Accounts Payable Specialist
Job Description
Primary Functions:
- Accounts Payable
Minimum Qualifications:
- Associate in business, Accounting or Finance, required
- Microsoft Word and Excel proficiency
- High level of attention to detail
- Strong customer service skills
- Ability to work successfully with students, faculty, staff.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with accounting and accounts payable software
- Experience with Great Plains accounting software
- Experience with CAMS Enterprise software
Job Specific Competencies:
- Understanding of charts of accounts and account structures, in general
- Understanding the purchase to pay process
Essential Job Functions:
Job functions include, but are not limited to:
- Issue purchase orders and financial request vouchers
- Credit Card/Expense Report Administration
- Process invoices for payment
- Review all invoices for proper documentation and approval prior to entering in Great Plains for payment
- Assign department to be charged
- Resolve differences in invoices
- Apply pending credit memos
- Monitor discount opportunities
- Issue checks to vendors, students and employees
- Create ACH payments
- Print and distribute checks as required
- Match invoices to check requisitions and file
- Issue reimbursement/travel checks to employees
- Post student direct deposit refunds to Great Plains
- Send wire transfers and ACH payments to vendors
- Reconcile processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances
- Review, reconcile and process college credit card bills
- Enter non-student payments into Great Plains
- Enter student payments in Cams and Great Plains for Student Account Office when needed
- Prepare Daily Deposits for Bank
- Online banking
- Send daily check deposits through Key Capture
- Transfer check run file to Key Bank Positive Pay
- Review daily check issues in Positive Pay make any decisions regarding discrepancies reported
- Issue stop payments
- Verify cashed checks
- Bank Transfers
- Prepare 1099 forms for qualifying vendors and mail by IRS deadlines
- Ensure all vendors are setup correctly for 1099 reporting
- Answer all vendor inquires
- Reconcile monthly vendor statements, research and make corrections of discrepancies
- Maintain vendor files and documentation, accounts payable reports and spreadsheets
- Prepare past fiscal year files for storage
- Assist Associate Vice President for Finance
- Prepare college "building hours" calendar for website
- Manage Amazon user accounts
- Other duties as assigned to meet the mission of the college
- Perform these duties in accordance with regulations set forth by auditors and college accounting procedures
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