Accounts Payable Team Lead - Irving

Title: Accounts Payable Team Lead

Employment Type: Full-Time, Contract-to-Hire

Compensation: $37 - $40/hr

Location: Irving, Texas

Work Model: On-site

Industry: Shared Services / Finance Operations

Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer. Sponsorship is not available for this position.

THE OPPORTUNITY

A high-growth, multi-entity commercial services organization is seeking an Accounts Payable Team Lead to serve as the operational anchor for a regional accounts payable team. This hands-on lead role combines ownership of complex vendor accounts with daily workflow coordination, exception resolution, team guidance, and month-end readiness in a centralized shared services environment.

The successful candidate will work with significant autonomy, interpreting accounts payable policy, resolving non-standard issues, and making day-to-day queue and prioritization decisions. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior accounts payable professional ready to expand leadership scope while remaining close to the work.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own a portfolio of high-volume, complex, or strategically important vendor accounts.
• Serve as the primary accounts payable contact for assigned business units, including controllers, operations leaders, and procurement partners.
• Resolve escalations, payment holds, statement discrepancies, credits, duplicate invoices, missing invoices, and other exceptions.
• Monitor contract terms, pricing changes, and payment agreements for assigned vendors.
• Assign and distribute daily invoice-processing work across Accounts Payable Specialists.
• Monitor queues, redistribute work, and adjust priorities ahead of close deadlines, payment cycles, and urgent exceptions.
• Track team output against daily key performance indicators and escalate capacity or performance concerns when appropriate.
• Process complex purchase-order and non-purchase-order invoices involving special coding, multiple approvals, or cross-business-unit coordination.
• Manage high-oversight recurring obligations such as rent, utilities, taxes, and insurance with complete, audit-ready documentation.
• Exercise independent judgment to resolve price, quantity, receipt, and approval variances.
• Support month-end close by clearing unresolved items and ensuring assigned accounts are payment-ready by cutoff.
• Act as the first escalation point for policy interpretation, system questions, and exception handling.
• Train, mentor, and support the onboarding of Accounts Payable team members.
• Identify recurring errors, approval bottlenecks, and data-quality issues; document corrective actions and process improvements.
• Support standard operating procedures, knowledge-base updates, audit requests, research, and special projects.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Associate degree required; bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive accounts payable experience in a high-volume environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of vendor relationships and complex exception portfolios.
• Experience assigning work and providing hands-on guidance, training, or mentorship to peers or junior team members.
• Experience processing both purchase-order and non-purchase-order invoices.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and ExFlow.
• Ability to interpret accounts payable policy and exercise independent judgment in non-standard situations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Strong organization, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work on-site in Irving, Texas.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Non-purchase-order recurring obligations such as utilities, rent, taxes, or insurance.
• Multi-entity shared services, regional accounts payable, or centralized finance operations.
• Audit support, process documentation, standard operating procedures, and knowledge-base maintenance.
• Partnership with business-unit controllers, operations leaders, procurement teams, and external vendors.