Sonida Senior Living is one of the nation’s leading operators of independent living, assisted living and memory care communities for senior adults. The Company operates 91 communities that are home to nearly 7,800 residents across 20 states providing comfortable, safe, affordable communities where residents can form friendships, enjoy new experiences and receive personalized care from dedicated team members who treat them like family.
Job Description:
As an expert in your field, the Accounts Senior Manager, Accounts Payable will lead the month and year-end closing procedures and assist with the day-to-day function. This position will be located on site at our Dallas, Texas corporate office. The ability to understand the accounts payable process flow through all systems and collaborate effectively with many internal teams as well as vendors will be critical to success in this role. This is a high-visibility role, operating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment requiring the ability to adapt quickly.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, hire, train, and develop the accounts payable department team members.
- Manage the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual accounts payable processes including payment processing, timely close, 1099’s, etc.
- Oversee the centralization of the accounts payable department. This project will centralize the processing of all community level invoices to the corporate accounts payable department for processing.
- Oversee the pcard process and pcard administrator ensuring effective support of our pcard program, policy, and system.
- Manage the vCard payment process to increase vendor adoption and resolve exceptions through reporting, etc.
- Provide exceptional customer service to internal and external clients. Cultivate a culture that is customer service focused.
- Serve as an escalation point for internal and external collaborators, identifying discrepancies and recommending/leading solutions to resolve them.
- Strengthen capabilities of the accounts payable team by supporting initiatives, as assigned by leadership, in areas of improvements including cross-functional dependencies.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices to streamline accounts payable processes and increase efficiency.
- Improve and ensure compliance with invoice process workflows including routing, approval, and use of third-party invoice processing.
- Improve routing of invoices to our third-party invoice processor (Yardi Full Service).
- Effectively leverage the ability of our ERP system (Yardi) to increase efficiency in payments, voids, and workflows.
- Streamline the payment cycle by increasing the use of vendor vCard and ACH payments.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with teams across the organization to take on new tasks with a high level of difficulty.
- Conduct periodic reconciliations and reviews of certain accounts to ensure their accuracy.
- Oversee the accounts payable onboarding of newly acquired communities including vendor setup, vendor notifications, community training, and issuing pcards.
- Coordinate with internal and external auditors regarding accounts payable related deliverables as assigned.
- Assist with special projects including but not limited to process improvement, SOX improvement, and perform various other tasks and ad hoc analysis, as assigned.
- Effectively collaborate and communicate across departments and with management.
Education and Experience:
- Experience managing an accounts payable department with several team members in a multi-unit environment.
- Leadership experience and a desire to lead and develop your team.
- Experience with computer-based accounting systems, Yardi a plus.
- In-depth knowledge of accounts payable processes and best practices in a centralized environment.
Skill/Knowledge Requirements:
- Driven self-starter with a positive attitude that takes initiative and drives results.
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication.
- Solid organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and manage time effectively to meet deadlines.
- Adaptable to change and ability to pivot priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Willing to work extended hours when working towards reporting deadlines.
- Critical thinking skills to solve problems and identify opportunities for process improvement.
- Reconciles subsidiary vendors' ledger with accounts payable total and with general ledger.
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