Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
Accounts payable senior
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Accounts Payable Senior Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective accounts payable senior job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included accounts payable senior job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Coordinate and manage daily activities of staff
Manage using metrics and key reports to ensure overall operation is producing the required output
Manage and review of invoice entry process to ensure proper coding, invoice approval, and timeliness
Field, and ensure resolution of, supplier and employee inquiries regarding invoice approval and invoice payment status
Manage and review the setup of new suppliers including payment terms and banking information
Review Accounts Payable aging reports and payment requests from suppliers and employees to ensure timely approval of invoices and payments
Monitoring / Troubleshooting Multi Currency disbursements
Accounting Quality Reviews
Review and code for multiple entities invoices, wires, VPP payments
Enter approved vouchers into the Accounts Payable module
Accounts Payable Senior Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Accounts Payable Senior
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: UK, A/P, APM, APS, CAPP, PMI, EDI, AD, CPA, LEAN
Education for Accounts Payable Senior
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the accounts payable senior job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Associates, Education, Business/Administration, Economics, English, Accounting/Business, Technical
Skills for Accounts Payable Senior
Desired skills for accounts payable senior include:
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Desired experience for accounts payable senior includes:
Experience with electronic accounts payable payment processing of EDI/ACH/VISA
Research vendor inquiries for past due invoices
Generate reporting from Accounts Payable module
Respond to accounting and audit inquiries
Follow procedure for setting up new vendors and obtaining W-9
Interact with all company personnel, including upper management
Accounts Payable Senior Examples
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Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of accounts payable senior. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for accounts payable senior
- Generate reporting from AP module
- Participate in daily interface with all company personnel including upper management
- Maintain and improve AP and T&E processing cycle times and P-Card maintenance timing
- Daily productivity reports and KPI’s (invoices reconciled, invoices paid)
- Monthly DPO calculations by category to identify trends
- Weekly cash payment forecasting
- Weekly RBNI (Inventory Received but not Invoiced) analysis, aging reports analysis
- Daily early discounts reports
- Weekly financial forecasting (write-offs)
- Managing Help Tickets amongst the team
Qualifications for accounts payable senior
- Managing weekly drop ship tracker and report
- Daily payment run
- Booking ad hoc journal entries
- Collecting statements from high-volume vendors
- Connecting with Supply Chain/Buying counterparts within various categories to identify, investigate, and resolve pain points and credit holds
- Actively involved and collaborate on reporting solution, reconciliations and testing issues/resolutions with colleagues across all of the shared service centers
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Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of accounts payable senior. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for accounts payable senior
- Managing AP mailboxes to ensure timely response and resolution regarding payment inquires, processing issues and other requests
- Assist with the month-end closing
- Executing monthly, quarterly or yearly reporting
- Managing vendor payments by review of payment proposal, investigating and reversing non-successful payments, managing vendor query by handling internal and external queries
- Ensuring all work documentation and work processes are updated and meet with Internal Control Financial Reporting (ICFR), group policies and guidelines, local statutory and legal requirements within agreed service timelines
- Extending coaching and guidance to juniors in daily operation
- Respond to phone and e-mail messages from internal / external parties
- Be a ‘Super user’ within the team, providing expert knowledge and support to peers and analysts through proper knowledge transfer
- Monitor and track overdue aged invoices with issue
- Strong ability to analyze data and reports in an efficient, timely and accurate manner and deliver results to management in a format that consistently considers the following
Qualifications for accounts payable senior
- Entertainment Accounts Payable background (mid-size studio preferred)
- Minimum of A-Levels or equivalent required
- Identify problems and issues, then evaluate options and solutions and communicate those suggestions for improvement to management
- Document critical processes and functions by developing or maintaining the following items
- May be required to participate in the completion of the month end closing process which may include
- Five (5) years' of experience in Accounting or Finance required
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Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of accounts payable senior. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for accounts payable senior
- Review all invoices received for appropriate documentation, work with department heads to obtain approvals prior to payment, and code invoices to proper general ledger accounts in accordance with company policies
- Act as primary contact for vendors, reconcile statements, research billing issues and correct discrepancies
- When necessary, maintain and update process and procedural documentation to reflect changes on a timely basis, looking to continuously improve the process, adapting with the business
- To process non merch invoices
- To process web refunds
- Entry of ‘Pay on behalf of’ and intercompany transactions
- Project/Fixed Asset invoices
- UK Rent Proforma VAT entries and account reconciliation
- Ensure that all rent invoices are scanned and matched to their Property Manager generated counterpart
- To process all other non Property Manager related invoices (Rates etc)
Qualifications for accounts payable senior
- A Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent experience required
- Minimum of 4 to 6 years of experience in Accounts Payable with 2+ years of experience in a manufacturing or medical device environment
- Previous work experience with SAP is a must
- Exhibits meticulous attention to detail and is committed to producing accurate and well organized work
- Ability to use judgment in resolving issues and making recommendations
- Ability to thrive in a changing, fast-paced, growing and dynamic business
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Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for an accounts payable senior. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for accounts payable senior
- Acting as the sole point of contact to receive legal invoices and over-seeing the invoice process end to end
- Prepare, monitor, file and pay state and federal taxes for each association and ensure all quarterly tax estimates are paid timely
- Responsible for reviewing and processing any invoices in the AVID Inbox exception queue to ensure invoices keep moving through for approval
- Maintain the associations' cash balances on a weekly and monthly basis and can back up the AP Reps as needed
- Process and file year end 1099/1096
- Complete daily hand check requests forwarded by accounting manager or AP lead
- Analyzes exceptions, reviewing correspondence for follow-up and routes unresolved items to the appropriate departments
- Managing daily work load, facilitating customer service, providing technical assistance and problem resolution with limited supervision
- Responsible for account reconciliation with vendors
- Responsible for contract review, legal review and review for compliance standards
Qualifications for accounts payable senior
- Able to work independently or in a coordinated group
- Significant SAP experience together with experience of Accounts Payable OCR solution
- Excellent organisational skills together with good problem solving skills and the ability to meet deadlines
- International Accounts Payable dealings is desirable for this role
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common data
- Must display a solid work ethic and utmost integrity
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Accounts Payable Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for an accounts payable senior. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for accounts payable senior
- Customer service attitude and good oral/written communication skills
- Audit expense reports for company compliance
- Responsible for new supplier set up and supplier maintenance
- Investigate and resolve any supplier invoice discrepancies
- Review of proper GL coding of invoices and expenses, documentation, and approvals
- Support with ACH, check, and manual payment runs
- 3-way matching and non-PO reconciliations
- GL Coding
- Prepare and issue 1099 vendor forms
- Work with business units and vendors to transition to electronic payment methods
Qualifications for accounts payable senior
- College degree with a focus in accounting is preferred
- Must have computer skills and dexterity required for data entry and retrieval of required job
- Ability to travel throughout and between facility locations
- Ability to work various hours, such as nights, weekends
- 1099 processing experience and knowledge of IRS regulations is a plus
- Experience in an AS/400 environment is preferred but not required