Global Director – Accounts Payable, Procurement

🔥 15 hours ago

🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

💵 €125k - €150k / year

⏰ 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

• Lead the global Procure-to-Pay finance process, including procurement operations and accounts payable • Own procurement policy, purchasing controls, vendor sourcing support, vendor master governance, purchase order compliance, invoice intake, approval workflows, payment execution, expense processing coordination, AP controls, shared services performance, and AP/procurement integration for acquired companies • Own procurement intake, purchase requisitions, vendor sourcing support, purchase order governance, vendor onboarding, invoice receipt and coding, approval routing, payment runs, exception handling, vendor inquiries, and AP month-end procedures • Establish global procurement and AP policies, procedures, controls, service levels, approval matrices, purchasing thresholds, preferred vendor requirements, and process metrics • Partner with Legal, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, IT, operations, and local finance teams • 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, including work queues, productivity, defect rates, aging, turnaround times, purchase order compliance, and escalation management • Oversee global corporate card and expense management processes • 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, approvals, contract support, and documentation retention

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of procurement, AP, procure-to-pay, shared services, accounting operations, or finance process leadership experience, including 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 is preferred • Experience driving process improvement across a global or complex organization is highly desirable