Job Summary:

The Accounts Payable Specialist is responsible for monitoring the outflow of capital for the company, and assisting in various accounting and bookkeeping functions.

About JFCS Pittsburgh

In today’s world, it is important that your life’s work brings you value and purpose. By joining the team at JFCS, you will experience hands-on opportunities that directly help people in the Greater Pittsburgh region through life’s changes and challenges. 

Proudly voted by JFCS employees as one of Pittsburgh’s best places to work for 10 years, our care and commitment to our employees and our clients is our top priority. We are looking for new employees who share our commitment to providing critical, high quality services to the community. 

Benefits:

• Collaborative work environment and diverse staff
• 37.5 hours work week with flexible scheduling to support work-life balance
• Hybrid work model (part of the week in office, part remote)
• Sick Time = 12 days a year
• Vacation Time = starts at 2 weeks the first year and then increases with longevity up to 4 weeks total
• Additional paid time off for all employees = most federal holidays, 3-5 floating holidays (to be used at employee’s discretion), and a number of Jewish holidays
• Comprehensive health insurance - medical, dental and vision
• Short and long term disability, life insurance and a 401k package for which JFCS contributes 4% of salary after the first year of service
• Annual longevity bonuses after the first year of service

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Oversees accounts payable process, including receiving and verifying expense reports; reconciling expense and other financial reports with account balances
• Facilitates payment of vendors, reviewing purchase orders and invoices
• Communicates with internal and external partners to ensure discrepancy resolution
• Tracks and reconciles internal program budgets monthly with outgoing expenses
• Assists with internal and external audits as needed
• Sets up new vendors into the accounting database
• Codes and records general ledger entries for outgoing expenses, payables and prepaid expenses. 
• Files and maintains internal vendor records
• Assists in the preparation of external agency billings by compiling financial data
• Record weekly database entries for various accounting transactions
• Other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities: 

A successful candidate must be the following:

• Familiar with expense coding and accounting database organization
• Reliable and extremely trustworthy
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or related programs, experience with accounting database systems
• Able to learn other accounting software systems
• Excellent with organization and attention to detail
• Able to maintain confidential and meticulous records

• Comfortable working independently and as part of a team
• Excellent with interpersonal, oral and written communication 

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree required; Business or Accounting degree preferred
• Accounts Payable or bookkeeping experience preferred

Physical Requirements: 

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.