Head of APAR Analytics, Automation & Compliance

Texas Instruments; Bouchard (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Instruments is seeking an APAR Analytics & Compliance Director to lead a data-driven, scalable finance function. You will shape analytics, governance, and risk management across APAR, partnering with IT, Internal Audit, and business stakeholders.

You'll build a high-performing team, establish KPIs, and drive automation and AI-enabled improvements to protect assets and optimize financial operations globally, while fostering a culture of curiosity and disciplined problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Lead the APAR analytics strategy and develop actionable insights that improve financial performance, operational efficiency and decision-making.
• Establish meaningful KPIs, dashboards and analytical frameworks across accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Use transactional data to identify trends, exceptions, root causes, control gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and maintain strong data governance practices, including data quality, ownership, lineage and reconciliation.
• Enable predictive and exception-based analytics to shift APAR from reactive processing toward proactive management.
• Build analytical capabilities within the team and increase effective use of data throughout APAR.
• Lead cross-functional projects focused on simplifying, standardizing and automating APAR processes.
• Evaluate existing processes and systems to identify opportunities for automation, digitization and improved controls.
• Apply process improvement methodologies and process-mining techniques to identify bottlenecks, exceptions and non-value-added activity.
• Translate business problems into technical requirements and partner with IT and other organizations to implement scalable solutions.
• Lead project governance, requirements definition, testing, implementation and change management for APAR initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI, workflow automation and emerging technologies to finance operations.
• Own and continuously strengthen the APAR control and compliance framework.
• Ensure appropriate controls supporting SOX requirements, PCI DSS and applicable global regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Internal Audit, external auditors and business stakeholders on control design, testing and remediation.
• Design controls into processes and systems rather than relying primarily on manual detective controls.
• Establish continuous monitoring and analytics to proactively identify control failures, unusual transactions and emerging risks.
• Assess payment, fraud, data privacy, access and operational risks across APAR.
• Support segregation-of-duties, access-control and sensitive-data requirements across financial systems and processes.
• Maintain Compliance policies and procedures and ensure they reflect regulatory obligations, corporate requirements, industry best practices while also addressing new business initiatives and technology enhancements.
• Stay abreast of related industry trends and standards.
• Provide technical leadership across B2B and B2C payment processes and technologies.
• Understand payment methods and infrastructure including ACH, wires, cards, virtual cards, direct debit, payment gateways, bank interfaces, settlement and reconciliation.
• Understand system integrations including APIs, REST services, JSON, middleware, SFTP and other system-to-system interfaces.
• Partner with IT and platform teams on architecture and integration decisions affecting APAR.
• Evaluate emerging payment technologies and their implications for operational efficiency, customer/supplier experience, security and risk.
• Manages relationships with vendors, leads QBRs, participates in conferences, etc
• Build and scale a high-performing management team
• Establish clear priorities and accountability while developing deeper technical and analytical capabilities within the team.
• Build strong partnerships across Finance, IT and business organizations.
• Communicate complex technical, financial and risk topics clearly to both technical teams and senior leadership.
• Create an environment that encourages curiosity, disciplined problem solving and continuous improvement.
• Build a culture of psychological safety, respect, and inclusion

Job description

Texas Instruments is seeking an APAR Analytics & Compliance Director to lead a data-driven, scalable finance function. You will shape analytics, governance, and risk management across APAR, partnering with IT, Internal Audit, and business stakeholders.

You'll build a high-performing team, establish KPIs, and drive automation and AI-enabled improvements to protect assets and optimize financial operations globally, while fostering a culture of curiosity and disciplined problem solving.