The Accounts Payable Manager will oversee the end-to-end Accounts Payable function, including an offshore AP team, and ensure accurate and timely invoice processing, payments, reconciliations, and month-end activities.
This role will also be expected to continuously assess current AP operations, identify opportunities for improvement, and proactively recommend and implement changes.
The ideal candidate is hands-on, comfortable challenging existing processes, and able to drive greater efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
Job Responsibilities and Duties:
- Oversee the end-to-end Accounts Payable function, including invoice processing, approvals, payments, vendor inquiries, reconciliations, and month-end close activities.
- Manage and provide day-to-day oversight of the offshore AP team, including workload, performance, quality, training, and issue escalation.
- Oversee three-way matching of purchase orders, receipts, and invoices, including resolution of quantity, pricing, and other discrepancies.
- Partner with Production, Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, Retail, Treasury, and Finance teams to resolve AP-related issues.
- Oversee vendor onboarding and master data maintenance, ensuring appropriate controls over vendor setup and banking changes.
- Coordinate domestic and international payment runs and ensure compliance with company approval and internal control requirements.
- Support month-end close, including AP reconciliations, accruals, cutoff, and reporting.
- Establish and monitor AP KPIs, including processing timeliness, accuracy, backlog, exceptions, and payment performance.
- Continuously assess AP operations, workflows, and controls to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, recurring issues, and opportunities for automation.
- Proactively recommend and drive process improvements, including challenging existing practices when a more effective approach is identified.
- Identify root causes of recurring AP issues and work cross-functionally to implement sustainable solutions.
- Maintain and improve AP policies, procedures, internal controls, and process documentation.
- Support internal and external audit requirements.
Knowledge, Skills, and Ability Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
- 7–10+ years of progressive Accounts Payable or accounting experience, including supervisory or management experience.
- Experience managing offshore, outsourced, or shared-service teams preferred.
- Experience in luxury fashion, apparel, retail, consumer products, or another inventory-driven environment preferred.
- Strong knowledge of AP processes, three-way matching, purchase orders, accruals, and month-end close.
- Experience with ERP and AP automation systems; NetSuite experience is a plus.
- Strong Excel and analytical skills.
- Strong understanding of internal controls and segregation of duties.
- Proactive, hands-on, and comfortable speaking up and constructively challenging the status quo.
- Strong problem-solving and process-improvement mindset, with the ability to identify root causes and drive solutions through implementation.
- Strong people-management skills, including the ability to effectively manage remote and offshore teams.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to prioritize and manage high transaction volumes in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
- 7-10+ years of progressive Accounts Payable or accounting experience
- Supervisory or management experience
- Experience managing offshore, outsourced, or shared-service teams
- Experience in luxury fashion, apparel, retail, consumer products, or another inventory-driven environment
- Strong knowledge of AP processes, three-way matching, purchase orders, accruals, and month-end close
- Experience with ERP and AP automation systems
- NetSuite experience
- Strong Excel and analytical skills
- Strong understanding of internal controls and segregation of duties
- Proactive, hands-on approach and comfort constructively challenging existing processes
- Strong problem-solving and process-improvement skills, including root-cause analysis and solution implementation
- Strong people-management skills, including managing remote and offshore teams
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to prioritize and manage high transaction volumes in a fast-paced environment
What We Do
Established in 2014 by Mike Amiri, the luxury menswear and womenswear brand, AMIRI, marries refined craftsmanship with the glamor of LA’s authentic skate and street culture. An LA native, founder Mike Amiri began his career in fashion by handcrafting unique stage pieces for iconic hard rockers such as Axl Rose and Steven Tyler. Eternally intrigued by such dark, heroic figures, his flair for tapping into this rock ‘n’ rock ethos led him to design an exclusive capsule collection for the LA-concept store, Maxfield. Since this debut collection, Mike established a distinct design signature with his deconstructed, hand-embellished denim jeans, leather jackets, grungy flannel shirting and graphic tee-shirts — all grounded in the nostalgic touchstones of his Californian youth. Early styles, like the MX1 jeans and Bandana Buckle boots, remain the pillars of AMIRI today, and the designer’s nascent DIY sensibility has since evolved into a studied and distinct savoir-faire. Today, AMIRI presents a collection bi-annually at Paris Fashion Week and is available from some of the most renowned retailers worldwide, such as Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman in New York, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London and Joyce in Hong Kong. As its global presence grows, AMIRI remains faithful to its roots: each garment is still a labor of love, cut from the finest fabrics, produced in majority in LA, and often even hand-finessed in-house. More recently, production of leathergoods and tailored suiting moved to Italy. Since 2018, Mike Amiri has been a member of the CFDA. In 2018, he was also nominated for the Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent at the CFDA Fashion Awards and honored with the Emerging Talent Award at the Footwear News Achievement Awards. In 2019, Mike was nominated for the Menswear Designer of the Year at the CFDA Fashion Awards.
