What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounts Payable Specialist position at Farmer Focus?
Who We Are and What We Do
Farmer Focus’s mission is to promote and protect generational family farms by shifting farm-level decision-making and chicken ownership back to farmers and empowering them to farm the way they know is best. We are committed to consistently producing 100% organic and humanely raised chicken that is better for people, the planet, and animals. Our culture is rooted in servant leadership, and we live by our Farmer Focus CARES values: Community, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, and Stewardship.
Duties and Responsibilities
The AP specialist’s main responsibility will be to perform daily entry of invoices into Canopy. Additional duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Accounts Payable Essential Functions Include:
The AP specialist’s main responsibility will be to perform daily entry of invoices into Canopy. Additional duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Accounts Payable Essential Functions Include:
- Monitor accounts payable mailbox and process invoices received
- Post invoices to accounts payable subledger
- Prepare accounts payable batches to post to general ledger
- Ensure purchase orders have been marked as received prior to recording invoices
- Balance vendor statements
- Follow up on past due accounts and returned checks
- Other duties may be assigned. Overtime may be required subject to changes of business necessity.
What You Bring to the Role
- Previous experience in accounting, finance, or other related fields
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Deadline and detail-oriented
- Self-starter to work independently and with a team
- High School Diploma/GED required
- 3-5 years of AP experience
Other Physical Requirements
- Must possess full hand and finger grasping for keyboard data entry and calculator with both hands together and apart
- Vision Near or corrected
Work Requirements and Environment & Reasonable Accommodations Statement
Work conducted primarily in an office environment but may be required to access the production environment.
Must be able to tolerate the varying heat, wet, and chill of the plant. Hearing and eye-protective equipment required in the production area. Required to wear hair and beard nets in the production area.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Farmer Focus is committed to the principles of equal employment and to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations. It is our intent to maintain a work environment that is inclusive and equitable, free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation based upon an individual's age, race (including traits historically associated with race, which includes hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation (including transgender status, gender identity, or expression), pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), military status (including status as a uniformed servicemember, a veteran, or dependent of a servicemember), or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. Farmer Focus is dedicated to the fulfillment of this policy regarding all aspects of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, placement, transfer, training, promotion, rates of pay and other compensation, termination, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.
