Job: CORPORATE MANAGER, ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

Jobing Description

CORPORATE MANAGER, ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

About Our Organization
Partners HealthCare is an integrated health care system founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to its two academic medical centers, the Partners system includes community and specialty hospitals, community health centers, a physician network, home health and longterm care services, and other healthrelated entities. Partners is one of the nation's leading biomedical research organizations and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Partners HealthCare is a notprofit organization. We have opportunities in Finance, Information Systems, Human Resources, and many other areas that work behind the scenes in support of the Partners mission.
General Overview
Under the general direction the Director of Materials Management Transactional Operations, the Accounts Payable Corporate Manager manages the range of AP activities including image capture and archiving, payment request processing, policy compliance, exceptions management and reporting, and disbursement. Incumbent has continuous interaction via scheduled meetings with Partners check signers , the five officer and directors who have approval authority for spends above the Partners threshold value as established by the audit committee of the PHS Board of Directors.
Responsibilities
Principal duties include but aren t limited to:
Hiring, training, motivating, and coursecorrecting a production staff sufficient to process approximately 1.5mm invoices, 160k check requests, and 70k expense claims annually
Disbursing approximately 280k businesstobusiness and 40k businesstoperson payments annually, both electronically via the automated clearing house and on paper via check
Auditing payment requests for policy compliance
Communicating deviations from policy to the CFOs of the affiliate hospitals
Optimizing such invoice receipt, archiving, processing, and payment automation technologies as are currently deployed in AP and continuously seeking and testing new and better ways to electronify invoices and payments
Liaising on behalf of PHS Finance Operations with respect to the affiliates APrelated activities
Requirements
Four year undergraduate degree required, MBA encouraged
Minimum five (5) years management experience required, preferably in Accounts Payable and/or Purchasing
Skills/Abilities/Competencies
Working knowledge of PeopleSoft Financials or an analogous ERP program
Unimpeachable verbal and written communications
Fluency with standard PC office automation software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint
High degree or comfort with the policies, procedures and controls governing the general ledger (generally) and ERPbased GL systems (specifically) in large organizations
EEO Statement
Partners HealthCare System is an Equal Opportunity Employer