Accounts Payable Manager

Company: Verra Mobility
Location: Mesa
Posted on: March 27, 2020

Job Description:

Who we are...Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. A combination of the global capabilities and talents of American Traffic Solutions (ATS), Highway Toll Administration (HTA), and Euro Parking Collection (EPC), the company develops technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. Verra Mobility fosters the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities by operating more than 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras in more than 200 jurisdictions across North America. The company also creates smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for more than 8.5 million vehicles. Verra Mobility is a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year through connectivity with more than 50 individual tolling authorities and more than 400 issuing authorities. Arizona-based Verra Mobility Corp. currently operates in 15 countries and in 22 languages.

Focused on solutions that help the world move safely and easily, Verra Mobility builds safe cities, smart roadways, and the connected systems that tie them together. The company is constantly looking toward the future, ensuring it creates relevant solutions today that will work tomorrow. Seeking to understand new customers, regions, and businesses that will shape tomorrow's smart mobility experiences, Verra Mobility strives to ensure more people around the world reach their destination safely and easily. Keeping its core principles front and center, Verra Mobility is fueled by relationships, driven by impact, guided by what's right, and energized by what's next.

Culture

Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly-growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values-Do What's Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It-in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.Position OverviewVerra Mobility's Mesa office is hiring an Accounts Payable Manager. The accounts payable manager is responsible for managing the Company's accounts payable/disbursement processes in a professional, competent and collaborative manner. This position reports to the VP/Controller and oversees the ongoing management of accounts payable staff and processes associated with the receipt, approval, entry and payment of vendor invoices, capturing and recording month-end accruals, processing of purchase orders, communication with buyers and vendors and performing standard month-end close procedures such as account reconciliations. This position is responsible for ensuing company policies and procedures are being adhered to as they pertain to accounts payable and for making ongoing process improvements in the processing of transactions.Essential Responsibilities

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• Direct the accounts payable function including vendor relationships, management of the accounts payable team, annual 1099 reporting, processing of travel and entertainment (T&E) spend and administering company-issued credit cards.
  
• Develop, implement and maintain systems, procedures and policies related to accounts payable and disbursement functions to ensure adherence to company guidelines.
  
• Monitor and perform controls over the processing and payment of invoices to ensure they operate effectively in accordance with internal controls over financial reporting under rule 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley.
  
• Perform ongoing evaluation of existing processes, make recommendations for improvements and adopt best practices.
  
  
• Record journal entries and perform monthly reconciliations for certain balance sheet accounts related to accounts payable and related accruals.
  
• Provide audit support as requested, including accumulating invoice and disbursement support.
  
• Manages monthly closing of financial records and posting of month-end information; ensures accuracy of financial statements as it pertains to accounts payable and related accruals.
  
• Provides accounting assistance to project managers and operations staff; responds to financial questions/concerns to meet business needs.
  
• Selects and hires employees for the groups mentioned above. Trains and evaluates employees to enhance their performance, development, and work product. Addresses performance issues and makes recommendations for personnel actions.
  
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  
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  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, accounting, finance, or related field
    
  • Minimum 2 years of leadership experience
    
  • Minimum 7 years of accounting experience
    
  • Experience working with generally accepted accounting principles including establishing month-end accruals and the ability to perform account reconciliations and basic financial statement analysis
    
  • Experience designing and implementing new processes is highly preferred
    
    
  • Experience working with a variety of GL packages, AP modules and accounting software including 1099 filing experience
    
    
  • Strong personal computer and business solutions software skills
    
  • Strong interpersonal skills for interacting accountants, upper management, vendors and other stakeholders
    
  • Good communication skills for communicating with support personnel and management
    
    Aligned with Verra Mobility Values
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    • Do What's Right - We've committed to doing the right thing for each other and for our customers - integrity is our DNA
      
    • Lead With Grace - We embrace the importance of our colleagues and customers and always treat them with kindness and grace.
      
    • Own It - We foster a culture of accountability and excellence, where going the extra mile is standard practice.
      
    • Win Together - We are ambitious and like to win, but we know we win more when we include others and work together.
      
      Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

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