Accounts Payable Associate - Hybrid

The Accounts Payable ("AP") department is comprised of three main groups: dealer billing, claims, and SG&A expenses. The AP Associate will assist colleagues in all groups with payment processing. The primary tasks include but are not limited to creating and maintaining Excel schedules, preparing financial transactions on bank portals, performing invoice reconciliations, and verifying, classifying, computing, and posting accounts payable data in the accounting system of record.

• Build and maintain Excel-based schedules, reconciliations, reports, and templates
• Manage a large task list, illustrating ability to prioritize deliverables with tight deadlines
• Understand our growing vendor population and request updates to vendor profiles as necessary to improve organization and/or streamline payment processes
• Possess working knowledge of how to read a form W-9 and evaluate whether vendor relationship will require 1099 filings
• Reconcile vendor statements and invoices
• Research, understand, and record transactions in accounting system of record
• Reconcile variances in accounting system's general ledger and AP subledger
• Process and record over 100 SG&A invoices per month
• Import payables data and process payments for 1,000+ dealer billing and claims transactions per month
• Maintain segregation of duties and uphold strong control environment when processing AP transactions
• Consistently maintain highly organized scans/electronic filing for AP record keeping
• Support process improvement and automation initiatives
• Communicate clearly, courteously, and effectively with external and internal stakeholders on behalf of the AP department
• Display initiative and consistently follow-through
• Demonstrate flexibility to multi-task and effectively balance priorities to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Other duties as assigned
• High School Diploma or equivalent, bachelor's degree preferred
• 1 or more years of experience in Accounts Payable, Accounting, or similar finance role preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must have initiative, with the ability to multi-task and effectively balance priorities to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Highly organized
• Proficiency in MS Office required, especially intermediate (or higher) Excel skills (v look up, pivot tables, formulas)