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diversity manager

Title posted on indeed.com - AP Manager

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Employer details Gambles Ontario Produce

Job details

*Why Gambles?* At Gambles, produce is everything. Our business provides the widest assortment of top-quality fruits and vegetables for the wholesale, foodservice, and retail sectors. With a history dating back to the early 1900s, Gambles has grown and evolved into one of the largest produce wholesalers in all of Canada. Our goal is to be the supplier of choice for all our customers? needs. Our people are the backbone of our business! We have a ?hire-from-within? mentality at Gambles, which means we put extra focus on developing our people and giving them unique career advancement opportunities. Just like our products and our customer-base, we love to see our people grow! We offer a competitive benefits package with employer covered health and dental benefits (you don?t pay the premiums!) and a company matched Pension Plan for our full-time employees. *Job Description * The Accounts Payable Manager will report directly to the Controller. This position will be responsible and accountable for ensuring efficiency and effectiveness of all aspects of AP functions including the day-to-day management of the AP team. There is an opportunity to grow into a Financial Manager (covering AP and AR functions) in the long term. This individual will work primarily out of the Dwight Warehouse location but will require the ability to travel to both locations regularly. Although the primary schedule for this individual is 40 hours per week, Monday ? Friday, our ideal candidate can work a flexible schedule to accommodate the needs of the business which may include occasional evenings and weekends. *Responsibilities* *Accounting and Control:* * Responsible for the day-to-day management of the AP team. * Manage and reconcile all AP GL related accounts to Trial Balance on a monthly, quarterly, and year end basis. * Ensure that policies and procedures for AP are developed, documented, and kept current, with appropriate controls and segregation of duties in place, while maintaining efficiencies. * Manage and distribute AP internal reporting. * Work with the AP team to maintain contacts for each vendor/customer. * Mentor the team to write clear, concise, and easily understandable emails with timely responses. * Identify and implement process improvements to ensure best practices and reduce time spent on daily and month-end tasks. * Overview of AP functions, timely follow up, and resolution of issues. * Assist with year-end audits and any other reporting requirements. * Participate in ERP implementation. * Act as a primary contact with other departments regarding AP procedures and their application. * Collaborate with the AP team to build strong internal relationships with Operations and Sales & Buying for quicker resolution of invoice and credit issues. * Ensure compliance with HST and PST tax regulations. * Establish benchmarks and/or KPIs to measure individual and departmental performance. * Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects when required. * Other duties as discussed and assigned. *Leadership and Management* * Grow, mentor, and develop team members: coach regularly, promote responsibility-taking, communicate expectations with clarity, ensure differences are resolved, make meaning of events for others, share information and strive for efficiency. * Conduct performance reviews and development planning for all team members. * Build relationships: make and keep commitments, seek opportunities to partner with internal and external customers, be optimistic, anticipate needs. * Ensure the AP department is well-planned: define opportunities, communicate vision and goals in a way everyone understands, know what is most important and set priorities, ask for commitment, follow up on progress being made, promote accountability. * Protect our brand: know and live the values, ensure team members are living the values. *Candidate Requirements * Qualifications: * University or College degree or diploma in A