Pandora is hiring an Director of Procurement and Accounts Payable in our Oakland, CA headquarters. We are seeking a self-motivated, system savvy, team player with strong process and systems experience and leadership skills. This individual will primarily be managing the operations of the Corporate Purchasing and Accounts Payable teams to ensure that high levels of customer service, compliance and cost savings are achieved. This individual will be a proven and capable leader that is able to develop efficient and scalable processes to streamline the P2P workflow and that will enable the Finance team to keep pace with Pandora’s tremendous growth.
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Corporate Purchasing:
Manage Procurement team responsible for supporting indirect corporate purchase requests, p-cards, supplier setups and contract negotiations
Ensure soundness of procurement processes for: contracts, purchase requests, purchase approval/orders, audit compliance and high data quality especially around GL account coding for items with financial statement impact
Continuous improvement and scalability of P2P processes and systems that will scale to meet our growth
Develop training and communication programs and clearly distribute communications to internal and external business partners
Develop strong partnerships with internal customers and ensure consistent customer service
Develop and review spend metrics, share discoveries and suggest improvements to the buying process
Teach and verify that the current procurement process is accurate, suggest process and training improvements and upheld through controls design
Act with a high sense of urgency
Excellent vendor management, influence, and expediting capabilities
Accounts Payable:
Lead Accounts Payable team to ensure payments are properly executed, and identify and resolve payment failures in a timely manner
Strategize and focus on continuous process improvements to get ahead of the curve, and effectively plan for organizational expansion and development
Identify, design and implement automated payables processes
Develop, document and implement appropriate systems to scale our processes and controls
Build and manage performance metrics and reports to ensure continued efficiency gains with ability to scale to volume
Proactively communicate and foster strong working relationships with key stakeholders, including external suppliers, internal business units, Internal Audit and SOX teams, and Treasury
Ensure team meets month-end and quarterly financial close deadlines
Provide expert guidance and advice to stakeholders
Provide support, training, mentoring, and development to staff to ensure the department performs efficiently
Mentor, evaluate, and develop employees
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
8+ years of management experience in Procurement, Accounts Payable, and/or Accounting teams in a growth environment
Proven ability to align a diverse group of stakeholders and vendors with conflicting priorities
Continuous process improvement mindset
Excellent technical knowledge of systems such as Oracle
Excellent knowledge of the procure-to-pay process
Excellent analytical, verbal and written skills with a high attention to detail
Demonstrated customer commitment and work ethic based on strong desire to exceed expectations
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