General Accounting Manager

Major Responsibilities:

• The Senior AP Deployment Specialist serves as a dedicated Accounts Payable Operations representative assigned full-time to the global invoice intake and processing transformation program.
• Acting as the AP Operations throughout the deployment lifecycle, the role supports discovery, process reviews, business requirement validation, testing, deployment readiness, go-live, hyper-care, and stabilization activities.
• The position operates separately from day-to-day Accounts Payable processing teams.
• Working closely with country AP teams, project teams, and technology partners to ensure future-state solutions are practical, sustainable, compliant, and aligned with AP operating requirements.
• AP Business Ownership: throughout discovery, design validation, testing, deployment, hyper-care, and stabilization, own AP operations activities.
• Ensure documented requirements and configured solutions accurately reflect AP operational needs, controls, exception handling, and business requirements.
• Act as the primary working-level representative between AP Operations and the deployment program.
• Champion AP user readiness, operational adoption, and long-term sustainability of future-state processes.

Skills and Abilities Required:

• Participate in country discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and design discussions.
• Demonstrate and explain current-state AP processes, controls, approval workflows, exception handling, and operational practices.
• Identify country-specific legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, language, and operational requirements.
• Review and validate Process Design Documents, business requirements, process flows, controls, and operating procedures.
• Develop end-to-end UAT scenarios and business test scripts based on real AP operational activities.
• Execute UAT and validate solutions against approved business requirements.
• Identify defects, process gaps, usability concerns, operational impacts, and business risks.
• Support deployment planning, readiness assessments, cutover activities, and country go-live preparations.
• Act as an AP user during go-live and hyper-care activities.
• Monitor user adoption, operational effectiveness, exception trends, and process performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve process effectiveness, user experience, controls, and operational efficiency.
• Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement activities for future deployment waves.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in Accounts Payable, Procure-to-Pay, Shared Services, Finance Operations, or AP transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of invoice processing, approvals, exception management, controls, and payment readiness processes.
• Experience participating in UAT, deployment, go-live, hyper-care, or operational improvement initiatives.
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively across global teams and multiple countries.
• Experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA is preferred.
• Experience supporting ERP, invoice processing, workflow, or automation deployments.
• Exposure to intelligent document processing, workflow automation, RPA, or AI-enabled finance solutions.
• Experience supporting global or multi-country transformation programs.
• Experience in Shared Services or Global Business Services organizations.