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Accounts Payable (AP) Supervisor

adidevelopments · Burlington, ON, Canada

AccountingManager LevelQuick applyfull-time8 days ago

About The Role

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead, coach, and support the Accounts Payable team, fostering a high-performing culture focused on accuracy, accountability, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
  • Oversee the full-cycle AP process, ensuring invoices, purchase orders, subcontractor payments, progress draws, holdbacks, and vendor payments are processed accurately and on time.
  • Ensure proper coding of invoices to projects, cost codes, departments, and GL accounts in alignment with construction and development accounting requirements.
  • Monitor team performance through clear goal-setting, regular coaching, and performance metrics aligned with company objectives.
  • Administer and optimize AP platforms, including TimberScan and SAP Concur, ensuring systems are used effectively and consistently across the organization.
  • Act as the main point of contact for vendor onboarding, credit applications, payment inquiries, and vendor account issues, building strong and professional relationships with suppliers, trades, consultants, and internal teams.
  • Review and maintain the vendor master file, including banking details, WSIB clearance certificates, insurance documentation, tax information, and other compliance requirements.
  • Support month-end and year-end processes, including vendor reconciliations, AP aging review, and resolution of outstanding discrepancies.
  • Work closely with the other teams to resolve invoice issues, payment discrepancies, contract billing concerns, and documentation gaps.
  • Ensure compliance with internal controls, company policies, audit requirements, and applicable construction-related payment documentation.
  • Develop and maintain AP templates, standard operating procedures, training materials, and process documentation to improve consistency and efficiency.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, reduce manual processes, improve reporting, and strengthen AP controls.
  • Participate in recruiting, onboarding, training, and developing AP team members.

What You Bring

  • 5+ years of progressive Accounts Payable experience, including supervisory or team leadership experience.
  • Experience in the construction, real estate development, property management, or project-based accounting environment is strongly preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field is preferred.
  • Strong understanding of full-cycle AP, vendor management, payment processing, invoice matching, coding, reconciliations, and month-end procedures.
  • Knowledge of construction accounting processes, including project cost coding, progress billing, subcontractor invoices, holdbacks, WSIB, insurance certificates, and vendor compliance documentation.
  • Experience with QuickBooks, Sage 300 CRE, TimberScan, SAP Concur, or similar AP and accounting systems is preferred.
  • Proven leadership skills with the ability to set clear expectations, coach team members, promote accountability, and drive results.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues, investigate discrepancies, and implement practical solutions.
  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with vendors, trades, project teams, senior management, and internal departments.
  • A proactive, hands-on approach with a continuous improvement mindset.
  • High level of integrity, professionalism, and discretion when handling sensitive financial and vendor information.
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Outlook, and Word.

Why You'll Love Working Here

  • Learning & Development Reimbursement: Adi encourages team members to never stop learning and continuously improve. We provide Adians with tuition and education reimbursements to support team members in their development.
  • Competitive Paid Time Off : Team members are provided with 15 days of Vacation, 5 paid Wellness Days and 3 paid Sick Days annually.
  • Competitive Salaries: Adi regularly conducts compensation market reviews to ensure our total compensation package remains competitive.
  • Employee Home Ownership Program: Adians have the opportunity to live in the beautiful communities we create through our Employee Home Ownership Program. Eligible team members will receive a % discount off the total purchase price.
  • Comprehensive Benefits Plan: Adi provides all full-time team members and dependents with benefits coverage for dental, prescriptions, vision care, paramedical practitioners, life insurance and more.
  • Flexible Health, Lifestyle & Wellness Personal Spending Account: Annual health, lifestyle & wellness spending accounts that can be used for fitness classes, gym memberships, family & pet needs, additional health benefits and more!
  • Dedicated Online Mental Health Partner: We understand how important mental wellbeing is for our employees, which is why we have partnered with an online therapy provider that employees can access 24/7.

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