Accounts Payable Specialist
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Responsibilities
Under direct supervision, the Accounts Payable Specialist is responsible for reviewing, reconciling, and processing all account payable activities. This position is also responsible for providing clear, accurate, and thorough information to internal or external customer inquiries. Finally, this position ensures that all documents are processed and stored in a timely manner.
Primary duties and responsibilities include:
- Processing bills, invoices, employee expense vouchers, and other accounts payables into the financial information system according to company policies and guidelines.
- Reviewing additions and extensions on all bills and invoices, verifying authorization for payment and assigning priority.
- Entering data into system from source documents. Verifying data entered by means of sight verification and system on-line edit procedures. Correcting invalid or incorrect data as necessary.
- Preparing accruals on a monthly basis.
- Resolving internal or external customer inquiries in a timely manner.
- Reconciling all problems with invoice processing with appropriate parties. Informing manager when problems cannot be resolved in a timely manner.
- Ensuring that all documents are stored in a timely manner.
- Scanning or photocopy documentation as necessary.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum requirements include:
- High school diploma or equivalent. Associate's degree is desirable.
- Five (5) years prior experience processing accounts payable invoices, bills and employee expenses in a corporate environment required.
- Must be flexible, organized, and able to work under time constraints and deadlines.
- Must be detail-oriented with the ability to quickly resolve problems related to the process of paying invoices and expenses.
- Good verbal and written communication skills, and solid analytical skills are imperative.
- Must be able to work well with people and maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
- Ability to work with computers and the necessary software used by the department, including spreadsheets and query tools.
- Must be able to effectively communicate with employees at all levels of the organization.