Accounts Payable Specialist

About the role

The Accounts Payable Specialist will perform a wide variety of accounts payable functions including invoice processing, check disbursements, and customer-vendor relations, adhering to all laws, regulations, and Fontainebleau Las Vegas policies.

Responsibilities

• Match invoices with receivers, purchase orders, and requisitions
• Audit invoices to determine accurate coding to proper general ledger accounts
• Perform data entry associated with accounts payable
• Prepare and review payment runs for accuracy, payment terms, and proper approval
• Maintain vendor accounts while staying in compliance with Company policies and procedures
• Research and reconcile monthly vendor statements
• Provide excellent service and communication to internal customers and external vendors, ensuring issues are addressed in a timely manner
• Communicate problems or discrepancies to management in a timely and efficient manner

Requirements

• High School Diploma required
• Six (6) or more months of experience in an accounting clerk role
• Demonstrated thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks at once
• Professional verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced computer skills in MS Office, accounting software, and databases
• Ability to analyze large amounts of data and compile detailed reports
• Proven knowledge of payables standards and procedures
• Sound independent judgment
• Attention to detail, organizational, time-management, and problem-solving skills
• Good mathematical and clerical skills
• Customer service-oriented with good communication skills
• Ability to work well with co-workers as a team
• Well-groomed appearance

Skills

• Ability to read and interpret documents in English (e.g., safety rules, operating instructions, procedure manuals)
• Verbal and written communication skills in English
• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand and use hands and fingers to handle or utilize objects, tools, or controls
• Frequently required to reach with hands and arms, talk, or hear
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision and peripheral vision
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Ability to push, pull, reach, bend, twist, stoop, stack, crouch, kneel, and balance in varying work areas, including confined spaces

Work Environment

• Moderate noise level
• Exposure to an environment containing unrestricted secondhand tobacco smoke

Pay

$24.60 per hour