Sherrie-Gay Brotemarkle has built a 30-year career in accounting, specializing in Accounts Payable, and has held positions as AP Clerk, Staff Accountatnt, Supervisor and Manager across a range of industries including banking, telecommunications and manufacturing for public, private, for-profit and non-profit organizations. Her current role is Senior Director, Accounts Payable for the North America division of Wesco Distrubution, Inc. – a Fortune 200 global supply chain and logistics company with revenues exceeding $26 billion.
She began her career at Wesco in February 2021 as the AP Manager over 10 Wesco subsidiaries. Over the past five years , she received four promotions and has held the title of Senior Director- AP for the last two years. In her role at Wesco, she began by centralizing Accounts Payable operations for geographically dispersed AP teams operating in a virtual work environment, then later expanding to leading extensive system implementation and automation projects while overseeing daily operational processes.
Her automation efforts encompased overseeing the design , testing and implementation of ERP and workflow applications and enchancements, including Cora AP Flow and Gen AI projects. These initiatives bolstered efficiency across various ERP systems, reduced manual/redundant processes and contributed to a 10% reduction in invoice processing costs over a three-year period.
She currently serves as the Global Process Owner (GPO) for the company’s enterprisewide implementation of a digital data platform, designed to centralize accounts payable invoice processing from over 20 ERP systems into a single platform, Oracle Cloud Fusion ERP. Additionally, she has initiated automation projects utlizing RPAs and macros, successfully creating lean processes or eliminating manual functions delivering further cost savings to the organization.
She strategically introduced multiple initiatives targeted at accelerating value capture and generating revenue streams enhancing working capital, such as a virtual card payment solution, and credit recovery partnership resulting in annual revenues from payment volumes rebates and credit recovery averaging $9M over 36 months.
She earned a Master of Science in Fraud and Forensic Accounting from Carlow University in 2020. Drawing on her advanced training and expertise in AP, she established various processes and controls to mitigate fraud and reduce financial risk, including outsourcing payment processes in partnership with the banks, implementing check fraud protection measures, secondary approval controls and conducting regular audits of supplier master data and electronic payment information.
She leads a KPI-focused team of approximately 600 onshore and offshore employees working within designated functional areas of Accounts Payable. Her team management style incorporates leading with strategic focus on facilitating innovation and a culture of inclusivity and empowerment for individual contributors and team growth and advancement.
She is commtted to fostering cross-functional collaboration across departments to drive automation, reduce invoice resolution cycle times for exceptions, and enhance paid-on-time performance metrics with continued focus on accelerating value capture through ongoing investments and initiatives.