Lead A/P Specialist
Professional Alternatives
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Job ID#: 24520
Accounts Payable Lead – Fully in office
Direct Hire; up to $30
Willowbrook area
**After training can do every other Friday from home
**High volume in a fast-paced setting
Duties:
- Create, edit, and monitor Pos
- Manage open POs; review for accuracy at month end
- Assist during month end closing process and audits
- Manage daily and weekly review, verification, and approval of vendor invoice entries by field personnel for operating entities (attention to account coding and vendor invoices support)
- Scan and enter invoices for payment (account coding and invoice support)
- Manage AP email; route and process incoming invoices and vendor communication
- Prepare reports or provide AP information
- Investigate and resolve vendor invoice discrepancies; partner with field personnel and vendors
- Ensure company utilizes all vendor credits due when making vendor payments
- Set up new vendors in accounting system; verify validity of new vendors added to vendor lists
- Act as backup for AR processing and administrative tasks
Qualifications:
- Associate’s degree preferred; high school diploma required
- 3+ years of AP and PO management experience required; bookkeeping, general accounting, and GL coding knowledge; solid math skills
- Tech savvy; skilled in Word, Excel, PP, SharePoint, Outlook, Adobe, and AP software
- Customer service-centric with a professional presentation, approach, and communication
- Attention to detail and deadlines, thorough, accurate, and efficient; organized, flexible, and
- Establish and maintain stellar vendor relationships
Other Info:
- Ensure discretion and confidentiality
- Well rounded benefits package including 401K with $ for $ match up to 5%
- National company in acquisition/growth mode
- Reports to AP Manager, acts as Lead for one, and plenty of partnership with peers
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