What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounts Payable Specialist position at Course?
Under direct supervision, this position provides support to the accounting department in performing accounts payable functions. Duties must be performed accurately and efficiently. The primary goal of this role is to control and monitor our organization’s expenses by processing payments, verifying invoices, and performing account reconciliations. To ensure success, this position should exhibit a keen attention to detail, problem-solving skills, sound knowledge of best practices in accounting, and experience in a similar role in optimizing expense control processes.
Job Responsibilities:
- Handle accounts payable for separate entities and vendors
- Analyze workflow processes
- Establish and maintain relationships with new and existing vendors
- Ensure bills are paid in a timely and accurate manner while adhering to departmental procedures
- Process AP check run once a week
- Compare purchase orders, prices, terms of payment and other charges
- Verify and investigate discrepancies, if any, by reconciling vendor accounts and monthly vendor statemen
- Reconcile the accounts payable ledger to ensure that all bills and payments are accounted for and properly posted.
- Understand expense accounts and cost centers for freight, employee expense reports and temp labor.
- Continue to improve the AP process
Requirements:
- Associate's Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field required.
- A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience required.
- Or, a combination of education and experience providing equivalent knowledge.
- Strong computer skills with proficient knowledge of MS Office products; Advanced level experience with Microsoft Excel, including knowledge of pivot tables and VLOOKUP is required.
- Strong organizational skills to work large amount of data and ability to prioritize workload in order to meet tight deadlines in a fast paced and dynamic environment.
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Must be flexible and able to adapt to change.
- Knowledge of basic accounting principles and contract review.
Salary : $60,000 - $65,000
