Accounts Payable Leader: Drive Process Excellence & Compliance

University of Kansas Medical Center; United States; On-site; USD 81,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Kansas Medical Center is seeking a Senior Accounts Payable Manager to lead the AP function, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant processing of invoices and payments while maintaining strong internal controls and compliance with university policies and state guidelines.

This role collaborates with Procurement, Central Finance, and departmental professionals to support financial reporting, cash flow management, and audit requirements.

Qualifications

• Five years of progressive accounts payable or accounting experience.
• Three years supervising, training, and developing teams.
• Experience in a large, complex organizational setting.
• Experience with automated, high-volume accounts payable environments.
• Experience improving or standardizing processes through workflow tools, OCR, AI, and electronic invoicing.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all accounts payable activities including invoice and payment processing, customer service, and performance monitoring.
• Supervise, coach, and develop team of accounts payable professionals, including workload management, and performance evaluations.
• Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures using a risk-based approach to ensure strong internal controls and compliance with university policies and state guidelines.
• Establish, monitor, and report on service level expectations including invoice cycle times, backlog, aged invoices, and other key performance indicators.
• Review third-party reporting related to policy compliance, duplicate payments, and spend activity to identify potential control risks, unusual trends, or exceptions and coordinate follow-up as needed.
• Serve as primary point of escalation for supplier disputes, complex issues, and departmental concerns related to accounts payable.
• Manage administration of business procurement and travel credit cards including issuance of new cards, credit limits, inactivating cards and card reconciliation/payment.
• Collaborate with Procurement and other departments to improve procure-to-pay processes and ensure timely and accurate invoice processing and payment administration.
• Support Central Finance in month-end and year-end close activities related to accounts payable, including account reconciliations.
• Manage accounts payable related audit requirements.
• Complete 1099 reporting for Kansas Bridging Plan participants.
• Serve as Workday accounts payable module business owner, ensuring alignment with university needs and policies, and participating in system upgrades and enhancements.
• Develop and deliver training materials, guides, and workshops on accounts payable policies and procedures.
• Serve as a trusted business advisor to campus partners by acting as an industry expert in accounts payable best practices.

Skills

Accounts payable

Team supervision

Large organization experience

High-volume AP

Workflow tools / OCR / AI

Electronic invoicing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Workday ERP

Oracle ERP

SAP ERP

Banner

PeopleSoft

Dynamics

Job description

University of Kansas Medical Center is seeking a Senior Accounts Payable Manager to lead the AP function, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant processing of invoices and payments while maintaining strong internal controls and compliance with university policies and state guidelines.

This role collaborates with Procurement, Central Finance, and departmental professionals to support financial reporting, cash flow management, and audit requirements.