[Remote] Accounts Payable Invoice and Payment Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DIRECTV is seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Accounts Payable Invoice and Payment Manager to lead day-to-day invoice processing and payment operations. This role is responsible for overseeing a team of AP professionals, ensuring timely and accurate invoice handling, managing multi-system payment workflows, and maintaining strong cross-functional relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Oversee invoice processing operations, ensuring invoices are handled accurately, timely, and in accordance with established procedures
• Manage end-to-end payment operations, including daily payment file reconciliation, wire total reporting to Treasury, and payment tracking
• Monitor team performance and workflow queues ensuring help desk inquiries, invoice changes, and comment resolution meet quality and timeliness standards
• Coordinate month-end close activities, including timely notification to back-office partners
• Oversee Return EFT and Stale Check resolution
• Ensure payment term compliance, including investigation of payment term mismatches, processing of Payment Term Waiver approvals, and escalation of exceptions as needed
• Oversee TSA invoice processing, ensuring template accuracy to support on-time payment clearance
• Monitor and manage Credit Memos with outstanding payment status, ensuring Immediate Terms are applied appropriately
• Supervise bulk invoice template workflows and ensure daily query uploads are completed; serve as backup when needed
• Train team members and business users on AP processes and AP system tools
• Identify trends in manual invoice submissions and proactively engage the business to address root causes
• Support the transition of select processes to the back-office team, ensuring proper documentation and knowledge transfer
• Perform UAT and regression testing on new or updated processes

Skills

• Extensive hands-on experience managing invoice and payment operations at scale, including full-cycle AP processing, payment file management, and reconciliation. Direct experience with Oracle Payables or a comparable ERP system is required
• Experience with robotic process automation (RPA) or workflow automation tools (e.g., Power Automate or equivalent) to streamline AP invoice and payment processes; demonstrated ability to identify manual process inefficiencies and partner cross-functionally to implement automation solutions
• Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and hold accountable a team of AP professionals. Experience monitoring team workloads, providing coaching, and ensuring quality and timeliness standards are consistently met
• Working knowledge of payment platforms and tracking tools, including JPMorgan payment systems, Corpay, and VCARD payment processes. Ability to reconcile payment files against reporting outputs and identify discrepancies
• Experience managing AP activities in alignment with a financial close calendar, including coordinating with back-office partners and internal business units to meet critical deadlines
• Strong attention to detail with experience conducting invoice quality reviews, identifying keying errors, and enforcing payment term compliance. Familiarity with payment term waiver processes and dispute resolution workflows
• Proven ability to work effectively with internal teams (Finance, Treasury, Ad Sales) and external partners (back-office processing teams, banking partners) to resolve issues and maintain operational continuity
• Experience documenting processes, developing job aids and SOPs, and transitioning work to shared service or back-office teams. Ability to identify workflow inefficiencies and drive sustainable improvements
• Ability to extract, interpret, and act on data from AP dashboards and reporting tools. Experience using Excel or similar tools for reconciliation, trend analysis, and operational reporting
• Familiarity with workflow tracking platforms such as Smartsheet to manage team task queues, monitor progress, and ensure accountability across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Experience training team members and business users on AP systems, bulk upload processes, and operational procedures. Ability to communicate technical processes clearly to varied audiences
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 3 – 5 years required, 5+ years desired of accounts payable or procure-to-pay experience, with at least 2 years in a supervisory or management capacity
• Proficiency with ERP-based AP systems (Oracle preferred)
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Experience working with banks
• Familiarity with Smartsheet or similar workflow management tools
• Experience managing back-office or shared services partnerships

Benefits

• DIRECTV's compensation structure is designed to be market-competitive and fully supports efforts to attract and retain employees.
• It is the company's policy to offer pay that is competitive with other employers in the local market.
• Salary ranges reflect base salary only and do not include bonus or benefits - when you consider all of these together, it represents a pretty impressive total compensation package.
• May require a background check due to job duties requiring routine access to DIRECTV and DIRECTV customer’s proprietary data.
• Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction will be considered for employment in accordance with local ordinances and state law.
• This is a remote position that can be located anywhere in the contiguous United States.

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