Accounts Payable Manager

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Finance

This role leads and scales the Accounts Payable function, ensuring timely and accurate payment processes, managing a team, and driving operational excellence. It involves optimizing A/P processes, controls, and policies, improving cash management, and partnering with IT/Finance for automation. The role requires strong leadership, operational mindset, and expertise in AP processes and ERP systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage, mentor, and scale the AP function (currently 2 AP Clerks), ensuring strong execution, clear prioritization, and continuous development.
  2. Own the end-to-end A/P cycle: invoice processing, approvals, payments, vendor management, and accounting accuracy.
  3. Act as the day-to-day decision maker for A/P operations: manage urgencies, resolve escalations, and mitigate financial and operational risks.
  4. Design and continuously improve A/P processes, controls, and policies to enhance efficiency, reduce risks, and support scale and audit readiness.
  5. Drive improvements in cash management (DPO, payment timing, etc.) while maintaining strong vendor relationships.

Skills

Required

  • Accounts Payable processes
  • Controls
  • Accounting (OPEX/CAPEX)
  • Vendor management
  • Payment processing
  • Leadership
  • Process improvement
  • Collaboration
  • Excel
  • ERP systems
  • English fluency

Nice to have

  • French fluency
  • SAP S/4HANA

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of AP experience
  • 4+ years in a managerial role
  • scale Mistral AI’s Accounts Payable function
  • support Mistral’s rapid growth and scalability
  • critical to bring structure, visibility, and control
  • automate A/P workflows