Sarah Gojcaj Styx

Manager, Accounts Payable

Mission Pet Health formerly Mission Veterinary Partners

Lead a 14-person Accounts Payable organization at Mission Pet Health, the multi-location veterinary services platform formed by the merger of Mission Veterinary Partners and Southern Veterinary Partners.

Merger integration

• Led the AP team through the consolidation of legacy processes, systems, and teams, keeping invoice processing and payments running through the Workday and Factura transition and post-go-live challenges.
• Designed a structured outreach and escalation model for invoices awaiting hospital and regional leadership approval, reducing outstanding approval volumes and setting clear ownership across AP and field operations.
• Defined the vision for centralized AP reporting and partnered with technical teams to start invoice lifecycle metrics, productivity reporting, and operational dashboards.
• Partnered with IT, Factura, and Workday teams to improve invoice assignment, coding, approval routing, and exception handling, and supported standardization of supplier coding and purchasing processes.
• Identified purchasing and invoice-processing practices that could create sales and use tax exposure, supported audits and procure-to-pay readiness, and pursued historical invoice data extraction ahead of legacy system retirement.

Before the merger at Mission Veterinary Partners

• Primary AP contributor across all target operating model sessions, independently authoring the AP documentation.
• Partnered with newly acquired veterinary hospitals to onboard AP early, aligning processes and preventing downstream vendor escalations.
• Led implementation and ongoing optimization of EchoVera OCR and built a dedicated OCR support function.
• Managed electronic invoicing for large national vendors, 10,000+ invoices a month via SFTP and API, within an AP throughput of 65,000+ invoices a month.
• Partnered with Palette and internal legal on a custom Relief DVM invoicing module for relief veterinarians.
• Led the transition of payment operations from Bill.com to Sage Intacct and drove ACH adoption, cutting payment processing time by 20%.
• Brought utility shut-offs to zero across 2,500+ utility accounts with a contracts module and automated validation built with Palette.
• Established the AP Vendor Master Data function and fraud prevention controls, and owned the end-to-end 1099 filing program.
• Restructured AP into specialized functional roles and promoted three AP Leads from within.
• Partnered with BI on AP metrics, dashboards, and month-end close reporting.

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• Facilitated cross-business-unit requirement workshops, turning operational pain points into system enhancements and transition plans.
• Presented AP KPIs to senior leadership and drove root-cause analysis that materially reduced cycle time.

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• Partnered with IT to design and implement a custom AP workflow management system.
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