Accounts Payable Specialist

Essential Job Functions

• Maintains an effective control environment under SOX 404 for the accounting operations he or she oversees.
• Reviews incoming invoices and documentation to ensure proper recording and appropriate authorization for payment.
• Checks figures, postings, and documents to ensure accuracy and mathematical correctness.
• Prepares invoice vouchers for payment and invoice deduction notices as necessary.
• Prepares and generates all accounts payable payments on a weekly basis, including checks, EFT, E-Payables, Quick Checks, etc.
• Sets up new vendors in the accounting system and ensures the vendor master file records are updated.
• Identifies and ensures timely resolution of problems; reviews system reports and coordinates follow-up as needed.
• Serves as a liaison with other departments and vendors to provide timely processing and quality assurance of disbursements.
• Prepares reports at month-end and year-end close as well as specially requested reports for management or internal customers.
• Provides outstanding customer service to internal and external customers.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.

Minimum Knowledge And Skills Required By The Job

• Education and Experience: High school diploma or equivalent; Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree preferred. Two years’ experience in Accounts Payable.
• Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations: None required.
• Other Skills and Abilities: N/A
• Other Requirements: Travel as needed. Physical Requirements: Sedentary work involving sitting most of the time. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.