Accounts Payable Specialist

Summary of Position/Purpose:

The Accounts Payable Specialist will lead the Accounts Payable team in completing payments and controlling expenses by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices.

Essential Duties, Functions and/or Responsibilities:

• Supervise and assist other Accounts Payable staff.
• Accurate entry and timely vendor account set-ups and maintenance.
• Timely vendor invoice payments
• Vendor statement reconciliation and troubleshooting
• Monitor vendor discounts taken or lost
• Prepare credit notes to vendors
• Issue stop payments and/or void checks
• Prepares, verifies, and controls the entering of A/P related journal entries to the general ledger.
• Batch updates for rental payments
• Sub-ledger and general ledger account reconciliations
• Location specific accounting issues troubleshooting
• Year-end reporting and 1099 maintenance
• Provide excellent customer service to internal and external customers.
• Timely check printing and distribution
• Reconciles and verifies data entries; compares system reports to balances.
• Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports, recording entries.
• Pays employees by receiving and verifying expense reports; prepares checks.
• Maintains accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.
• Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.
• Maintains historical records for filing and auditing purposes.
• Disburses petty cash by recording entry, verifying documentation.
• Reports sales taxes by calculating requirements on paid invoices.
• Protects organization's value by maintaining information confidential.
• Other duties as assigned

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• 4+ years general accounting (A/P preferred) skills required
• Knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and procedures.
• Ability to train and support others.
• Customer Service Focus
• Knowledge of computerized accounting systems and applications.
• Excellence in Microsoft Office Products: Outlook, Excel, Word.
• Problem - solving with minimal supervision.
• Self - motivated with sense of urgency.
• Attention to detail; thorough and analytical.
• Good interpersonal and customer relations skills
• Excellence in General Math Skills
• Highly organized, professional, analytical, and an adept problem-solver.
• Willingness to work overtime when needed.
• Team player with good interpersonal, oral, and written communications skills
• Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and year-end deadlines that may interfere with time off work.
• Confidentiality is critical to success

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards.

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