The Senior Expense Accountant owns AP close and vendor account management, including complex and high-value vendor relationships, reporting to the VP of Finance. This role also owns the corporate card program and expense policy compliance, and mentors the Expense Accountant, building a resilient, cross-trained expense accounting function.
Accountabilities
- Own AP month-end close and vendor account reconciliation, hitting a 5-business-day close target.
- Manage complex and high-value vendor relationships, including payment terms negotiation and escalations.
- Own the corporate card program (Payhawk) and expense policy compliance, including periodic T&E audits.
- Drive AP and expense automation (e.g., OCR invoice capture, automated 3-way match, self-service reporting) to sustain close speed and accuracy as transaction volume scales.
- Partner with FP&A and Procurement to drive spend visibility, budget accuracy, and continuous improvement of the source-to-pay process.
- Review and mentor junior accountant(s), building a resilient, cross-trained expense accounting function.
Key Responsibilities
- Review payment runs (ACH/wire) and approval workflows, ensuring 2-way/3-way match discipline and segregation of duties.
- Identify opportunities to capture early-payment discounts and streamline vendor onboarding.
- Drive automation and continuous improvement of the AP/expense workflow (invoice OCR, automated 3-way match, spend analytics and self-service reporting).
- Conduct periodic T&E audits to ensure expense policy compliance.
- Partner with FP&A and Procurement on spend visibility, budget variance analysis, and source-to-pay improvements.
- Negotiate payment terms with high-value vendors and resolve escalations.
- Provide day-to-day review and coaching to the Expense Accountant.
Requirements
Required:
- 5+ years in AP or expense accounting.
- Experience with NetSuite and a modern expense/corporate card platform (e.g., Payhawk, Ramp, Brex, or Navan).
- Comfortable operating in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment typical of a scaling global SaaS company.
- Comfortable owning payment run governance, approval workflow design, and segregation of duties.
- Prior experience reviewing or mentoring junior accounting staff.
- Treats expense policy compliance as a control, not just a checklist.
- Escalates vendor risk early, before it affects payment timing.
- Familiarity with SOX or equivalent internal-controls frameworks, and experience supporting SOC 2 or financial-statement audit requests related to AP, T&E, and vendor controls.
- Comfortable pushing back on non-compliant spend, including from senior stakeholders.
- Full professional fluency in English, written and spoken.
- Valid work authorization for the location of hire required; Omilia is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
- Willingness to travel periodically for distributed team time.
Nice to have:
- Professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CPA, CIMA or international equivalent).
- Comfortable using AI tools (e.g. Claude) and automation platforms (e.g. n8n) to streamline reconciliations, payment processing and reporting.
- Experience scaling AP/expense processes through high-growth periods (e.g., ERP migration, M&A integration, or multi-entity expansion) common in SaaS companies.
Omilia Note
- Contribute actively and effectively as an integrated team member.
- Act as an Omilia ambassador in all interactions.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation;
- Long-term employment with the working days vacation;
- Development in professional growth (courses, training, etc);
- Being part of successful cutting-edge technology products that are making a global impact in the service industry;
- Proficient and fun-to-work-with colleagues;
- Apple gear
Omilia is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe that embracing diversity in all its forms enriches our workplace and drives our collective success. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, valued, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives without regard to factors such as race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, heredity, disability, age, or veteran status, all eligible candidates will be given consideration for employment.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in AP or expense accounting
- Experience with NetSuite
- Experience with a modern expense or corporate card platform such as Payhawk, Ramp, Brex, or Navan
- Experience working in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment
- Experience owning payment-run governance, approval workflow design, and segregation of duties
- Prior experience reviewing or mentoring junior accounting staff
- Experience treating expense-policy compliance as a control
- Experience identifying and escalating vendor risk before payment impacts
- Familiarity with SOX or equivalent internal-controls frameworks
- Experience supporting SOC 2 or financial-statement audit requests related to AP, T&E, and vendor controls
- Ability to challenge non-compliant spending, including spending by senior stakeholders
- Full professional fluency in written and spoken English
- Valid work authorization for the location of hire
- Willingness to travel periodically for distributed team time
- Professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CIMA, or international equivalent
- Comfort using AI tools such as Claude and automation platforms such as n8n
- Experience scaling AP and expense processes during high-growth periods, ERP migration, M&A integration, or multi-entity expansion
What We Do
At Omilia we are engaged to provide the most human-like human-to-machine communication experiences and technologies in order to help large enterprises improve the customer care experience. Starting out of a small garage, Omilia is now serving 1 billion conversations, in 30 languages, across 17 countries. With one of the fastest growing NLU solutions in the market, Omilia has been recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms, as well as in the IDC Marketscape for Worldwide Conversational AI Software Platforms for Customer Service 2021. Our technology allows the enterprise to take advantage of Open-Question customer care with end-to-end Self-Service to greatly improve customer experience and significantly decrease operational costs. In 2016 Omilia expanded to USA and Canada, counting 33 full production deployments worldwide and case studies with proven KPIs and ROIs across various industries.








