AP & Employee Expense Specialist

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Mixpanel</strong></p> <p>Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit <a href="mixpanel.com" target="_blank">mixpanel.com</a> to learn more.</p></div><p><strong>About the Operational Finance Team</strong></p> <p>The Operational Finance team keeps the business running day-to-day across Accounting &amp; AP, Billing, Collections, Payroll, and Deal Desk. This role sits within the Accounting &amp; AP function, which is responsible for accurately recording all vendor-related transactions and keeping our vendors paid on time.</p> <p><strong>**This role is open to candidates based in any of Mixpanel’s U.S. hubs, including Austin, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles/Orange County, New York, San Diego, San Francisco/Bay Area, and Seattle. We’re flexible on location, with a preference for candidates in Eastern or Central time zones to best support team collaboration.</strong></p> <p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>As an AP &amp; Employee Expense Specialist, you'll be the primary owner of Mixpanel's accounts payable and employee expense programs, operating across Zip (AP) and Navan (T&amp;E). You bring accuracy, timeliness, and analytical instinct to what might look like transactional work — surfacing patterns, forming recommendations, and driving resolution without being asked.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>&nbsp; Triage and manage the AP inbox in Zip daily; assess all flagged invoices within one week with documented rationale</li> <li>&nbsp; Own the weekly payment run, wallet funding analysis, and payment readiness reviews; flag persistent vendor patterns with a proposed fix</li> <li>&nbsp; Monitor and clear the Navan flagged transaction queue daily; maintain standardized response templates and upload weekly activity to NetSuite</li> <li>&nbsp; Prepare monthly T&amp;E flag trend analysis with MoM data, root cause hypothesis, and a concrete recommendation</li> <li>&nbsp; Manage the physical card program using the three-strikes compliance framework; draft corrective action communications for manager review</li> <li>&nbsp; Prepare AP aging reports, Navan reconciliation, T&amp;E accruals, and international reclassifications at month-end close</li> &