AP Specialist
Shield AI
What you'll do:
- Works within the company’s accounting system and collaborates with vendors and internal contacts to resolve discrepancies between vendor invoices and company purchase orders.
- Manages workload to ensure a high rate of timely vendor payments.
- Resolves open items promptly.
- Participates in the execution of the weekly payment process.
- Performs moderately complex general accounting support tasks within the accounts payable environment.
- Assists in researching and analyzing open balances and, under the direction of senior AP team members, enters correcting entries.
- Summarizes accounting data from detailed records.
- Categorizes and calculates accounting information for reporting and audit purposes.
- Compiles data and prepares a variety of routine and ad hoc reports.
- Responds to written and verbal inquiries from internal and external stakeholders.
- Performs other duties as assigned or required.
Required Qualifications
- Degree in Accounting or a related field.
- Experience with three-way matching.
- Proficient in Excel, with intermediate or higher skills (e.g., VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, PivotTables) and experience in data analysis.
- Experience with large-scale Procure-to-Pay (P2P). Experience with Coupa and Deltek Costpoint is preferred.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Strong communication, documentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Able to quickly grasp new concepts, organize and coordinate work phases, and identify appropriate solutions at the task level or, with guidance, at the project level.
- Capable of working independently and collaboratively with professional staff.