Global Director – Accounts Payable

🔥 3 hours ago

🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📝 Accounts Payable

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CAI

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Healthcare • Manufacturing

CAI is a global company that provides comprehensive engineering and consulting services. Specializing in commissioning and qualification, building commissioning, asset management, quality and compliance, digital transformation, and automation, CAI focuses on helping clients in highly regulated industries such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare. Their services are designed to enhance operational readiness, increase efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance, thereby accelerating clients' paths to success. With a vast global presence, CAI serves a variety of sectors, offering expertise in projects ranging from biotech facilities to data centers.

📋 Description

• Establish global procurement and accounts payable policies, procedures, controls, service levels, approval matrices, purchasing thresholds, preferred vendor requirements, and process metrics • Own the global procure-to-pay process, including procurement intake, purchase requisitions, vendor sourcing support, purchase order governance, vendor onboarding, invoice receipt, coding, approval routing, payment runs, exception handling, vendor inquiries, and AP month-end procedures • Partner with Legal, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, IT, operations, and local finance teams on vendor compliance, approvals, tax documentation, payment accuracy, purchasing discipline, contract visibility, and system alignment • Lead procurement and AP process centralization and automation, including purchasing workflows, vendor portals, OCR, procurement intake tools, T&E integrations, purchase order matching, and ERP-enabled controls • Manage shared services performance for routine procurement and AP processing, including work queues, productivity, defect rates, aging, turnaround times, purchase order compliance, and escalations • Oversee global corporate card and expense management processes, including card administration, spending controls, transaction reconciliation, policy compliance, and employee expense processing • Support acquisition integration by mapping legacy processes, migrating vendors, aligning approval workflows, onboarding acquired entities, and stabilizing purchasing and payment operations • Maintain controls over vendor selection, vendor master data, segregation of duties, bank detail changes, duplicate payments, fraud prevention, purchase approvals, payment approvals, contract support, and documentation retention

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Procurement, or related field preferred • 8+ years of procurement, AP, procure-to-pay, shared services, accounting operations, or finance process leadership experience • Experience in a multi-country or multi-entity environment • Experience with ERP systems, procurement workflows, purchasing controls, vendor master governance, workflow automation, internal controls, and acquisition integration preferred • Experience driving process improvement across a global or complex organization highly desirable