Accounts Payable Manager

About DAT

Discover your future at DAT Freight & Analytics, where innovation meets impact. For over four decades, DAT has been at the forefront of transportation and logistics, helping businesses move freight with greater efficiency and confidence. We are a technology company that removes uncertainty from freight for truckers, brokers, and shippers every day. Our advanced tools and data intelligence empower professionals to make smarter decisions, optimize costs, and operate more successfully. Through the industry's largest digital freight marketplace and insights derived from over $1 trillion in freight transactions, we provide the mission-critical information that keeps supply chains running smoothly across the country. DAT is proud to be an award-winning workplace that fosters innovation, celebrates success, and values professional growth. With strategic offices in Beaverton, Oregon, Denver, Colorado, Springfield, Missouri, and Bangalore, India, our teams collaborate to solve the transportation industry's most complex challenges. Ready to shape the future of freight technology? Learn more at dat.com / company.

Application Deadline : 11 / 30 / 2025

The Opportunity

DAT is seeking an extremely detailed and experienced Accounts Payable Manager to lead our AP department in Beaverton, OR.

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of full-cycle accounts payable, possess strong leadership skills, and be ready to take full ownership of the AP function. This is a critical role that will be instrumental in integrating the AP processes of newly acquired entities and ensuring the department operates with maximum efficiency and accuracy.

What You'll Do

• ERP System Implementation : We are currently in the selection process for a new ERP system, and this role will be instrumental in the implementation . You will serve as a key stakeholder, providing crucial input to lead the design and configuration of the AP function within the new system.
• Department Ownership : Lead, manage, and mentor the accounts payable team, overseeing all daily operations and ensuring the timely and accurate processing of invoices, payments, and expense reports.
• Acquisition Integration : Play a lead role in the financial integration of newly acquired entities, harmonizing their AP policies and procedures with our existing systems to ensure a smooth transition.
• Process Management :
• Manage the full-cycle AP process, including vendor onboarding and invoice processing and credit card reconciliation.
• Review and approve all invoices and payments (ACH, wire, checks), ensuring accuracy and adherence to company policy.
• Manage the end-to-end virtual credit card process, from reviewing and approving all requests to issuing cards with appropriate controls.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, internal controls, and GAAP standards.
• Oversee the accurate and timely coding of invoices and payments to the general ledger.
• Reporting & Reconciliation :
• Prepare and review period-end accruals and reconciliations for accounts payable and related accounts.
• Complete and reconcile all prepaid expenses
• Generate and analyze various AP reports to monitor performance and identify trends.
• Vendor and Stakeholder Relations : Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with vendors and collaborate with internal departments to resolve payment issues and ensure accurate financial information.

The Skills and Experience You'll Bring

Why DAT?

DAT is an award winning employer of choice.

For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We've been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado's 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.

For Oregon-based candidates, in compliance with Oregon's Pay Equity and Transparency Act (effective January 2024), the salary range for this role is $80,000 - $105,000. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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