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. The ideal candidate brings deep AP expertise, strong leadership instincts, and a continuous improvement mindset.
What You Will Do
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.
Required Skills and Qualifications
Accounts Payable Operations Expertise: 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.
Process Automation: 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.
People Leadership and Team Management: 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.
Payment Systems and Tools Proficiency: 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.
Month-End Close Coordination: 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.
Invoice Quality Control and Compliance: 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.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Stakeholder Communication: 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.
Process Improvement and Knowledge Transfer: 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.
Data Analysis and Reporting: 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.
Workflow and Project Management Tools: Familiarity with workflow tracking platforms such as Smartsheet to manage team task queues, monitor progress, and ensure accountability across multiple concurrent workstreams.
Training and Onboarding Capability: 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.
Minimum Qualifications
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.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with banks.
Familiarity with Smartsheet or similar workflow management tools.
Experience managing back-office or shared services partnerships.
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. #LI-Remote
A career with us comes with big rewards:
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. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
The Base Salary range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salary for each of DIRECTV's 4 (four) US Labor Market Zones. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
DIRECTV WAGE ZONES $91,770 - $166,635
Low (N1): $91,770 - $137,655
Mid (N2): $96,600 - $144,900
High (N3): $106,260 - $159,390
Top (N4): $111,090 - $166,635
Click HERE (https://tbcdn.talentbrew.com/company/390/pdf/GeoZone-by-DMA-003.pdf) to review information on some of the largest Designated Market Areas (DMAs). Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the 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.
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DIRECTV employees are expected to always be honest, trustworthy, and operate with integrity. Discrimination and harassment of any kind (including sexual harassment) will not be tolerated. We remain steadfast in our belief for diversity, equity, and inclusion; therefore, we encourage success based on individual merit and ability without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military/veteran status, or any other protected status. DIRECTV celebrates and is enriched by our differences; therefore we fully consider all qualified applicants including, those with a criminal history.
