across all functions of the organization.
- Experience in an ERP accounting system such as PeopleSoft
- Accounts Payable experience in a retail, business to business or business to consumer environment preferred
ABOUT THE FINANCE TEAM:
Fun, dedicated, hard-working team who truly loves our impact on Rue La La! We manage the operating expenses of the company and make impactful decisions on a daily basis. We work closely with every department across the company and regularly interact with senior management.
ABOUT US:
Rue La La combines world-class merchandising, technology and marketing to create the most engaging and satisfying online shopping experience available. Each day, 15+ million loyal Members turn to Rue La La for everything from women, men and children's apparel and accessories to home décor and exclusive experiences. Our approach to retail brings excitement to online shopping in a way that not only strategically supports our brand partners, but also inspires our Members daily.
This Company is an equal opportunity employer, and selects individuals best matched for the job based upon job-related qualifications regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, gender identity, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status or any other status or characteristic protected by law.