Manager Accounts Payable

Join CPKC, North America’s first transnational railroad connecting U.S. Canada and Mexico, where your career drives progress and safety is paramount. We connect communities, fuel economic growth, and provide meaningful work in a culture that values diversity, accountability, and pride. With opportunities for training, development, and advancement, you’re not just building a career—you’re part of something bigger. Together, we move goods, connect people, and create lasting change. Your future starts here.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

This position is responsible for the timely and accurate processing and payment of Accounts Payable (AP) for Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway (CPKCR). This position is responsible for driving efficiency through continuous improvement initiatives, leading projects and promoting process automation. Leadership scope includes overseeing a team that includes both non-union and union employees that processes payments to suppliers accurately and in a timely fashion and investigates and resolves issues to facilitate payment.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Drive efficiency by leading continuous improvement initiatives, leading projects and promoting process automation
• Ensure processes and controls are understood by all and that everyone is executing to them. Ensure adherence to Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Internal Control Framework
• Lead AP projects and identify, investigate and resolve issues
• Ensure appropriate documentation of all processes in the AP department (including training materials, audit documents, process documents and work instructions)
• Train and coach staff, oversee their work, answer questions, ensure they understand their role and responsibilities as well as company policies
• Collaborate with approving departments to resolve invoice processing issues, ensuring timely payments and efficient handling of vendor and internal inquiries. Proactively implement solutions to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and control in AP processes while minimizing errors and streamlining future transactions
• Manage unionized and non-unionized staff including record and monitor attendance, plan and schedule vacations, enforce consequence leadership as required
• Ensure completion of monthly account reconciliations
• Oversee document management, coordinate with external scanning provider to ensure invoice documents are sent out for scanning every week and are scanned in a timely fashion by the provider. Ensure that documents are accessible as required by internal audit and other auditors
• Evaluate and present staffing recommendations to Network Service Center (NSC) management where either increased or reduced staffing is required to perform the required duties

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, business, or other related field of study
• 5+ years leadership or supervisory experience in a fast-paced AP team with excellent knowledge of standard methodologies for AP
• Experience with SAP
• Experience leading projects and driving enhancements
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Driving for process compliance while maintaining a high level of employee and supplier satisfaction

WHAT CPKC HAS TO OFFER:

• Flexible and competitive benefits package
• Competitive company pension and/or retirement plans
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Performance Incentive Plan
• Annual Fitness Subsidy
• Part-time Studies Program

PRE-EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:

Background Investigation

• Criminal history check
• Education verification
• Professional references

BECOMING A RAILROADER:

As an employee with a North American presence, the possibility does exist that the location of your position may be changed based on organizational requirements.

Management Conductor Program

Becoming a qualified conductor or locomotive engineer is the single best way for a management employee to learn the business at CPKC. You may be required to obtain a certification or to maintain your current certification/qualification as a conductor or locomotive engineer.

CULTURE OF INCLUSION:

For our U.S. applicants, CPKC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, inclusive of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For Canadian applicants CPKC is an employment equity employer committed to the principles of employment equity and inclusion. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply including: women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), members of the LGBTQ+ community and people with disabilities. Accommodations for the job application process can be provide, as appropriate, upon request. All applicant information will be managed in accordance with the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

• Req ID: 104452
• Department: Information Services & Network Service Centre (NSC)
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Position Type: Non-Union
• Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Country: Canada
• % of Travel: None
• # of Positions: 1
• Job Grade: 4
• Job Available to: Internal & External

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