Accounts Payable Team Lead

Compensation: $28.00-$32.00/hr

Location: Hybrid at GOLFTEC Headquarters in Englewood, CO

About GOLFTEC:
As a world leader in golf instruction & simulation, with over 200 locations across the globe, GOLFTEC strives to create A WAY BETTER CAREER for our employees.  This is so our team can provide THE WAY TO WAY BETTER results for our customers by improving their golf game with professional coaches and goal-oriented game plans that include our video practice, swing training, and club fitting technology.  We are looking for leaders, innovators, creators, and ambitious professionals to join our talented team.  If you’re ready to pursue your fullest potential, we want to get to know you!
Position Summary:
GOLFTEC is seeking an experienced AP Team Lead to join our team. The AP Team Lead is a key leader and member of the accounting team reporting to the AP Supervisor. The AP Team Lead is responsible for overseeing the AP process for the trade payables team by ensuring timely and accurate payments to our vendors as well as leading, coaching, and developing the AP team. The position will support and partner with trade payable team members to manage our top vendor account reconciliations and partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to proactively manage vendor invoice discrepancies to ensure timely payment to our vendors.   

The ideal candidate for the position is a motivated professional with a positive team focused attitude, with strong attention to detail, organized with excellent communication skills and continuously looking for ways to make the AP process more efficient. The individual should possess a passion to build vendor processing expertise in managing our top vendors’ high volume invoices and who is flexible and thrives in a growth-oriented environment based on changing business needs while maintaining a continuous improvement mindset and employee development opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the accounts payable process with primary focus to lead the AP Trade payables team.
• Responsible for supporting invoice processing backlog and review, approve all trade payable invoices and payment requests.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal stakeholders to resolve vendor compliance issues, and research invoice and payment issues to prevent credit holds.
• Manage top vendor account reconciliations to maintain accounts in a current status.
• Develop and foster strong working relationships with vendors to enable efficient answers to inquiries and resolution of issues that may arise.
• Support training of AP policies and procedures across the business to ensure compliance for on-time payment.
• Act as a point of escalation for Trade payables to provide exceptional customer service to ensure professional, accurate and timely remediation of issues.
• Identify opportunities to streamline accounts payable processes to improve overall team efficiency and effectiveness and maintain a continuous improvement mindset.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the trade payables team, providing guidance and support to ensure high performance.
• Support month-end close process.
• Participate in system upgrades, ad-hoc testing and technology process improvements.
• Support internal and external audit requests.
• Monitor staff performance and identify areas for coaching opportunities to include managing employee morale, issues, performance appraisals and concerns.
• Assist the AP Supervisor and other members of the account team on special projects as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Accounting, Finance or related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 4+ years’ experience in an Accounts Payable role
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills to identify problems and research for timely resolution
• Demonstrates initiative and self-motivated by challenge of work and proactively seeks answers
• Team player with passion to support team and build strong cross functional relationships to support enterprise
• Experience with Great Plains Accounting Software a plus, but not required
• Experience with Medius, or similar automation software a plus, but not required
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Benefits

• Health Insurance (Company pays 50% of individual & family)
• Dental and Vision Benefits available
• 401(k) Plan available with employer match
• Short-Term Disability (paid for by employer)
• Paid Time Off and Paid Sick & Safe Time to use for time away
• 100% of PGA Dues paid annually
• Continuing education allowance of $500 per year
• Annual clothing allotment