Supervisor, Accounts Payable

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

Lead the team responsible for the accuracy, integrity, security, and timely maintenance of American Airlines supplier master data. This role strengthens supplier and payment controls, helps prevent fraud, and modernizes Vendor Maintenance through automation, analytics, workflow technology, and responsible AI.

What you'll do

Lead, coach, and develop a five-person team responsible for supplier onboarding and vendor master maintenance.
Oversee new supplier setup and changes to names, addresses, tax information, banking details, payment methods, payment terms, and other critical master data.
Ensure supplier identity, banking information, and supporting documentation are appropriately validated before records or payment instructions are activated.
Maintain preventive and detective controls to reduce supplier impersonation, business email compromise, unauthorized bank changes, duplicate suppliers, and inaccurate payments.
Establish escalation and investigation procedures for suspicious, inconsistent, unusual, or high-risk requests.
Maintain control evidence and documentation supporting SOX, audit, compliance, and records-retention requirements.
Set and monitor data-quality and operating metrics, including accuracy, completeness, duplicate prevention, volume, aging, cycle time, service levels, rework, and exceptions.
Automate repetitive activities, streamline workflows, reduce manual handoffs, and expand exception-based processing while preserving strong controls.
Evaluate responsible uses of AI, analytics, and workflow tools for request triage, validation, anomaly detection, duplicate identification, and productivity.
Lead process and system improvements from requirements and testing through implementation, change management, and benefit measurement.
Partner across Accounts Payable, Procurement, Treasury, Tax, Compliance, Internal Audit, Technology, Cybersecurity, and business teams.
Build a culture of accountability, sound judgment, continuous improvement, collaboration, and appropriate challenge.

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or a related field—or equivalent relevant experience.

4 years of experience in Accounts Payable, Vendor Management, Procurement or related funcation

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

Formal people-leadership experience in a large, complex organization.
Experience with SAP, Coupa, Levelpath, supplier portals, master-data governance, or bank-validation solutions.
Experience with supplier identity verification, fraud prevention, payment-risk controls, SOX, or audit support.
Experience implementing workflow automation, analytics, AI-enabled solutions, or related process improvements.
Advanced Excel and/or Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or similar analytical tools.

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

Strong leadership and team development skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to exercise sound judgment and make effective decisions
Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy
Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
Ability to identify and implement process improvements

What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Team Member Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.