Accounts Payable Director

AP Operations, Automation & Scalability • Own the end-to-end invoice-to-pay and payment lifecycle across legal entities, physician practices, and locations. • Serve as functional owner and subject-matter expert for Coupa/Coupa Pay, including invoice workflows, approval routing, supplier enablement, payment configuration, and settlement processes. • Develop a highly automated AP operating model using PO-based purchasing, EDI/e-invoicing, OCR, supplier portals, automated matching, and exception-based processing. • Establish measurable automation, productivity, service-level, and transaction-capacity targets; continually redesign processes to scale without corresponding increases in headcount. • Design and maintain structured 2-way and 3-way matching, approval workflows, and exception management. Vendor Payment Onboarding & Master Data • Own the financial/payment component of vendor onboarding following Procurement approval, including W-9s, banking instructions, remittance information, and required payment documentation. • Establish and maintain the appropriate payment method for each supplier, prioritizing virtual card and ACH where appropriate and using checks by exception. • Maintain strong vendor-master controls, including segregation of duties, independent validation of banking changes, duplicate-vendor controls, and fraud-prevention procedures. • Partner with Treasury on payment runs, cash requirements, positive pay, ACH controls, settlement, stale checks, and paym