AP Payment and Controls Lead

AP Payment & Controls Lead owns end-to-end AP payment execution and controls to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payments via checks, ACH, and wires. Responsible for readiness validation, batch review, remittance processing, and maintaining segregation of duties and audit-ready documentation. Focus areas include vendor statement reconciliation, aging management, and driving on-time payment performance; develops and reports on key payment metrics, manages the ready-to-pay pipeline, manages prepayments and milestone payments, and collaborates with Procurement, Treasury, and Accounting to ensure proper coding, approvals, and recording. Requires strong knowledge of AP processes, internal controls, data extraction and reconciliation, ability to manage multiple priorities, and effective communication with vendors and internal stakeholders. Role supports SOX/internal control testing and may assist with system stabilization and process documentation related to payment and reconciliation workflows.