What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounts Payable Specialist position at Giovanni Rana?
Purpose of Position
The Accounts Payable Specialist is responsible for performing day to day accounting transactions to ensure accurate financial and administrative operations. This position is responsible for collaborating with various departments to gather and analyze various financial data to ensure its accuracy.
Key Responsibilities
- Matching and recording vendor invoices
- Recording direct entry invoices. Also responsible for any necessary documentation or analysis needed and getting the necessary approval
- Maintenance of vendor records
- Review and resolution of any vendor issues, including unmatched vouchers, mismatched vouchers, missing invoices, etc.
- Monthly commission calculations, recording and sending back up documents
- Maintenance of vendor relations. Respond to vendors requests
- Processing new vendor applications, collecting all necessary documents
- Maintenance of vendor master file, including updating the ERP system
- Weekly travel between Rana locations, as needed
- Work on special projects assigned by management
- Perform all duties as assigned
Key Skills and Experience
- High School diploma or equivalent required, Associates in Account or business-related field preferred.
- At least 1 year experience in an accounting environment, Accounts Payable preferred
- Demonstrated experience in accounting operations
- Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures
- Strong communication and people skills
- Must be self-motivated, flexible, hands-on, and able to work in a fast paced, multitask environment
- Must have excellent organizational and time management skills
- Overall proficiency with personal computer, including competence in Excel and ERP systems
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About us: Rana is an international Company present in over 60 countries, with a turnover close to $1.5 billion. Founded by Giovanni Rana in 1962, the Company has been led for over 35 years by Gian Luca Rana, CEO and pioneer of the internationalization project that has led the Group to become a leader worldwide in the production and marketing of fresh food products (filled and unfilled pasta, gnocchi, sauces, and ready meals). Rana focuses its investments in the following areas: job creation (our workforce doubled in the last five years) and research and development, with the aim of offering Consumers delicious products made of the highest-quality ingredients. The Rana Group has always made innovation its strength, both in the technological field (with the registration of dozens of product and process patents) and in communication. As a family-owned Company, we are united by strong Values and the aspiration of building a better future for future generations. Ethics and sustainability are the cornerstones of our sixty-two-year history, which have made our business healthy and constantly growing.
Today, Rana has 8 factories (6 in Europe and 2 in the US) and is a large family of 3,500 People. The engines of our continued success will keep being innovation, internationalization, passion and constant search for excellence in everything we do.
Rana is committed to providing a workplace of diversity and inclusion. There shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, evaluating performance, or termination are made fairly. We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates and selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone.
NOTICE TO STAFFING FIRMS, AGENCIES AND EMPLOYMENT VENDORS:
Rana Meal Solutions and its affiliates will not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters without a signed Fee Agreement in place AND before the resume is inputted into our applicant tracking system. Vendor solicitation should be directed to the Human Resource Department directly; as such, firms that circumvent the required compliant process will be barred from submitting candidates. In the absence of a signed fee agreement AND proper resume submission, RMS does not recognize any claim on a candidate by a third party, will consider unsolicited resumes the property of the company and reserves the right to engage and hire those candidates without any financial responsibility to the third-party vendor.
