Supervisor Accounts Payable

**Division**:
Financial Management & Planning

**Important Notices & Amendments**:
**This position**currently falls within our hybrid model**, allowing the employee to**typically**work**a minimum of**50% of**your** time**at your regular work location and the other 50% of time at home.**

**About Us**:
Serving a diverse urban and rural population of more than 475,000, Niagara Region is focused on building a strong and prosperous Niagara. Working collaboratively with 12 local area municipalities and numerous community partners, the Region delivers a range of high-quality programs and services to support and advance the well-being of individuals, families and communities within its boundaries. Nestled between the great lakes of Erie and Ontario, the Niagara peninsula features some of Canada’s most fertile agricultural land, the majesty of Niagara Falls and communities that are rich in both history and recreational and cultural opportunities. Niagara boasts dynamic modern cities, Canada’s most developed wine industry, a temperate climate, extraordinary theatre, and some of Ontario’s most breathtaking countryside. An international destination with easy access to its binational U.S. neighbour New York State, Niagara attracts over 14 million visitors annually, as well as a steady stream of new residents and businesses.

At Niagara Region, we value diversity - in background and experience. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aspire to hire and grow a workforce reflective of the diverse community we serve. By doing so, we can deliver better programs and services across Niagara.

For the Region's full employee equity statement, Working at Niagara Region - Niagara Region, Ontario.

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**Job Summary**:
**Reporting to the Manager Accounting Services, the Supervisor Accounts Payable is responsible for supervising and coordinating the accounts payable activities to ensure effective and efficient operations and to meet approved levels of service. Activities include payment processing, compliance and customer service for Regional departments and shared service partners, in accordance with Regional policies and procedures. Provides system and technical leadership and expertise to the Accounts Payable team. This position also has responsibility for providing ad-hoc analysis and reports as required.**:
**Education**:

- Post-secondary degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Completion or enrolment in the Municipal Finance Course is an asset

**Knowledge**:

- Minimum 3 years of team leadership experience in Accounting or Finance.
- Experienced in a municipal or large scale accounting environment with an advanced ERP system (e.g. PeopleSoft Financial preferred)
- Experience implementing process improvements and automation tools is an asset.
- Proficient knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel, such as Pivot Tables & Formulas (v-lookups, sumif, etc.)
- Ability to research, troubleshoot and find solutions to challenges.
- Ability to prioritize workload and multi-task efficiently.
- Professional Accounting Designation (CPA/CA, CGA, CMA) is preferred.
- Team leadership experience, within a unionized environment is preferred
- Experience with Public Sector Accounting (PSA) and not-for-profit accounting standards is preferred.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

**Responsibilities**:
**Supervises staff, coordinating and planning work, providing work direction, assigning tasks and projects, determining methods and procedures to be used, monitoring quality of work, resolving problems and ensuring assigned results are achieved. (50% of time)**:

- Enables results with the organization’s human capital strategy to foster employee engagement.
- In conjunction with the Manager provides training and development, coaching and discipline when necessary, and manages staff recruitment.
- Ensures focus is service excellence, communication/transparency, innovation, and data integrity and work flow integration.
- Ensures staff has the information and resources to make successful plans and decisions.
- Ensures all people related issues, including recruitment, grievances and labour relations issues, are aligned to HR and Corporate standards and practices.
- Helps to break down barriers to employee success, ensuring collaboration and cooperation with other teams within their division and department.
- Ensures Occupational Health & Safety policies, programs and practices are implemented, and maintained. This includes workplace inspections, monitoring, accident reporting and investigations, and ensuring any observed hazards or lapses in the functioning of OH&S processes, and other OH&S concerns are responded to promptly.
- Ensures all individuals under supervision have been informed of hazards and instructed on the necessary risk control and emergency response measures.
- Manage account reconciliations and reoccurring tasks/reviews as follows:_ _(20% of time)_
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