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About the Role

The Accounts Payable Specialist is an important gatekeeper for our outgoing payments, ensuring vendors get paid accurately and timely for services and products rendered.

Responsibilities

• Respond to external vendors and internal managers regarding all aspects of the accounts payable process, including processing invoices for payment, recording sales tax, assisting with bank reconciliations, and documenting loans.
• Research information to provide accurate and timely solutions to internal clients and vendors at multiple locations.
• Verify the accuracy of vendor invoices and confirm that the correct general ledger account codes are used.
• Generate payment to vendors on a routine schedule and match the payment with backup for review by the financial manager.
• Inspect paid and unpaid invoices including cleared payment inquiries and check voiding to maintain accurate files and records according to company standards.
• Drive electronic payment adoption by actively communicating with vendors to highlight the benefits of ACH/EFT and guiding them through the digital enrollment process.
• Review automatic payments to ensure correct coding and authorization as well as sufficient contracts and documentation.
• Reconcile outstanding check listing, proactively contacting vendors to identify lost or uncashed payments and facilitating reissues or cancellations as needed.
• Develop and maintain a filing system for financial information, records and documents to ensure easily available information and assist with any requests for such information.
• Monitor account balances, track expenses, prepare analyses of accounts and related financial activity to produce monthly financial reports.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience in an AP or general accounting role
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Attention to detail
• Strong problem-solving skills and work ethics
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Skills

• Excel
• AP automation tools (Stampli, Coupa, AvidXchange, etc.)
• ERP systems (Deacom, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage, SAP, etc.)

Experience Level

• 1-3 years