Sr AP Analyst
Overview
Join a rapidly growing technology organization as a Sr AP Analyst and take ownership of critical accounts payable, corporate expense, and payment operations. This is an opportunity to make an immediate impact in a high-volume, fast-paced environment where processes are continuously evolving and strong financial controls are essential.
You will lead full-cycle accounts payable activities, manage corporate card and employee expense programs, support month-end close, and identify opportunities to improve systems and workflows. The ideal candidate is adaptable, highly organized, comfortable working with a lean team, and motivated to build scalable processes in a high-growth environment.
What You’ll Do
- Manage full-cycle invoice processing, including invoice intake and verification, general ledger coding, approval routing, purchase order matching, and discrepancy resolution.
- Oversee vendor onboarding, vendor master file administration, banking change controls, and audit-ready tax documentation.
- Manage corporate card and spend management programs, including card issuance limits, policy compliance, receipt verification, and employee reimbursements.
- Resolve vendor payment inquiries and internal expense escalations while maintaining organized tracking and resolution workflows.
- Execute payment cycles, monitor settlement statuses, resolve rejected disbursements, and maintain appropriate segregation of duties.
- Perform monthly reconciliations across corporate card activity, vendor payables, bank statements, and the general ledger.
- Prepare payables aging reports, accrual entries, journal entries, corporate card reconciliations, and month-end close support schedules.
- Analyze system integration errors, coding variances, missing documentation, pending approvals, and other operational exceptions.
- Improve AP and expense processes across Ramp, Brex, and related accounting systems.
- Develop standardized procedures, documentation, dashboards, and workflow improvements.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to validate data integrity, improve system integrations, and eliminate recurring process friction.
- Use AI-enabled tools and automated workflows to improve compliance audits, reporting, and operational efficiency while maintaining appropriate human oversight.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in accounts payable, employee expense management, corporate cards, financial operations, or a related accounting function.
- Demonstrated expertise managing full-cycle accounts payable, including:
- Invoice intake and verification
- General ledger coding
- Purchase order matching
- Approval routing
- Vendor setup and maintenance
- Payment processing
- Issue resolution
- Advanced experience administering Ramp, including approval workflows, transaction auditing, spend reporting, and troubleshooting.
- Strong experience with corporate card programs, employee reimbursements, receipt verification, and spend policy compliance.
- Knowledge of vendor master file management, banking change controls, tax documentation, and audit-ready recordkeeping.
- Proficiency with payment disbursements, payables aging, accruals, journal entries, and account reconciliations.
- Experience supporting month-end close and resolving variances across card platforms, ledgers, and bank statements.
- Strong understanding of internal controls and segregation of duties.
- Advanced Excel skills with the ability to analyze data, identify root causes, and maintain data integrity.
- Ability to manage significant and fluctuating transaction volume, including purchase orders, non-PO invoices, and incomplete expense documentation.
- Exceptional attention to detail, organization, follow-through, and communication.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize competing deadlines, and collaborate effectively with employees, vendors, accounting, procurement, engineering, and other business partners.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have Skills
- Experience with Rillet, particularly AP, expense, reconciliation, and close workflows.
- Experience with Brex.
- Background in a high-growth technology or startup environment.
- Experience supporting multiple entities or currencies.
- Experience managing concurrent transaction integrations under tight deadlines.
- Workflow automation or dashboard development experience.
- Experience partnering with engineering or systems teams on integrations and process improvements.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled tools and automated workflows.
- Experience developing standardized operating procedures and process documentation.
- CPA certification or progress toward CPA.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related quantitative field preferred.
- 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in accounts payable, corporate expenses, financial operations, or a related function.
- Experience supporting month-end close in a high-volume, rapidly changing environment.
Other Requirements
- Work arrangement: Onsite in San Francisco, ideally five days per week.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth organization with changing priorities.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a lean team and take ownership from daily execution through continuous improvement.
- Strong commitment to confidentiality, financial controls, accurate documentation, and timely issue resolution.
- Contract duration is expected to be approximately 3–6 months, with potential for conversion based on business needs and performance.