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Accounts Payable Specialist 16483256
Gaithersburg, MDAccounts Payable Specialist
SUMMARY:
Exciting opportunity to join a well-established and growing organization! This role will provide experience with full cycle accounting, with a focus on accounts payable. The A/P Specialist will be responsible for assisting leadership with managing and tracking payables for the company.
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QUALIFICATIONS:
SUMMARY:
Exciting opportunity to join a well-established and growing organization! This role will provide experience with full cycle accounting, with a focus on accounts payable. The A/P Specialist will be responsible for assisting leadership with managing and tracking payables for the company.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Verify vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions
- Responsible for correspondence with vendors
- Reconcile invoices to purchase orders
- Pay vendors by monitoring discount opportunities; verifying federal id numbers; scheduling and preparing checks; resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation; ensuring credit is received for outstanding memos; purchase order amendments
- Responsible for the accurate coding and timely processing of invoices
- Ensure proper maintenance of the invoice files
- Investigate and resolve all discrepancies associated with the processing of invoices
- Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports and recording entries
- Assist in month-end accrual procedures
- Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential
- Accomplishes accounting and organization mission by completing special projects as needed
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- 2+ years of A/P experience preferably in construction and/or government contracting industry
- Construction based accounting software experience preferred
- Experience in MS Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Excellent communication skills
- Flexible, willing, team player attitude
- Detail oriented
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task