Accounts Payable Manager

At Trojan Technologies, we believe there’s nothing more essential than delivering clean water to the world. That’s especially true in this critical moment, when the world’s supply of clean water is under substantial stress due to industrialization, increasing demand, and rising biological and chemical contamination. Our mission is to stem that tide: to ensure greater water confidence and environmental stewardship for people, industries, and municipalities, improving the lives of over one billion people globally.

As part of our global team, you’ll work alongside customers from municipalities to pharmaceutical and food and beverage companies to build creative, sustainable solutions. You’ll also find a welcoming and supportive team that listens to your ideas and allows you to follow your strengths. All of us feel privileged to work on innovative technologies that bring clean water to the world—we hope you will, too.

Trojan is proud to be one of Danaher's Water Quality companies. Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.

We are seeking an experienced leader to join us as the Accounts Payable Manager. Reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, you will be a key member within the Finance team.

Do you enjoy splitting your time between strategy and hands-on work? This could be the job for you!

This is a hands-on role that will lead the day-to-day duties of the Trojan Accounts Payable team of 6 to meet key performance indicators. You can have a real impact by uncovering the challenges of a high-volume environment of about 400 invoices per day and help us move things to future state with automation.

This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement in which you can work part-time in our London office and part-time remotely from your home.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify areas for improvement through monitoring of department metrics. Establish objectives and development goals for direct reports, delegate appropriate tasks, provide mentorship and guide interactions with functional area team members.

• Lead payables process to ensure internal control compliance, including three-way match and proper approvals.

• Resolve invoice discrepancies through application of critical problem-solving skills and high attention to detail.

• Engage with vendors to support automation initiatives and resolve discrepancies regarding invoices, shipments, credits and statement issues.

• Complete weekly payment methods including ACH, wire, credit card, check and vendor website as authorized.

• Remain current with company policies to ensure company remains aligned with associate expense reporting, and that company is using the latest technology and tools to remain cost effective and efficient.

• Develop strong functional relationships with other departments, and third party vendors to maintain the program and alignment

• Responsible for ensuring department-specific financial records are complete accurate and processed within the close schedule timelines

• Drive process improvements by working with respective partners to suggest and implement process changes to improve transparency, accountability, accuracy, efficiency, including documentation of standard work.

• Support compliance and audit requests.

Skill, Knowledge, Education, and Experience:

• 5+ year’s relevant accounting experience, including some prior experience in a leadership capacity

• Associate’s degree in accounting or equivalent experience

• ERP implementation experience and experience automating an AP function would be a plus, good Excel skills is a requirement

• Ability to understand issues, demonstrate resourcefulness and proactively resolve problems in a timely manner

• Strong organizational skills: task prioritization and effective time management

• Ability to be meticulous even with high volume workload

• Intellectual curiosity and mentality to drive continuous improvement

• Ability to adapt to new situations and apply critical thinking to solve problems

When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 69,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.

At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve.  Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

If you’ve ever wondered what’s within you, there’s no better time to find out.


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