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Medline Industries, LP · 1 hour ago

Accounts Payable Lead

Medline Industries, LP is a company dedicated to providing healthcare products and services, and they are seeking an Accounts Payable Lead to oversee a team of AP professionals. The role involves mentoring the team, managing complex accounts payable tasks, and driving process improvements to ensure efficiency and accuracy in financial operations.

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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Serve as a transactional and business process subject matter expert supporting their respective team to execute and resolve vendor escalations in accordance with the departments’ service level agreements.  Demonstrates this same acumen to all stakeholders and serves as an escalation resource for our lines of business, operations and vendors
Ensure team members apply their training and provide continuous guidance in existing procedures while also supporting change management efforts let by AP Leadership for changes in technology stack, internal controls, and/or business process changes
Reconcile and effectively manage aged open payables and discrepancy resolutions within the teams’ portfolio.  This includes resolution of aged unpaid balances, pricing/goods receipt discrepancies, vendors in credit balance, etc. to mitigate financial exposure for the organization. Facilitate and support team members reconciliations for assigned vendors and mentor them in presenting the health of their portfolio to management
Monitor and interpret customer service activity reports and resource allocation to periodically provide recommendations to the Supervisor for the most optimal structure
Partner with lines of business, operations, and external vendors to resolve discrepancies and maintain strong vendor relationships. This will include, but is not limited to, supporting team members on vendor calls in addition to effective management of escalations
Perform month end responsibilities as assigned to include review and resolution of process exceptions, portfolio’s aged open payables, match exception workflow aging, and more
Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders in the adoption of process changes to ensure compliance and avoid disruptions or non-payment
Utilize analytics, in collaboration with supervisor, to monitor vendor inquiry response/resolution determining current performance and suggest improvements
Partners with Supervisor and other members of AP Leadership to identify needed areas of change and offers recommendations to improve operations
Support and maintain internal controls while also identifying potential gaps, escalating to the Supervisor and AP Leadership to plan, develop and implement mitigating procedures
Utilize analytics and vendor customer service data to identify trends, at risk vendors and partner with team to mitigate and minimize credit holds

Qualification

Accounts Payable ManagementThree-way MatchSAP ERPPythonZendeskAdvanced ExcelAnalytical SkillsTeam LeadershipCommunication SkillsOrganizational Skills

Required

Associates degree or 5 - 7 years equivalent work experience in high volume environment and large scale ERP
Experience in full invoice life cycle heavily focused on three-way match and exception resolution for goods receipt and pricing discrepancies
Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize and coordinate workload with high degree of proficiency and accuracy
Ability to multitask and prioritize a high volume of requests
Ability to lead, mentor and support a team of AP staff members including providing feedback to the Supervisor
Plans and completes work effectively and efficiently, meets assigned deadlines, and makes sound decisions; identify areas of potential problems
Ability to provide prompt, courteous and accurate assistance and clear and concise communication to internal and external stakeholders both verbally and in writing
Ability to perform routine and non-routine work assignments accurately and on-time with little to no supervision
Ability to work and cooperate with others in a team environment
Possesses proficiency in MS Office Suite, including intermediate Excel skills and exposure to working with large data sets

Preferred

Bachelor's degree
Knowledge of SAP ERP A/P systems, Python, Zendesk and Appian
Management of invoice life cycle in retail, manufacturing or distribution
Proficient Microsoft Excel skills and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suites (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio)
Ability to improve work habits and/or output of others
Ability to interpret policies and procedures and identify control gaps
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, XLOOKUPs and data analysis functions
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to convert into actionable insights
Ability to evaluate, train and motivate the performance of Accounts Payable team members

Benefits

Health insurance
Life and disability
401(k) contributions
Paid time off

Company

Medline Industries, LP

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Medline is the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care.

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (344)
2024 (144)
2023 (142)
2022 (143)
2021 (137)
2020 (113)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$0.5M
Key Investors
North Carolina Department of Commerce
2025-12-17IPO
2021-06-05Private Equity
2019-09-12Grant· $0.5M

Leadership Team

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Steve Miller
Chief Operating Officer
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Amanda Laabs
Chief Product Officer
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