Accounts Payable Processor

About The Chefs' Warehouse

The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (http://www.chefswarehouse.com) combines exceptional quality and brand building with broadline food service distribution for more than 40 years. With Protein, Specialty, Produce, and Broadline offerings, we service the most discerning chefs in a hybrid approach of convenience and superior quality. We introduce more than 4,000 artisan producers of the world’s finest ingredients from over 40 countries to the finest chefs in the world. We passionately consult, sell, and build relationships with more than 50,000 customers through the most experienced network of over 600 consultive sales associates, best-in-breed technology, rapid service, and support levels that solidify our long-standing ties to both established and up-and-coming premium restaurants.

Position Summary

Compute classify, record, and verify numerical data for use in maintaining accounting records by performing the following duties.

What you’ll do

• Oversee the daily operations of the accounts payable department, managing workflows, and ensuring accuracy and timeliness of payments.
• Avoid financial deadlines and provide customer service to all internal stakeholders.
• Maintain accounts and resolve any discrepancies.
• Develop and implement accounting policies and procedures.
• Prepare the annual audit.
• Compile and sort accounts payable documents, such as invoices, purchase orders, and bill of ladings, substantiating business transactions and obtaining appropriate approvals for three-way match process.
• Audit invoices against purchase orders, research discrepancies, and receive proper approval prior to payment.
• Investigate problems that vendors or purchasing agents have with obtaining payment for bills.
• Calculate and record charges, refunds, cost of lost or damaged goods, freight charges, rentals, and similar items.
• Pull invoices for weekly check payments, EFT payments and wire payments run and assemble checks to be mailed.
• Prepare vouchers, invoices, reports, and other records, and review for accuracy.
• Verify and maintain appropriate approvals for inventory and non-inventory purchase orders as requested.
• Review meat and seafood receiving daily, working with buyers and vendors as needed on discrepancies.
• Track and record third party delivery account payable invoices, including providing monthly accruals for expenses incurred.
• Prepare In-transit invoices and purchase orders for returning products.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

About you

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Strong working knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications with emphasis on Excel
• Experience with ERP financial systems, such as Canopy or JD Edwards is a plus

Perks & Benefits

• Paid Vacations, Paid Holidays
• Health, Dental and Medical Benefits
• Weekly pay
• Life Insurance
• 4% above cost for our high-quality food products
• Employee discounts for travel and events
• 401(k)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The Chefs' Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer

that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment. We are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.