Director, Accounts Payable

Sunrun

Director managing accounts payable for residential solar company Sunrun. Leading a team, driving process optimization, and ensuring compliance in a public company environment.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeLehi • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $131,796 - $175,728 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudERPOracleTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive a best-in-class Payables Team & P2P Operations
Manage day-to-day Payables operations in conjunction with leadership within the upstream P2P processes
Lead a team of approximately twenty individuals, optimizing human capital resource structure and roles
Manage Payables for up to 13k employee base, and excess of 25k monthly invoices
Drive best in class tools, people, process, and policy as for Sunrun’s current size and business needs
Cultivate Transparency & Teamwork: Foster an open culture of collaboration; transparency where team members are encouraged to raise flags, surface process bottlenecks, and work collectively toward solutions
Results-Driven Development: Lead, mentor, coach, and scale a high-performing AP team, transforming the organizational culture from transactional processing to analytical exception management driven by clear accountability and ownership
Cross-Functional Relationship Management: Act as a true cross-functional leader who actively seeks feedback and input from varying departments (Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, IT) to ensure P2P processes meet diverse business needs without compromising accounting integrity
Leverage and optimize advanced intelligent data capture tools, specifically OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and IDR (Intelligent Document Recognition) invoice readers, to convert manual ingestion into highly automated, touchless processing
Drive the identification, piloting, and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities within the P2P cycle (e.g., predictive exception routing, smart GL coding suggestions, automated duplicate detection)
Lead the strategic evaluation, implementation, and scaling of automated employee expense management tools and corporate credit card programs
Maintain & adapt the SOX control framework across the entire P2P lifecycle and corporate card ecosystem to support public company requirements
Act as the primary interface for internal and external auditors for all P2P and expense cycles during quarterly reviews and annual financial audits
Leverage enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence tools—specifically “Snowflake” and “Tableau”—to build out automated AP dashboards, track operational metrics, and conduct deep-dive variance analyses
Ensure the AP team operates with a strong accounting mindset, owning AP specific account reconciliations and subledger-to-general-ledger balancing in key accounts
Own the operational design, calculation, and review of critical month-end AP accruals, ensuring no material variances or omissions impact corporate consolidation
Partner closely with teams across Inventory, Project Costing, Operations, S&M and G&A to ensure upstream data integrity, preventing coding errors that trigger downstream variances or material misstatements
Manage the AP month-end close timeline rigorously to ensure flawless and timely data flow into the general accounting and corporate consolidation teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of 15+ years of progressive accounting and accounts payable experience
Proven experience leading large teams with a focus on building a cohesive, collaborative, transparent, and high-performance team environment
Proven, hands-on experience implementing or utilizing OCR/IDR invoice reader tools alongside AI/advanced automation within an AP/P2P function to achieve measurable efficiency results
Proven experience successfully implementing and managing an enterprise-wide expense management tool (Ramp a plus) and a corporate card program
Prior experience within a publicly traded company is required
Deep technical fluency in US GAAP accounting and SOX controls is key
Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud ERP is preferred
Strong experience with advanced reporting tools, ideally Snowflake and Tableau, is preferred
Proven experience performing month-end close, complex accruals, account reconciliations, and general ledger activities in addition to traditional payables operations
Strong foundational understanding of accounting mechanics within capital-intensive environments
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to collaborate with, influence, and gather consensus from cross-functional groups with varying needs.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401k Plan + Company Match
Stock Purchase Plan
Paid Vacations/Holidays
Paid Baby Bonding Leave
Employee Discounts
PowerU - 100% Funded Education Programs
Employee Donation Matching
Volunteer Hour Rewards

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Hard Skills & Tools

Accounts PayableMonth-End CloseAccrualsAccount ReconciliationGeneral Ledger ActivitiesExpense Management ToolsAI and Automation ImplementationFinancial AuditingData AnalysisP2P Process Optimization

Soft Skills

Interpersonal SkillsCommunication SkillsCollaborationTeam BuildingTransparency