Global Director, Procure-to-Pay & AP Excellence

CAI; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CAI, a professional services firm, seeks a Global Director, Accounts Payable to lead the worldwide Procure-to-Pay finance process and own procurement operations and AP. You will govern policies, vendor master data, PO compliance, invoice workflows, and payment execution to ensure timely, accurate payments and strong controls.

You’ll partner with Legal, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, and IT to drive compliance, system alignment, and centralized automation while supporting FP&A and acquisition

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Procurement, or related field preferred.
• 8+ years of procurement, AP, procure-to-pay, shared services, accounting operations, or finance process leadership experience, including experience in a multi-country or multi-entity environment.
• Experience with ERP systems, procurement workflows, purchasing controls, vendor master governance, workflow automation, internal controls, and acquisition integration is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the global procure-to-pay process, including procurement intake, purchase requisitions, vendor sourcing support, purchase order governance, vendor onboarding, invoice receipt, coding, approval routing, payment runs, exception handling, vendor inquiries, and AP month-end procedures.
• Establish global procurement and AP policies, procedures, controls, service levels, approval matrices, purchasing thresholds, preferred vendor requirements, and process metrics across all countries and shared services resources.
• Partner with Legal, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, IT, operations, and local finance teams to ensure vendor compliance, proper approvals, tax documentation, payment accuracy, purchasing discipline, contract visibility, and system alignment.
• Lead procurement and AP process centralization and automation, including reducing manual effort, purchasing workflows, vendor portals, OCR, procurement intake tools, T&E integrations, purchase order matching, and ERP-enabled controls.
• Manage shared services performance for routine procurement and AP processing, including work queues, productivity, defect rates, aging, turnaround times, purchase order compliance, and escalation management.
• Oversee the global corporate card and expense management processes, including card administration, approval and spending controls, transaction reconciliation, policy compliance, and timely processing of employee expenses.
• Support acquisition integration by mapping legacy procurement and AP processes, migrating vendors, aligning approval workflows, onboarding acquired entities to company policies, and stabilizing purchasing and payment operations.
• Maintain strong controls over vendor selection, vendor master data, segregation of duties, bank detail changes, duplicate payments, fraud prevention, purchase approvals, payment approvals, contract support, and documentation retention.

Skills

Procurement process

Accounts payable

Vendor management

ERP systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

CAI, a professional services firm, seeks a Global Director, Accounts Payable to lead the worldwide Procure-to-Pay finance process and own procurement operations and AP. You will govern policies, vendor master data, PO compliance, invoice workflows, and payment execution to ensure timely, accurate payments and strong controls.

You’ll partner with Legal, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, and IT to drive compliance, system alignment, and centralized automation while supporting FP&A and acquisition