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Chewy Manager, Accounts Payable II in Plantation, Florida
Chewy is seeking an Accounts Payable Manager II , who will oversee the development and performance of the company’s Accounts Payable team in our Plantation, FL office. The ideal candidate for this position will be a skilled finance professional responsible for managing our payment and reporting team, as well as our AP Freight and AP Canada team. The Accounts Payable Manager II will also be responsible for monitoring related internal control standards, developing analytical reports to support daily operations, and ensuring the integrity of all departmental work.
A successful candidate will be one who can further implement departmental efficiencies, maintain strong internal controls over the Accounts Payable process, and provide excellent customer service to both internal and external parties. Having a background in AP and Treasury is critical to understanding all the facets of the group. This role will be involved in numerous projects that impact AP and will need to understand the detailed processes and accounting transactions.
What You’ll Do:
Responsible for ultimate oversight and responsibility of the AP processes, procedures, and team, including but not limited to compliance with policies and procedures.
Implement projects to migrate processes to more efficient methods and continue to evaluate existing procedures to discover opportunities for process improvement.
Build and maintain relationships with employees, clients, and vendors.
Manage the accounts payable staff, to include training, coaching, and performance appraisals, creating an promoting continuing professional learning and development programs for team members.
Ensure timely and accurate payment processing for US and Canada Operations and act as liaison to AP team, internal and external customers as it relates to payment inquiries.
Manage daily ACH fraud filter transactions, positive pay exceptions, and resolve payment returns and payment transmission errors.
Provide monthly reporting and forecasting on accounts payable balances to Treasury team.
Liaison with Treasury/Accounting teams to ensure that any newly created disbursement bank accounts are properly set up in ORACLE ERP and all AP users and access are accurately maintained on bank portals.
Partner with bank customer support and internal IT, Financial Systems teams to identify ACH, Check, wire payment template specs and requirements for new disbursement accounts.
Perform all testing related to electronic ACH, wire payment transmission to ensure Payment Manager files are successfully received by bank for processing before moving to production environment.
Perform MICR and positive pay file testing with bank to ensure successful printing and processing of check payments before moving to production environment.
Actively create, schedule, review, and update over 100+ Payment Process Request templates across several business units, legal entities, currencies, payment methods and other items.
Identify and establish key AP metrics and targets (daily, weekly, monthly, and annual). Provide regular aging analysis of open payables balances or other reports as needed by management.
Understand multi-tiered GL structure to accurately assign expenses to proper G/L accounting segment.
Assist Accounting team with month-end close processes, account reconciliation questions.
Manage multi-currency transactions across business units.
Assist with special projects and ad hoc tasks such as providing supporting documents to external auditors or management team.
Maintain necessary files for audit trail and assist in performance of internal/external audit of department activities.
What You’ll Need:
Bachelor's Degree, Treasury experience/background preferred.
Experience with International, multi-currency payment processing preferred.
5+ years of related experience and 3+ years of management experience.
Intermediate Excel skills including V-lookups, pivot tables, etc.
Strong process and analytical skills with proven ability to interact with all levels of the organization.
Excellent communication skills working with both internal/external customers/vendors.
Critical thinking, problem resolution, and detail oriented.
Experience with SOX- based control requirements preferred.
Experience in a public company with regulatory experience.
Ambitious and self-starting.
Outstanding multi-tasking skills.
Ability to prioritize and manage time.
Strong sense of urgency.
Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR@chewy.com .
If you have a question regarding your application, please contact HR@chewy.com .
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