Temporary Senior Accounts Payable Specialist
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This position is only open to candidates residing in California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, & Washington.TemporarySenior
Salary40 - 43 USD per hour
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5–7+ years of progressive accounts payable or related accounting experience
- Required Skills
- Microsoft Office
Requirements
- Have 5–7+ years of progressive accounts payable or related accounting experience, including independent ownership of AP workflows.
- Understand general ledger coding, accruals, reconciliations, internal controls, and how AP activity affects financial reporting and cash requirements.
- Analyze data, recognize patterns, investigate exceptions, and solve unfamiliar problems independently.
- Demonstrate advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and analysis of large transaction lists.
- Have proficiency with Microsoft Office.
- Have hands-on experience with ERP and expense systems.
- Concur and Carta AP experience are desirable.
- Demonstrate organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize competing deadlines.
- Use sound judgment and initiative, including knowing when to decide independently and when to escalate control, compliance, or financial risks.
Responsibilities
- Manage daily AP priorities across invoice intake, coding, approval follow-up, exception resolution, and payment preparation.
- Process and review invoices and Concur expense reports for accuracy, coding, documentation, approvals, and policy compliance.
- Investigate invoice discrepancies, duplicate payments, vendor disputes, and missing information; identify causes and recommend solutions.
- Review AP aging and open items, investigate unusual or stale balances, and support reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close.
- Prepare and initiate domestic and international wire and ACH payment runs in accordance with approval, segregation-of-duties, and security controls.
- Coordinate vendor onboarding, maintain vendor master data, review W-9/W-8 documentation, respond to vendor inquiries, and support annual 1099 reporting.
- Resolve routine operational issues for employees, vendors, and Finance colleagues, and escalate significant risks, exceptions, and trends.
- Use ERP reports and Excel to identify errors and recurring issues and recommend workflow improvements using system functionality, automation, and approved AI tools.
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