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Director, Finance Shared Services (Accounts Payable)

Location Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota Date posted 03/06/2026 Job ID 22746 Salary range $123,800.00 - $206,800.00 Work arrangement: Hybrid Schedule: Full Time
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CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world.  We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world.  Most of our employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.

Summary

The Director of FSS Accounts Payable (AP) is responsible for leading the enterprise‑wide Invoice to Pay process across all business units, locations, and ERP systems (and Payroll, Expense Management, and Fixed Assets). This role provides full ownership of the invoice‑to‑payment lifecycle and ensures strong controls, payment accuracy, vendor experience, and process standardization. The Director drives upstream alignment with sourcing and procurement, leads payment strategy in partnership with Treasury, and oversees exception management and automation efforts across a high‑volume, high‑complexity environment. Success requires exceptional process discipline, strong control expertise, and the ability to lead both operational performance and strategic transformation.
This role is hybrid and requires regular on-site presence. The position may be based in Inver Grove Heights, MN, or in another designated CHS regional office location.

Responsibilities

End‑to‑End Procure‑to‑Pay Process Ownership

  • Lead full lifecycle AP processes including invoice intake, validation, approval, posting, payment execution, and reconciliation.
  • Understand and address upstream procurement impacts—PO usage, vendor setup, sourcing practices—to improve AP efficiency and control.

Control Environment, Compliance & Audit Readiness

  • Establish and maintain preventive and detective controls across invoice processing, approvals, and payments.
  • Ensure consistent control execution across multiple ERPs, intake channels, and business environments.

Payment Strategy & Working Capital Discipline

  • Lead payment method optimization (ACH, electronic payments, PO usage) to reduce cost, improve control, and enhance vendor experience.
  • Balance timely payments with working capital objectives in partnership with Treasury.

Vendor Master Data & Upstream Integration

  • Oversee governance for vendor changes, validations, and verbal verification controls.
  • Partner with Sourcing, Master Data, and Treasury to reduce downstream invoice defects and rework.
  • Ensure AP does not compensate for upstream breakdowns through manual interventions.

Volume Management & Exception Handling

  • Operations to manage high transaction volume and seasonal peaks without compromising controls.
  • Develop clear, efficient resolution paths for price mismatches, missing POs, and lien‑related complications.
  • Prevent exception queues from becoming stagnant backlog through disciplined monitoring and ownership.

Workforce & Capability Design

  • Build staffing models aligned to transaction volume, complexity, and automation maturity.
  • Ensure clear ownership across invoice intake, payments, and vendor support teams.

Continuous Improvement & Automation Leadership

  • Drive initiatives that reduce manual touches, increase automation, and simplify AP execution.
  • Partner with CI and Transformation teams to embed sustainable improvements into standard work.
  • Embed and monitor KPI/SLA metrics to drive performance.

Stakeholder Communication & Escalation Discipline

  • Set clear expectations with business partners on AP responsibilities versus upstream ownership.
  • Communicate tradeoffs between speed, cost, controls, and vendor experience.

Minimum Qualifications (required)

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Business, Business Administration, or related field
  • 7+ years of experience in Finance, Accounting, and/or Financial Planning and Analysis
  • Prior leadership experience with progressively advancing level of leadership responsibilities

Additional Qualifications

  • Strong experience in Procure‑to‑Pay, Accounts Payable, Shared Services, or related financial operations.
  • Proven ability to lead cross‑functional collaboration with Procurement, Sourcing, Treasury, and Master Data.Expertise in operational performance management and process standardization.
  • Champion of automation and processing efficiency, leveraging ERP systems and digital tools (RPA, AI)
  • SAP experience
  • Ability to lead large teams, mentor and develop teams, fostering a culture of accountability and Continuous Improvement.
  • CPA, CMA, MBA preferred

CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.

CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.       

Please note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. If you have questions regarding an employment opportunity, please reach out to chscareers@chsinc.com; to verify that the communication is from CHS.

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