Accounts Payable - AP - Accounting

## Job Summary: The Accounts Payable Clerk will be responsible for managing the monthly accounts payable cycle for several of our facilities from invoice receipt through check processing. ## Duties/Responsibilities: - Enters invoices into accounting system and manages payables, including managing employee reimbursements, check requests and petty cash. - Maintains vendor files, including filing of all paid invoices and verifying outstanding vendor statements and completing vendor credit applications. - Receives and verifies expense reports; reconciles expense and other financial reports with account balances and other office records. - Facilitates payment of vendors, which may include verification of federal ID numbers, reviewing purchase orders, and resolving discrepancies. - Ensures outstanding obligations are credited upon payment, identifies discount opportunities, and issues purchase order amendments or stop-payment orders as needed. - Assists with accounting records and ledgers by reconciling monthly statements and transactions. - Files Sales & Use tax reports monthly. - Calculates and reports sales tax based on paid invoices. - Track non-budgeted and capitalized purchases. - Processes year-end 1099’s and other statements for vendors and government reporting. Verifies totals to invoices paid, prints forms, mails and files with government IRS statements. - Other related duties as assigned. ## Required Skills/Abilities: - Proficient with a 10-key pad. - Ability to work as a team player, self-sufficient, effective communication skills. - Professionalism, accuracy, dependability, and confidentiality are essential. - Position requires close attention to detail, good organization skills, must be able to multi-task and problem solve. - Must be able to learn accounting software systems. ## Education and Experience: - High school diploma required; Business or Accounting degree preferred. - Associate Accounting Degree and/or 1 year of experience in Accounts Payable.