Manager, Accounts Payable (Remote)

Are you ready to drive results and define an industry? Join us as a Manager, Accounts Payable! Experience the best of both worlds with this role based in our innovative Remote office. This position requires a strong and diverse skillset in relevant areas to drive success. An attractive remuneration of a competitive salary is on offer for the successful candidate.   #WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight. About The Role CrowdStrike is looking to hire a Manager, Accounts Payable to join their accounting team. This role will provide strong leadership over the offshore Accounts Payable team in their day-to-day Global AP operations and report directly to the Director, Accounting. The ideal candidate will be a Coupa expert and a key player in leading a world class global accounts payable department that can efficiently scale with the CrowdStrike s rapidly growing business. This involves leading AP deliverables, driving process efficiencies by automation, ensuring compliance with SLAs/critical metrics, partnering with key collaborators, and improving and nurturing a team focus on prompt and effective customer service. This position will be required to have demonstrated in-depth knowledge of a modern accounts payable function  including finding opportunities to implement standard methodologies and ensure continuous improvement of the AP function at the Company. This role requires maintaining confidentiality and treat sensitive information with discretion, act as a role model for ethical behavior, and be an advocate of and follow Company policies. It requires excellent people, communication and writing skills; be able to collaborate across various business units, regions and be self-motivated. What You'll Do • Ensure all invoices are processed timely and accurately for both US and international vendors by the team. • Monitor billing email inbox to ensure both internal and external inquiries are being addressed by team members accurately and timely. • Manage invoice approvals and coding, ensure workflow routings are appropriate and accelerated as needed; address any AP aging and unapproved invoices. • Ensure high priority, past due, and/or other urgent requests are addressed across departments. • Analyze expense data to identify trends for vendor payments and travel • Lead and coordinate meetings with departments to answer questions and ensure processes are being followed. • Maintain repository of contracts and key terms and track and monitor actuals against contract expenditures. • Understand relationships of the firms transfer pricing agreements and implications for international vendor payment processing. • Assist with month-end accruals, cash and credit card account reconciliations, and intercompany payables and receivables. • Coordinating quarterly operating cash forecast with FP • Lead month-end close, quarterly audit schedules for completion. System • Develop and monitor KPI's and create progress reports, establish productivity benchmarks, perform root cause analysis of any process gaps and/or oversights, and provide problem-solving assessments and feedback of outcomes. • Enhance reporting for stakeholders to ensure transparency and meaningful analysis and insights can be gained. • Use BI tools for Creating and Monitoring output-based performance reports and matrix. • Assist in any ad-hoc requests or projects as needed, implementations for new customizations, design enhancements, process improvements, integrations with ERP software (NetSuite), audit requests, etc. Continuously review and enhance the AP process, functions, and capabilities within Coupa such as dashboards. • Stay alert to new threats and trends in AP area and lead conversations on how AP team needs to mould and adapt to stay proactive. Compliance • Ensure all AP processes are SOX compliant on design and implementation and ensure all required d

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