Convergent Research is a nonprofit science studio best known for pioneering the Focused Research Organization (FRO).  We’re launching moonshot science projects which may change the trajectory of scientific progress. Large scale brain mapping, climate measurement, and software for math all have something in common - they each need a nonprofit legal entity, payroll providers, health benefits, boards, contracts, office space, press releases, websites… For each of the FROs that Convergent Research supports, we provide the backend infrastructure to help them move fast.

About the Role

As Convergent Research and our portfolio of FROs continue to grow, maintaining accurate, timely, and compliant financial operations is critical to everything we do. We're looking for a seasoned Accounts Payable Manager (AP Manager) to join our finance team — someone who can fully own the AP function, operate with a high degree of independence, and bring both rigor and judgment to a fast-moving, multi-entity, multi-country environment spanning the US and UK.

You'll be the in-house expert on all things payable — the person who keeps AP running accurately and smoothly day to day across Convergent and its growing portfolio of FROs.

Reporting to the Procurement Systems Manager, your role is to bring procurement systems to life in practice: maintaining workflows, championing policies, and feeding insights and improvement ideas back from your day-to-day work. You're the operational engine that makes the systems run.

You will work closely within the Finance team to ensure invoices are coded accurately and consistently across entities. You'll support FROs with procurement and billing needs, maintain strong vendor relationships, and serve as a go-to AP resource for Convergent.

This is a fully remote position with domestic travel required quarterly for team and organizational onsites, and as needed.

Outro

Convergent Research aims to help fill a structural gap in today's R&D system. We enable fundamental research that requires unusual levels of scale and coordination yet is not rapidly monetizable by industry. We’re bringing together top talent from academia, industry, and startups to build a new model for innovative R&D.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. We believe in hiring individuals based on their unique talents—not on race, color, religion, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or our company policies. We are more than a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Our goal is to foster a healthy, safe, and respectful environment where all employees are valued and treated with dignity. Harassment of any kind is not tolerated here.  #LI-remote #LI-KP1