Oversee the end-to-end Accounts Payable function, including invoice processing, payments, reconciliations, month-end close, vendor management, internal controls, and audit support. Manage an offshore AP team, monitor KPIs, resolve discrepancies, and partner cross-functionally with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Treasury, and Retail. Identify root causes, improve workflows, implement automation, strengthen controls, and drive scalable process improvements across high-volume AP operations.
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.
Who We Are:
Founded in 2014, AMIRI is a global luxury house based in Los Angeles. The brand's intrinsic California spirit is deeply rooted in authenticity and creativity, with collections influenced by Hollywood and infused with West Coast music culture.
The brand's trajectory has followed a clear global strategy, with biannual shows at Paris Fashion Week and a growing international presence through an expanding network of flagship destinations.
AMIRI's culture and contemporary vision prioritize quality, creativity, and innovation across every facet of the business. Founder and Creative Director Mike AMIRI continues to safeguard and shape the artistic vision of the brand and design studio.
As the brand's presence expands globally and continues to emerge as one of the fastest-growing businesses in the U.S. luxury fashion market, AMIRI is seeking visionary individuals with a creative and entrepreneurial mindset to join our team.
AMIRI Los Angeles, California, USA Office
810 Mateo St, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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