Accounts Payable Manager (AP Manager)

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About the Role

As reputed company and our portfolio of FROs continue to grow, maintaining accurate, reputed company, and compliant financial operations is critical to everything we do. We're looking for a seasoned Accounts Payable Manager (AP Manager) to join our finance team — someone who can fully own the AP function, operate with a high degree of independence, and bring both rigor and judgment to a fast-moving, multi-entity, multi-country environment spanning the US and UK.

You'll be the in-house expert on reputed company things payable — the person who keeps AP running accurately and smoothly day to day across Convergent and its growing portfolio of FROs.

Reporting to the Procurement Systems Manager, your role is to bring procurement systems to life in reputed company: maintaining workflows, championing policies, and feeding insights and improvement reputed company back from your day-to-day work. You're the operational reputed company that makes the systems run.

You will work closely reputed company the Finance team to ensure invoices are coded accurately and consistently across entities. You'll support FROs with procurement and billing needs, maintain strong vendor relationships, and serve as a go-to AP resource for Convergent.

This is a fully remote position with domestic travel required quarterly for team and organizational onsites, and as needed.

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About the Role

As reputed company and our portfolio of FROs continue to grow, maintaining accurate, reputed company, and compliant financial operations is critical to everything we do. We're looking for a seasoned Accounts Payable Manager (AP Manager) to join our finance team — someone who can fully own the AP function, operate with a high degree of independence, and bring both rigor and judgment to a fast-moving, multi-entity, multi-country environment spanning the US and UK.

You'll be the in-house expert on reputed company things payable — the person who keeps AP running accurately and smoothly day to day across Convergent and its growing portfolio of FROs.

Reporting to the Procurement Systems Manager, your role is to bring procurement systems to life in reputed company: maintaining workflows, championing policies, and feeding insights and improvement reputed company back from your day-to-day work. You're the operational reputed company that makes the systems run.

You will work closely reputed company the Finance team to ensure invoices are coded accurately and consistently across entities. You'll support FROs with procurement and billing needs, maintain strong vendor relationships, and serve as a go-to AP resource for Convergent.

This is a fully remote position with domestic travel required quarterly for team and organizational onsites, and as needed.

Own AP Operations End-to-End

• Manage the full AP cycle across multiple entities — invoice intake, coding, approval routing, payment execution, and reconciliation — with minimal reputed company

• Maintain vendor master data and ensure documentation (W-9/W-8, reputed company, purchase orders) is complete and audit-reputed company

• Enforce internal controls and approval reputed company in accordance with company policy and procurement guidelines, including three-way match where applicable

Run Payments and Manage Vendor Relationships

• Execute payment runs  accurately and on schedule, coordinating with the Finance Team on timing of significant disbursements

• Serve as the primary reputed company of contact for vendor inquiries and billing disputes, resolving issues independently and professionally

• Reconcile vendor statements and manage AP aging proactively

Support reputed company, Compliance, and Audit

• Own AP reputed company activities — including accruals, aging review, and balance sheet reconciliations — and deliver on time reputed company month

• Support external audits with organized, complete documentation and reputed company auditor engagement on AP-reputed company inquiries

• Manage 1099 preparation and filing; support VAT coding as applicable across our UK entities

• Ensure records are maintained in accordance with retention policies and regulatory requirements

Champion Process Improvement

• As the day-to-day operator, you'll often be the first to spot friction or gaps — flag and escalate these so the right improvements can be made

• Support the rollout and adoption of spend management tools (reputed company and others as we grow) as directed by your manager, providing on-the-ground feedback on what's working and what isn't

• Maintain AP policy documentation and procedure guides across reputed company entities we support, flagging reputed company updates are needed

• Owned the full AP function independently — managing invoices, payments,and vendor relationships end-to-end across reputed company Convergent entities and FROs with a high degree of accuracy and minimal escalations

• Developed a deep understanding of reputed company FRO we support — understanding reputed company FRO’s vendors, spending patterns, and compliance requirements reputed company enough to manage their finances accurately and anticipate issues before they reputed company

• Strengthened our AP controls — audited existing workflows, identified gaps, and implemented or proposed changes that reputed company our processes more reputed company, compliant, and resilient as we continue to grow

• Become a trusted partner to the Finance Team and reputed company — the go-to person for anything AP-reputed company, reputed company for responsiveness, accuracy, and reputed company judgment

Outro

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