Team Lead - Account Payable

Position Responsibilities:

The role will involve the following critical activities:

- Plan, prioritize, allocate, and monitor the Expense Accounting calendar across recurring and ad hoc deliverables, ensuring competing priorities are effectively managed while meeting deadlines, SLAs, quality standards, and maintaining appropriate backup coverage.

- Team leadership: Supervise, mentor, and motivate analysts and senior analysts, including workload allocation, training, onboarding, cross-training, performance feedback, and knowledge management.

- Review and quality control: Perform risk-based review of critical and high-risk activities, including vendor banking changes, SSI callbacks, payrun support, vendor payments, fund reimbursements, cash movements, bank reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, and regulatory schedules.

- Accounting oversight: Ensure deliverables are consistent with accounting principles, client policies, approval requirements, internal controls, and the expected financial statement impact for expenses, AP/AR, cash, accruals, prepaids, and allocations.

- Stakeholder management: Act as a primary LineData contact for Expense Accounting, Fund Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Treasury/Cash Management, Tax/Compliance, Operations, vendors, and internal business requestors.

- Month-end and reporting governance: Oversee month-end trackers, AP/GL trial balance reviews, bank and receivable reconciliations, fund gross-up, expense analysis, AR billing support, CSA/soft-dollar reporting, metrics, research reports, and regulatory/tax schedules.

- Controls and audit readiness: Maintain complete evidence, maker-checker review, exception logs, escalation records, SOPs, and audit-ready documentation; identify control gaps and drive remediation.

- Process improvement and automation: Lead continuous improvement through SOP updates, standard templates, dashboards, Alteryx workflows, automation checks, productivity tracking, and improved handoffs between Expense Accounting, Fund Accounting, and Corporate Accounting.

• Governance reporting: Monitor team deliverables and proactively identify potential delays or risks, ensuring timely