Job Description

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Financial Accounting Manager to lead day-to-day Accounts Payable (AP) operations while driving strategic transformation initiatives across the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) lifecycle. This role ensures the efficient, accurate, and compliant processing of invoices and payments, while advancing automation, standardization, and continuous improvement efforts to enhance scalability, control, and user experience.

A critical component of this role is establishing and maintaining a strong control environment across AP operations. This includes ensuring robust invoice validation, enforcing segregation of duties (maker-checker), and implementing effective monitoring controls such as voucher reviews, sampling, and audit-ready procedures to prevent errors, duplicate payments, and policy non-compliance. The role also requires close partnership with Audit and Risk teams to support ongoing risk assessments, control testing, audit readiness, and issue remediation, while proactively identifying and addressing control gaps through sustainable process improvements.

The role requires demonstrated experience leading Accounts Payable or Procure-to-Pay transformation initiatives, including process redesign, automation, and standardization. The candidate should have a proven ability to reduce manual touchpoints, improve data visibility, and drive adoption of scalable solutions such as e-invoicing platforms. Success in this role also requires balancing transformation with operational stability, ensuring enhancements strengthen controls, compliance, and audit readiness while being effectively adopted across the organization.

Strong onsite leadership is essential to manage day-to-day operations, provide real-time oversight, and support the team in delivering timely and accurate outcomes

In this role, you will:

• Manage a team of individual contributors supporting Accounts Payable operations, including invoice processing, payments, reconciliations, and exception handling.
• Oversee end-to-end AP activities across one or more lines of business. Ensure invoices and payments are processed accurately, timely, and in compliance with policies.
• Direct complex accounting and operational tasks related to the AP subledger, reconciliations, invoice validation, and payment processing.
• Establish and enforce strong control standards. Ensure proper invoice validation, segregation of duties (maker-checker), and ongoing monitoring through quality reviews and sampling.
• Design and enhance internal controls. Improve data accuracy, prevent duplicate payments, and strengthen audit readiness.
• Maintain knowledge of accounting practices, regulatory requirements, and internal AP and P2P policies.
• Ensure adherence to controls and risk management requirements. Identify and remediate control gaps proactively.
• Partner with Audit, Risk, and Compliance teams. Support control testing, audits, and issue resolution.
• Lead transformation initiatives across AP and P2P. Focus on process standardization, automation, and adoption of digital tools (e.g., e-invoicing platforms such as Ariba).
• Improve systems and workflows. Reduce manual effort and increase efficiency, visibility, and scalability.
• Oversee reporting activities, including operational metrics and control monitoring.
• Serve as a change agent. Drive best practices and continuous improvement across the function.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with Procurement, Treasury, Technology, and business partners.
• Provide strategic input to leadership on operations, risk, and transformation opportunities.
• Manage audit and regulatory inquiries. Ensure timely and accurate responses.
• Allocate resources effectively to meet operational and transformation priorities.
• Develop and mentor team members. Support hiring and build a strong pipeline of talent.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Financial Reporting, Accounting Reporting or Risk Reporting experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 2+ years of leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Previous accounting or finance experience in a large company environment
• Financial services experience
• Operations and business transformation experience
• Ability to source and analyze data for reporting and insights
• Experience leading and developing a team of direct reports
• Experience partnering with management consultants and other external partners
• Preferred technology experience with ERP, Ariba, PeopleSoft and Orolab
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, CPA a plus

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in office and 2 days remote
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

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Work locations:

Charlotte, North Carolina

West Des Moines, Iowa

Posting End Date:

12 Jun 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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