Accounts Payable Manager

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
The Accounts Payable Manager provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for AP functions across North America(NA) and Latin America (LATAM). This role focuses exclusively on execution governance, rigorous vendor management, and performance optimization.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Leadership & Governance
Execution Governance: Lead day-to-day AP operations for NA and LATAM, ensuring consistent execution and adherence to documented policies, standards, and payment readiness.
Performance Accountability: Serve as the primary owner for AP and vendor master performance metrics, ensuring regional outputs align with global business objectives.
Audit & Controls: Strengthen the control environment by maintaining rigorous documentation standards, approval evidence, and consistent issue remediation processes to ensure audit readiness.
Automation & AI Integration: Identify and champion opportunities to integrate AI-driven solutions and automated workflows into the AP lifecycle to reduce manual touchpoints.
People & Performance Leadership
Direct Supervision: Lead a specialized team of AP and Vendor Management Specialists, fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion and belonging.
Talent Development: Drive the full talent lifecycle—including coaching, individualized development plans, and succession planning—to build a high-performing regional team.
Operational Capacity: Monitor workload distribution and exception trends to proactively resolve bottlenecks and ensure seamless coverage.
Tax Compliance & Regulatory Filings
1099 & 1042 Reporting: Direct the annual preparation and filing of IRS Forms 1099 and 1042/1042-S
Unclaimed Property: Oversee the identification, due diligence, and state-specific escheatment filings for unclaimed property.
Vendor Management & Process Optimization
Vendor Ecosystem Management: Oversee the end-to-end vendor lifecycle, ensuring data integrity aligns with AP standards and downstream payment requirements.
Workflow Transformation: Harvest team insights to eliminate redundancies, streamline workflows, and drive continuous improvement to minimize rework.
Strategic Partnerships: Collaborate with Procurement, Compliance, Treasury, Accounting, and IT to bridge functional gaps and resolve systemic issues in vendor data quality.
Qualifications & Requirements
Education
Bachelor’s Degree Required: Preferably in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.
Experience
Professional: 7+ years of progressive experience in Accounts Payable.
Leadership: 3–5 years of direct people management, specifically managing senior-level individual contributors.
Technical Compliance: Proven track record of managing 1099, 1042-S, and Unclaimed Property filings.
Systems: Advanced proficiency in enterprise ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite), Advanced Excel, OCR platforms, banking portals, tax compliance software and business spend management platforms (e.g. Coupa)
Skills
A strong, effective communicator who expertly navigates all levels of the organization.
Ability to manage up by distilling complex operational data into concise, actionable insights for senior leadership.
Strong analytical ability to interpret exception trends and forecast capacity needs.
Expertly navigate cross-functional partnerships
Spanish Speaking a Plus
Benefits/Perks:
Competitive compensation
Generous Paid Time Off (5 weeks PTO your first year!)
4 days (one per quarter) of Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
Year-End break from Dec 26th – Dec 31st
We offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and Wellness Programs
Paid parental leave
An infrastructure that allows flexible working arrangements
Formal and informal reward, recognition, and acknowledgment programs
Reasonable Accommodation
Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre at recruiting@careers.sabre.com.
Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Sabre is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals. EEO IS THE LAW
#LI-Hybrid#LI-KN1