H-1B Visa Accounts Payable Manager Jobs
Accounts Payable Manager roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship under the specialty occupation standard, typically requiring a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field. Employers filing an LCA must certify they'll pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for the role's SOC code and work location.
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Institutional Finance: Accounting & Financial Reporting
Position Title:
Senior Accounts Payable Manager
Job Family Group:
University Support Staff
Job Description Summary:
The Senior Accounts Payable Manager is responsible for leading the accounts payable function, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant processing of invoices and payments while maintaining strong internal controls and compliance with university policies and state guidelines. This role oversees accounts payable professionals, ensures payment issues are resolved, and drives process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy. The manager collaborates closely with Procurement, Central Finance, and departmental professionals to support financial reporting, cash flow management, and audit requirements. Success in this role requires strong leadership, analytical skills, attention to detail, and a commitment to delivering excellent customer service to both internal and external stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities
- Oversee all accounts payable activities including invoice and payment processing, customer service, and performance monitoring.
- Supervise, coach, and develop team of accounts payable professionals, including workload management, and performance evaluations.
- Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures using a risk‑based approach to ensure strong internal controls and compliance with university policies and state guidelines.
- Establish, monitor, and report on service level expectations including invoice cycle times, backlog, aged invoices, and other key performance indicators.
- Review third-party reporting related to policy compliance, duplicate payments, and spend activity to identify potential control risks, unusual trends, or exceptions and coordinate follow-up as needed.
- Serve as primary point of escalation for supplier disputes, complex issues, and departmental concerns related to accounts payable.
- Manage administration of business procurement and travel credit cards including issuance of new cards, credit limits, inactivating cards and card reconciliation/payment.
- Collaborate with Procurement and other departments to improve procure-to-pay processes and ensure timely and accurate invoice processing and payment administration.
- Support Central Finance in month-end and year-end close activities related to accounts payable, including account reconciliations.
- Manage accounts payable related audit requirements.
- Complete 1099 reporting for Kansas Bridging Plan participants.
- Serve as Workday accounts payable module business owner, ensuring alignment with university needs and policies, and participating in system upgrades and enhancements.
- Develop and deliver training materials, guides, and workshops on accounts payable policies and procedures.
- Serve as a trusted business advisor to campus partners by acting as an industry expert in accounts payable best practices.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, duties, and assignments. Furthermore, job duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Required Qualifications
Work Experience:
- Five years of progressive accounts payable or accounting experience. Relevant education may be substituted on a year for year basis.
- Three years of experience supervising, training, and developing teams.
- Experience working in a large, complex organizational setting.
- Experience with automated, high-volume accounts payable environments.
- Experience improving or standardizing processes through workflow tools, OCR, AI, and electronic invoicing.
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business, Management, Economics, or related field.
Work Experience:
- Experience applying Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) internal control principles or working in a SOX-regulated or audited environment.
- Accounting knowledge: Understanding of debits and credits, general ledger accounts, accruals, and month-end close activities.
- Financial systems: Experience with ERP systems such as Workday, Oracle, SAP, Banner, PeopleSoft, or Dynamics.
Skills
- Problem-solving.
- Decision-making.
- Analytical thinking.
- Accuracy.
- Detail oriented.
- Deadline management.
- Multi-tasking.
- Communication.
- Customer service.
- Collaboration.
- Microsoft Excel.
- Reconciliations.
- Data analysis.
Required Documents
- Resume
- Cover Letter
Comprehensive Benefits Package:
Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available.
Employee Type:
Regular
Time Type:
Full time
Rate Type:
Salary
Compensation Statement:
The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, education, experience and training, qualifications relative to the requirements of the position, and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range, taking into account the combination of factors listed above.
Pay Range:
$80,600.00 - $120,900.00
Minimum
$80,600.00
Midpoint
$100,800.00
Maximum
$120,900.00
Department:
Institutional Finance: Accounting & Financial Reporting
Position Title:
Senior Accounts Payable Manager
Job Family Group:
University Support Staff
Job Description Summary:
The Senior Accounts Payable Manager is responsible for leading the accounts payable function, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant processing of invoices and payments while maintaining strong internal controls and compliance with university policies and state guidelines. This role oversees accounts payable professionals, ensures payment issues are resolved, and drives process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy. The manager collaborates closely with Procurement, Central Finance, and departmental professionals to support financial reporting, cash flow management, and audit requirements. Success in this role requires strong leadership, analytical skills, attention to detail, and a commitment to delivering excellent customer service to both internal and external stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities
- Oversee all accounts payable activities including invoice and payment processing, customer service, and performance monitoring.
- Supervise, coach, and develop team of accounts payable professionals, including workload management, and performance evaluations.
- Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures using a risk‑based approach to ensure strong internal controls and compliance with university policies and state guidelines.
- Establish, monitor, and report on service level expectations including invoice cycle times, backlog, aged invoices, and other key performance indicators.
- Review third-party reporting related to policy compliance, duplicate payments, and spend activity to identify potential control risks, unusual trends, or exceptions and coordinate follow-up as needed.
- Serve as primary point of escalation for supplier disputes, complex issues, and departmental concerns related to accounts payable.
- Manage administration of business procurement and travel credit cards including issuance of new cards, credit limits, inactivating cards and card reconciliation/payment.
- Collaborate with Procurement and other departments to improve procure-to-pay processes and ensure timely and accurate invoice processing and payment administration.
- Support Central Finance in month-end and year-end close activities related to accounts payable, including account reconciliations.
- Manage accounts payable related audit requirements.
- Complete 1099 reporting for Kansas Bridging Plan participants.
- Serve as Workday accounts payable module business owner, ensuring alignment with university needs and policies, and participating in system upgrades and enhancements.
- Develop and deliver training materials, guides, and workshops on accounts payable policies and procedures.
- Serve as a trusted business advisor to campus partners by acting as an industry expert in accounts payable best practices.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, duties, and assignments. Furthermore, job duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Required Qualifications
Work Experience:
- Five years of progressive accounts payable or accounting experience. Relevant education may be substituted on a year for year basis.
- Three years of experience supervising, training, and developing teams.
- Experience working in a large, complex organizational setting.
- Experience with automated, high-volume accounts payable environments.
- Experience improving or standardizing processes through workflow tools, OCR, AI, and electronic invoicing.
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business, Management, Economics, or related field.
Work Experience:
- Experience applying Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) internal control principles or working in a SOX-regulated or audited environment.
- Accounting knowledge: Understanding of debits and credits, general ledger accounts, accruals, and month-end close activities.
- Financial systems: Experience with ERP systems such as Workday, Oracle, SAP, Banner, PeopleSoft, or Dynamics.
Skills
- Problem-solving.
- Decision-making.
- Analytical thinking.
- Accuracy.
- Detail oriented.
- Deadline management.
- Multi-tasking.
- Communication.
- Customer service.
- Collaboration.
- Microsoft Excel.
- Reconciliations.
- Data analysis.
Required Documents
- Resume
- Cover Letter
Comprehensive Benefits Package:
Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available.
Employee Type:
Regular
Time Type:
Full time
Rate Type:
Salary
Compensation Statement:
The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, education, experience and training, qualifications relative to the requirements of the position, and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range, taking into account the combination of factors listed above.
Pay Range:
$80,600.00 - $120,900.00
Minimum
$80,600.00
Midpoint
$100,800.00
Maximum
$120,900.00
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as an Accounts Payable Manager
Verify your SOC code before applying
Accounts Payable Managers are typically filed under SOC 11-3031. Confirm this on O*NET before interviewing so you can discuss the specialty occupation requirement confidently with prospective employers and their HR teams.
Check employer LCA history on Migrate Mate
Search Migrate Mate to see which companies have filed LCAs for financial management roles in your target cities. Employers with active filing history are far more likely to move quickly through the H-1B sponsorship process.
Benchmark your offered wage against DOL data
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location before you negotiate. Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above Level I to IV, and knowing this protects your offer.
Get your academic credentials evaluated early
If your accounting or finance degree is from outside the U.S., obtain a credential evaluation from a NACES-member organization before the offer stage. USCIS requires documented equivalency to a U.S. bachelor's for specialty occupation approval.
Clarify the cap-subject timeline with your employer
Most Accounts Payable Manager roles at private companies are cap-subject, meaning your start date depends on the April lottery. Confirm your employer understands the October 1 start requirement so budget and onboarding planning aligns with the H-1B calendar.
Request employer support for premium processing
Standard H-1B adjudication can take several months. Ask whether your employer will file for premium processing through USCIS, which targets a 15-business-day decision. This matters especially if you're transitioning from OPT with a tight cap-gap window.
H-1B Visa Accounts Payable Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Accounts Payable Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the employer can demonstrate the position normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a directly related field. Generalist roles where any business degree qualifies can face RFEs, so employers typically document that the role involves complex financial controls, audit oversight, or ERP system management that requires field-specific education.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Accounts Payable Manager positions?
Large corporations, Fortune 500 companies, and multinational firms with dedicated finance departments file the most H-1B LCAs for AP management roles. You can browse employers with verified H-1B filing history for financial management positions on Migrate Mate, filtered by location and role type, without having to search government disclosure files manually.
How does the prevailing wage requirement affect Accounts Payable Manager job offers?
Your employer must file an LCA certifying they'll pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and geographic work location. The wage level, from Level I to Level IV, reflects your experience and the complexity of the role. Offers below the certified wage are a compliance violation, so verify the applicable level using the OFLC Wage Search before finalizing your compensation negotiation.
Can I switch to a different employer after my H-1B is approved for an AP Manager role?
Yes. Under AC21 portability, if your H-1B has been approved for at least 180 days and your new employer files an H-1B transfer petition before your current status expires, you can start the new job upon filing rather than waiting for approval. The new role must be in the same or a similar SOC occupation category, which is straightforward for lateral AP Manager moves.
What happens to my H-1B status if my employer eliminates the AP Manager role or conducts layoffs?
You enter a 60-day grace period from your last day of employment, during which you can find a new sponsoring employer and have them file a transfer petition. If the new petition is filed within that window, your work authorization continues. You can't work during the grace period unless the transfer petition is received by USCIS, so acting quickly on the job search is critical.