What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant- Payables position at American Industrial Transport Inc.?
Job Summary
This position within our corporate accounting and shared services team will support the business by working with the accounts payable team to produce positive relationships between our business units and vendors. Keys for success in this position include strong organization and communication skills, attention to detail, and harnessing the power of incremental improvement. The right candidate will be service oriented and enjoy overcoming challenges.
Job Requirements
- Monitor and prioritize workflows and correspondence to ensure vendor needs are addressed promptly.
- This role includes data entry and transactional work. Transactional work includes:
- Onboarding and maintenance of vendors via master data change requests
- Gathering and processing of invoice and/or credit documents
- Researching and responding to vendor inquiries. Resolving discrepancies discovered during vendor statement review.
- Assist in resolution of operations and vendor questions.
- Work closely with internal partners to understand the impact payable coding has on accuracy and completeness of financial results.
- Continually develop and train on software to optimize efficiency, accuracy, and reporting. Work with IT as necessary to improve software configuration to be proactive in prevention and detection of errors and/or suspicious transactions.
- Maintain process documentation, policies, and procedures related to accounts payable.
- Perform month-end accounts payable close processes.
- Perform 1099 reporting process at year-end.
- Perform other assignments as required.
Experience
- Previous accounts payable experience
- Good organizational and analytical skills
- SAP and OpenText experience are a plus
Education
- Associate degree in business-related field preferred, or commensurate experience
- 1 year or more experience in Microsoft Excel, including lookup functions and pivot tables
This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory, or environmental demands may be referenced to communicate the way this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, AITX will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.
