Accounts Payable Specialist

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Accounts Payable professional to join our team at Hirsh Precision, a leader in US manufacturing serving the medical, aerospace, industrial, and scientific industries. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of progressive, role-specific Senior Accounts Payable experience in public companies with $30M or more in revenues. You will play a key role in our financial operations, ensuring accuracy in accounting and compliance while developing and maintaining systems, procedures, and policies for AP functions.

This position reports to our Corporate Controller and collaborates with operations, leadership, and the Purchasing team to provide accounting expertise and conduct 3-way (PO + Receipt + Invoice) matching.

Responsibilities

• Accounts Payable (80% of responsibilities):
  • Ensure timely and accurate payments, reconcile AP accounts, and resolve accounting questions
  • Proficiency in 3-way matching (PO + Receipt + Invoice)
  • Full cycle accounts payable
  • Reconcile bank and credit card statements
  • Check/ACH positive pay
  • Clean up and reconcile vendor accounts
  • Petty cash reconciliation
  • Reconcile AP sub-ledgers
  • Prepare accounting statements and materials required for audits
  • Review financial status and progress, including past due reporting
  • Analyze reports for weekly bank reporting
  • Develop and maintain systems, procedures, and policies for accounts payable functions
  • Drive process improvements and procedures
  • Proficient knowledge of 1099 processes
  • Monthly customer statements and reconciliations
• Accounts Receivable (20% of responsibilities):
  • Daily generation of invoices and customer emails
  • Daily application of cash receipts to AR
  • Monthly customer statements and reconciliations

Requirements

• Five years or more of accounting experience, preferably in public companies of $30M or more in revenues
• Five years or more of experience specifically in accounts payable
• General business or accounting degree
• Experience in a multi-entity environment

Skills

• Proven expertise in accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR)
• Experience with mid to upper-tier ERP systems (Infor Syteline, Epicor, Oracle, SAP)
• Intermediate/advanced knowledge of MS Excel tools (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP's, Formulas, etc.)
• Functional understanding of general ledger and journal entries
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with cross-functional leaders and their teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a proven ability to collaborate with a team
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated success in process improvement
• Ability to generate and maintain standard operating procedures (SOP)
• Proficiency with pre-payments and pre-paid services

Pay

$70,000 - $80,000 per year