Title: Senior Accounts Payable Specialist
Status: Full-Time / Non- Exempt
Working side by side with our CFO, Controller, and CEO to make a positive difference in the accounting and finance function. Collaborating with all departments, this individual will be responsible for providing support to the period-end accounting, financial reporting, payroll, compliance, and risk management.
What You'll Be Doing
•Obtain new vendor information for input and maintain current information on established vendors.
•Completes payments and controls expenses by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices.
•Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
•Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports, recording entries.
•Obtains proper approvals from management before issuing payment.
•Pays vendors by monitoring discount opportunities; verifying federal id numbers; scheduling and preparing checks; resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation; insuring credit is received for outstanding memos: purchase order amendments.
•Pays employees by receiving and verifying expense reports and requests for advances, preparing checks.
•Prepares annual 1099 forms.
•Maintains accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.
•Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements.
•Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.
•Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.
•Accomplishes accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
What a Successful Senior Accounts Payable Specialist Brings to the Table
•Proficient in Excel, Word, Power Point and Outlook.
•Experience with accounting software packages including report writing and GL maintenance is a plus.
•Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
•Excellent customer service and overall understanding of accounting systems.
•Accurate data entry and strong attention to detail are required.
•A results-oriented professional style and the ability to effectively multitask and work within deadlines.
•Confidentiality: Regularly exposed to and participates in highly confidential meetings dealing with proprietary information and sensitive situations.
•U.S citizenship and the ability to pass a background investigation.
Credentials
•Associates Degree in Accounting or Finance (Preferred).
•Two to three years of related accounting experience.
•Restaurant industry accounting experience (Preferred).
What We Offer
•Room for Growth and Development.
•Full Array of Benefits- from healthcare to dental, vision, STD, LTD, and many more!
•Holiday Pay.
•Paid Time Off.