Accounts Payable Lead
Accounts Payable Lead
Anchorage, AK (on-site)
$65,000+ DOE
Use your accounting experience to help build Alaska’s future!
For over five decades, this Alaska-based construction firm has delivered some of the state’s most complex and significant projects—from healthcare campuses and civic facilities to remote infrastructure in challenging environments. The company takes pride in doing things right, supporting its people, and fostering a culture where hard work and balance go hand in hand. As operations continue to grow, the finance team is expanding to strengthen cost accuracy, efficiency, and strategic decision-making across a diverse portfolio.
Your day-to-day: You’ll lead the Accounts Payable function, ensuring invoices are processed accurately and on time while mentoring and developing your AP team. Collaborating across departments, you’ll resolve payment issues, maintain strong vendor relationships, and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency. You’ll track KPIs, produce reports for leadership, support audits, and drive system enhancements, including ERP and automation tools. In addition, you’ll apply accounting expertise to analyze transactions, support compliance, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.
We’re looking for:
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field.
- 5+ years of progressive accounts payable experience, 2 years in a supervisory or lead role with direct reports in a high-volume environment.
- Experience with Sage 300 or any other mid-size ERP System, along with AP automation tools and electronic payment platforms.
- Experience leading or supporting system implementations or process reengineering highly desired.
- Ability to work well under pressure, manage high volume, and independently prioritize workload, while working on multiple projects, deadlines, and stakeholders
- Intermediate Microsoft Office skills and proficiencies (Outlook, Word, and Excel) and the ability to manipulate large amounts of data required
- Must be proactive about identifying process inefficiencies & proposing workflow improvements
- Highly organized and detail-oriented; high degree of accuracy
- Strong leadership, team management, and team building skills
- Capable of quickly comprehending new information and technologies
- Capable of working in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication skills; must be able to document and explain process change, system controls or compliance requirements concisely
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