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Senior Manager, Accounts Payable Process Manager Title
Boston, MA City
Business Domain

Description

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring the success of the Accounts Payable Process at Ginkgo. This role will be responsible for all Accounts Payable processes for Ginkgo and its subsidiaries.

Total compensation for this role is market driven, with a starting salary of $130,000+, as well as company stock awards. Base pay is ultimately determined based on a candidate's skills, expertise, and experience. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental & vision coverage, health spending accounts, voluntary benefits, leave of absence policies, Employee Assistance Program, 401(k) program with employer contribution, 8 paid holidays in addition to a full-week winter shutdown and unlimited Paid Time Off policy.

Responsibilities
- Responsible for the management of the Accounts Payable end to end process, from invoice to payments, including but not limited to, reviewing, coding, sorting and inputting vendor invoices, and employee expense reports
- Lead the day-to-day operations of a high volume Accounts Payable department ensuring the Accounts Payable team processes invoices and payments compliantly, efficiently and timely
- Prioritize and ensure delivery of Accounts Payable team members activities within the Accounts Payable process
- Create and ensure compliance to standard operating procedures, normalizing tasks and defining roles and responsibilities of the Accounts Payable team
- Own the Accounts Payable internal control environment and ensure Accounts Payable team is trained and knowledgeable of any processing impacts to controls
- Continuously analyze Accounts Payable processes for adherence to industry standards and best practices, and define opportunities for streamlining, growth and improvement
- Ensure oversight of critical processes for timely execution (e.g. rent and utilities payments)
- Responsible for the Accounts Payables annual OKR delivery
- Develop, implement, maintain and ensure execution to standard service level agreements and metrics
- Work with Procurement Operations, Supplier Master and Procurement Systems teams to ensure the end-to-end Procure to Pay processes are working synchronously and effectively
- Work with Accounting to ensure Accounts Payable processes impacting closing of the books are completed accurately and timely, and identifying continuous improvement to streamline the process, including but not limited to account reconciliations, accruals and credit card reconciliations
- Support the Sourcing team with delivery of Sourcing strategies as it relates to Accounts Payable initiatives that can impact savings and opportunities
- Main point of contact for all internal and external escalations relating to the Accounts Payable processes
- Lead and support M&A / new affiliate onboarding and transitioning into Accounts Payable processes and tools
- Hire, train, supervise, motivate and develop Accounts Payable team members; manage schedules and workflow
- Lead the Employee Expense Report management and entries process
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or equivalent.
- 7+ years full cycle Accounts Payable experience and related systems (Such as Coupa and Netsuite)
- 3+ years experience leading and overseeing a high functioning Accounts Payable team
Desired
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work within constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills; able to manage priorities and workflow
- Acute attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

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