Accounts Payable - Creative Financial Staffing

Accounts Payable Specialist – Well established, growing firm in Chicagoland area

About the Company and Opportunity

• The Accounts Payable Clerk is responsible for the processing and payment of invoices and contract payments, generating reports and other accounting functions as needed to ensure accurate, timely payments and financial reporting.
• Our client is a growing tech company
• The culture is highly collaborative and they look for creative thinkers who strive to find efficiencies and process improvement
• Lots of examples of promotion
• Flexibility to work from home
• Good work life balance
• Excellent benefits

Overview of the role:

• Reviews invoices, makes copies of invoices and sends to appropriate departments for approval.
• Reviews all check requests, date-stamps, and invoices.
• Matches invoices and determines account coding.
• Inputs all vendor invoices in system.
• Balances edits and approves batch; after approval, posts to AP system.
• Reviews aging and determines invoices to be paid.
• Generates checks in accordance with issuing guidelines.
• Records manual checks on a daily basis.
• Prepares check voucher and submit for approvals.
• Addresses employee and vendor inquiries regarding payments.
• Reconciles vendor accounts.
• Reviews and processes employee expense reports in accordance with company reimbursement and policies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A/P experience of 1+ years
• 3 way match required