Manager, Accounts Payable (Shift: 3 PM IST onwards)

Eightfold is a global leader in an AI-native enterprise talent platform , trusted by the world’s largest & most respected Fortune 500 organizations. Our platform is built from the ground up, operating at scale across Azure and AWS, deployed in multiple regions globally, including IL4-compliant environments for the US Government, supporting users in 100+ countries and 30+ languages. Today, Eightfold is at the forefront of agentic AI, delivering intelligent agents that actively drive outcomes across hiring and talent workflows, while much of the industry is still experimenting with prototypes. Backed by over $410M in funding and valued at $2B+, we are defining the next era of agentic talent systems.

What sets Eightfold apart is not just the technology & our mission, but the team behind it. We are a deeply technical, execution-driven organization that values ownership, collaboration, and high standards. Our engineers, product leaders, and go-to-market teams work closely together — in person and across functions — to build systems that scale in the real world. If you’re excited to work on hard problems, move with urgency, raise the bar every day, and help build agentic systems that transform how the world works, Eightfold is the place to do it.

Role Overview

The Manager, Accounts Payable is responsible for overseeing the accounts payable activity, ensuring timely and accurate processing of invoices, and maintaining strong vendor relationships. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills to drive process improvements and ensure compliance with company policies.

Responsibilities

- Own the full-cycle global procure-to-pay AP process, including weekly and off-cycle payment runs approved per company policy and internal controls.
- Build, lead, coach, and mentor the AP team, set its vision and goals, and provide career development planning.
- Manage the AP month-end close, ensuring timely, accurate daily, weekly, and monthly entries (including inter-company and invoice accruals), supporting documentation, and variance-free reconciliations.
- Manage expense reporting, ensuring accurate account coding and T&E policy compliance.
- Monitor AP inboxes daily, resolve internal and external inquiries promptly, and ensure timely controls over the completeness of invoice integrations into the ERP.
- Research, resolve, and communicate issues in daily AP operations.
- Apply technical judgment to keep AP processing accurate and timely, including recording activity in the correct period, proper coding, and timely resolution of reconciling items.
- Drive continuous improvement through process improvements, technology solutions, and automation, and maintain AP policy and procedure documentation.
- Build and maintain relationships with vendors, suppliers, and business partners.
- Manage vendor maintenance per company policy, including accurate banking and tax documentation and monthly vendor spend reporting.
- Support accounting system implementation projects to scale operations.
- Support the accounting team on ad hoc projects such as YE 1099 reporting, process improvements, and audit readiness, as well as other department requests and projects.

Basic Qualifications

- 8+ years of AP accounting experience for US entities
- 2+ years of direct people management experience
- Strong end-to-end AP experience in a high-volume, fast-paced environment
- NetSuite or other AP tool experience
- Proven ability to prioritize team workloads with minimal supervision
- Extensive knowledge of accounting and management principles and AP procedures

We are a team of self-starters who excel in their fields. We believe in giving you responsibility, not a task. We want you to have ownership and pride in your work and see your work's positive impact on your colleagues, our customers, and the world. We believe in providing transparency and support so you can do the best work of your career. Hybrid Work @ Eightfold:   At Eightfold, we believe our best work happens when we collaborate closely, learn from one another, and build together. We follow a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with a strong emphasis on in-person collaboration to foster innovation, culture, and rapid execution. Employees based near our Santa Clara, London, Bangalore, and Noida offices are expected to  work from the office three days per week , as we believe regular in-person engagement is essential to how we build high-impact products and strong teams Eightfold.ai provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability.  Experience our comprehensive benefits with family medical, vision and dental coverage, a competitive base salary, and eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses or commissions. Our customer stories-  https://eightfold.ai/customers/customer-stories/ Press-  https://eightfold.ai/about/press