What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounts Payable Clerk position at Benchmark Utility Services?
About Benchmark Utility Services
Benchmark Utility Services is a growing construction and utility infrastructure company operating across multiple states. We move fast, build strong teams, and take care of the people who power our work — in the field and in the office. If you're the kind of person who takes pride in getting things right and keeping things running, you'll fit in well here.
The Role
The Accounts Payable Clerk plays a vital role in managing the company’s financial operations by ensuring timely and accurate processing of vendor invoices, reconciliations, and payments. This position involves maintaining organized financial records, resolving invoice discrepancies, and providing job cost analyses to support management decisions. The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented, proactive in addressing vendor issues, and skilled at optimizing processes to achieve efficiency and accuracy in accounts payable functions.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Benchmark Utility Services is a growing construction and utility infrastructure company operating across multiple states. We move fast, build strong teams, and take care of the people who power our work — in the field and in the office. If you're the kind of person who takes pride in getting things right and keeping things running, you'll fit in well here.
The Role
The Accounts Payable Clerk plays a vital role in managing the company’s financial operations by ensuring timely and accurate processing of vendor invoices, reconciliations, and payments. This position involves maintaining organized financial records, resolving invoice discrepancies, and providing job cost analyses to support management decisions. The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented, proactive in addressing vendor issues, and skilled at optimizing processes to achieve efficiency and accuracy in accounts payable functions.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Records hundreds of vendor invoices weekly into paperless system and process for Project Manager approval while also ensuring correct general ledger coding and job costing accuracy
- Follows up with Project Managers to ensure timely invoice approvals and possible disputes
- Reconciles monthly vendor statements
- Examines and resolves invoice discrepancies and issues
- Preparations and execution of bi-weekly vendor check runs ensuring maximum vendor discounts are earned
- Process vendor invoices, assign general ledger codes, data entry, and reconciliation of invoices
- Maintains accurate and organized financial records and documentation
- Performs other duties, as assigned
- Requires a high school diploma or equivalent (Community college level accounting courses preferred)
- Minimum of two (2) years of relevant accounts payable experience
- Ability to comprehend the payment & discount terms of various AP vendor invoices
- Must have a strong work ethic
- Must be detail oriented
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize work
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal
- Strong organizational skills a must
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to perform assigned duties accurately and meet deadlines in busy office environment
- Prior job experience preferred
- Construction company with job costing experience preferred
- A stable, growing company with real career growth potential
- A team that values doing things the right way — no shortcuts
- Supportive management that invests in the people who show up and deliver
- A role where your accuracy and reliability are genuinely valued