Manager Accounts Payable
1100 E Warrenville Rd, Naperville, IL, USA, 60563
To help save our customers green, we need an amazing team who knows all about it. Our National Finance & Administration Services department oversees the management of the critical resources and infrastructure that our people need to get the job done at every level. This service department is designed to make sure our retail divisions and executive leadership receive the support they need to run a successful operation. Within Finance our teams include: Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Reporting, Tax and Treasury.
Position Type: Full-Time
Position Type: Full-Time
Starting Salary: $150,00
Salary Increases: Year 2 - $160,000 | Year 3 - $170,000
Work Location: Naperville, IL
This role is eligible to participate in ALDI’s Hybrid Work Program, which allows remote work up to 3 days per week (i.e., work remotely up to 3 days per week; work in-office at least 2 days per week).
Duties and Responsibilities:
Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Understands the overarching responsibility for performance and governance of onshore and offshore teams.
• Ensures the training, development, and performance of their team’s staff to retain a motivated, professional workforce that achieves their career objectives.
• Recruits and recommends qualified employees for their team’s staff positions.
• Establishes, communicates and evaluates job responsibilities and performance expectations to their team to ensure a mutual understanding of desired results.
• Understands the overarching company strategy while communicating and modeling the core values of the organization to create a sense of teamwork and membership among employees.
• Assists leadership with recommendations on financial and fiscal matters.
• Consults with leadership on the development of their team's strategy.
• Advises leadership to source external vendors for applicable services when appropriate.
• Liaises with applicable areas of the business to ensure timely and efficient communication flow.
• Consults with the business to effectively design and streamline applicable processes within the organization.
• Keeps up-to-date on external best practices and relevant changes to their field/area; communicates updates to leadership.
• Manages second level escalations for offshore teams.
• Develops change management processes and offers process improvement guidance.
• Performs compliance and controls reviews.
• Tracks and maintains outcomes of the outsourced partner's performance and compliance to the US Statement of Work and KPIs.
• Executes stakeholder management to ensure process compliance with internal and external business partners.
• Assists with senior management stakeholder governance calls, quarterly business reviews, and continuous improvement forum.
• Maintains vendor relationships, ensures accuracy in invoice processing and approval, processes payments, and prepares financial reports, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Ensures compliance with established operating policies and procedures.
• Ensures Accounts Payable Liabilities and aged receivers are addressed and actioned accordingly.
• Evaluates opportunities to improve customer support and business processes.
• Ensures service level agreements are being met.
• Provides support to national services, divisions and/or stores, contacting appropriate internal personnel or external vendors when further expertise is required.
• Manages their team by driving projects and tasks to completion through effective prioritization, work planning, resource allocation, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Identifies cost-saving opportunities and potential process improvements.
• Serves as the primary link between their team’s staff and leadership to ensure understanding of company goals, objectives, and opportunities for improvement.
• Complies with ALDI privacy and security requirements and policies if job responsibilities include possible access to confidential and/or sensitive information.
• Other duties as assigned.
Job-specific Competencies:
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
• Consistently demonstrates the ALDI Acts Competencies as outlined for the role.
• Ability to recommend, interpret, and/or apply company policies and procedures.
• Gives attention to detail and follows instruction.
• Ability to develop rapport, trust, and open communication that enhances the growth and job performance of direct reports.
• Understands the history, strategy, organizational authority, interdependence of job duties, products, systems, and services of the company.
• Conflict management skills.
• Strong knowledge of accounts payable processes.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with outsourcing partners.
• Thinks critically and analytically.
• Knowledge of the process for recording, classifying and summarizing financial transactions in accordance with company, statutory, tax, cost and reporting requirements.
• Prepares written materials to meet purpose and audience.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with internal and external parties.
• Understands cost/benefit analysis.
• Negotiation skills.
• Ability to facilitate group involvement when conducting meetings.
• Ability to understand, reconcile, and substantiate balances in associated General Ledger accounts.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field required.
• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in Accounting or Finance and retail operations required.
• Experience in accounting and shared service roles with a focus on outsourcing management preferred.
• Experience managing a staff of 3 or more preferred.
• Or, a combination of education and experience providing equivalent knowledge.
Physical Requirements:
• Work may be performed in an office, remote office or a combination of both where a computer and office equipment may be used as needed to perform duties.
• Regularly required to sit, reach, grasp, stand and move from one area to another.
• Constantly and repeatedly use keyboard/mouse.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, bend, lift and move up to 25 lbs.
Travel:
• International travel required.
• Up to 10%.
ALDI offers competitive wages and benefits, including:
- 401(k) Plan
- Company 401(k) Matching Contributions
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- PerkSpot National Discount Program
In addition, eligible employees are offered:
- Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Generous Vacation Time & 7 Paid Holidays
- Up to 6 Weeks Paid Parental Leave at 100% of pay
- Up to 2 Weeks Paid Caregiver Leave at 100% of pay
- Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Life, Dependent Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
ALDI is committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), we do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual stereotyping, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other protected characteristic. Employment may be contingent upon ALDI's receipt of an acceptable and job-related drug test, motor vehicle report, and/or reference check, as applicable and permissible by law.
