Sr. Accountant - Source To Settle

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The Senior Accountant I – Source to Settle reports into the North America Source To Settle Lead in Raleigh, NC. This is a Foster City site-based role responsible for providing senior-level operational leadership, strategic oversight, and continuous improvement support for the customer service framework within the North America STS department. The role is accountable for ensuring supplier invoices are processed and paid accurately, timely, and efficiently while driving process standardization, operational controls, stakeholder engagement, and issue resolution across the Source-To-Settle (STS) cycle, including Supplier Master, Vendor Invoice Operations, Payments, Business Support, Compliance, and Reporting. The successful candidate will be expected to operate with a high degree of independence, influence cross-functional partners, provide guidance to team members and offshore resources, and support a best-in-class Invoice Operations function through strong service delivery, business insight, and scalable process improvement. Key responsibilities include: Operations/Technology/Continuous Improvement: Partner with other global STS team members to standardize processes globally to ensure they are scalable to support the Company’s continued growth. Effectively manage the perceptions and expectations of internal stakeholders. Maintain process integrity, internal and SOX controls, ensure compliance with the Controller’s Manual and all applicable laws and regulations. Accountable for service delivery against agreed and evolving KPI’s and service partnership agreement. Provide thoughtful analysis and recommendations to foster dialogue with business leaders to make informed decisions based on trends, performance, and future projections. Understand business direction, key changes, and needs; initiate and actively participate in the conversations on how Invoice Operations needs to mold and adapt to stay proactive. Provide coaching, training, and operational guidance to offshore teams, internal customers, external suppliers, and cross-functional business partners. Serve as a key liaison across global STS teams, promoting alignment, knowledge sharing, and consistent execution of enterprise-wide process standards. Ensure governance and adherence to Company policies, procedures, SOX controls, government requirements, and applicable legal standards. Provide support for strategic, cross-functional, and transformation initiatives impacting STS operations. Own proactive engagement with end-users within assigned functional areas to resolve invoice exceptions, remove approval and payment barriers, and reinforce adoption of STS systems, processes, and procedures. Lead engagement with assigned Critical Suppliers within designated functional areas to ensure timely invoice submission