About Vantage Data Centers
Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect, and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.
Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects, and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.
Position Overview
Vantage is looking for an Accounting Operations Manager to lead the accounts payable and accounts receivable functions and teams for its North American operations. As a newly created position, the Manager will be responsible for building an efficient, unified, and success-driven team, and will also oversee change management as this shared-services functional team is deployed. Fruitful business relationships are critical at Vantage, hence the Manager will not only coach, mentor and develop the team handling the day-to-day financial activities of the organization, but will also evaluate, assess, propose, and implement improvements to the current systems, processes and working methods to operate even better as a fast growing, world-class organization and ensure uniformity of the service to suppliers.
Essential Job Functions
- Leads and coaches a team of up to 7 accountants involved in A/R and A/P activities
- Manage the entire recurring vendor payment cycles process, from vendor creation and compliance to cash disbursement requests
- Manage the invoicing, cash receipt and cash collection functions
- Through its involvement in A/R and A/P, provides the necessary information for cash flow forecasting
- Improves the systems and processes in the A/R and A/P portfolios
Duties
- Coordinate the payment cycles and make efficient use of AP tools and systems to ensure supplier invoices are efficiently processed.
- Monitor invoices in workflow systems to ensure accurate data entry and sufficient approvals.
- Develops and maintains guidelines for proper handling, coding and workflowing of invoices to ensure adequate approval and maintain general ledge expense tracking.
- Manage the expense report process, tool, and employee reimbursements.
- Maintain lease abstracts and ensures timely invoicing of recurring and non-recurring charges to customers.
- Leads the cash receipt and cash collection activities and ensures they are timely and adequately recorded.
- Ensures compliances with laws, internal policies and contracts with customers and suppliers.
- Promote a strong culture of customer service and cooperation within the team.
- Train, oversee, coach, develop, provide assistance to and evaluate the performance of team members.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or general management, or equivalent academic credentials.
- 7-10 years of experience in a similar role within a large, complex organization’s Finance team.
- Past Management experience preferred.
- Language requirements: English, required and French, preferred.
- Real estate or construction industry experience preferred but not required.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with many simultaneous priorities from time to time.
- Facility to “roll up one’s sleeves” and collaborate with process participants in solving issues.
- Excellent leadership, good coach, good management of priorities, meticulous, attentive to his team; collaborator, great communicator, flexible, good ability to develop the capacities of employees, analytical.
- Skilled at using various ERP and invoicing systems, and with technology in general.
- Knowledge of Yardi Voyager, preferred but not required; and
- Proficient in the Windows and Office 365 environment.
Additional Information:
- Salary Range: $100-115K Base + Bonus
- This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.
- Compensation for the role will depend on several factors, including your qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience and may fall outside of the range shown.
We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations.
Safety and security always matter. During COVID, all positions that can work remotely have been, and appropriate steps have been taken to ensure the safety of employees in any position essential to be on site. Regardless of where you are working, technology to work effectively is provided on or in advance of your first day of employment.
Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.
Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.
Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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