Accounts Payable Specialist

We are seeking a detail-oriented and motivated Accounts Payable Specialist to manage our full-cycle accounts payable processes within our manufacturing operations. This role demands a strong foundation in core accounting fundamentals, including a solid grasp of debits, credits, and general ledger impacts. You will ensure financial accuracy through rigorous AP-to-GL reconciliations, vendor statement reviews, and proactive discrepancy resolution. Additionally, you will support our operational efficiency by participating in routine physical inventory counts.

The ideal candidate balances strong analytical accounting skills with a collaborative mindset to bridge the gap between finance and shop floor inventory.

• Three-Way Matching: Review, code, and reconcile high-volume invoices against purchase orders and warehouse receiving logs.
• Accounting Fundamentals: Apply a strong understanding of debits, credits, and accruals to ensure expenses are coded correctly to the General Ledger (GL).
• Reconciliations: Perform routine reconciliations of vendor statements and ensure the sub-ledger aligns accurately with the accounts payable GL account.
• Discrepancy Research & Resolution: Investigate, track, and resolve complex billing variances, price discrepancies, and quantity mismatches by researching transaction histories.
• Inventory & Audit Support: Physically participate in routine cycle counts and comprehensive physical inventory audits on the production floor.
• Payment Execution: Prepare and execute weekly payment runs via ACH, wire transfers, and checks.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with procurement, operations, and warehouse teams to optimize the receiving-to-payment cycle and manage supplier relations.

• Education: Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business preferred.
• Experience: 2+ years of dedicated accounts payable or general accounting experience.
• Core Accounting
  
  Skills:
  
  Strong foundational knowledge of general accounting principles, particularly debits/credits, GL account structures, and financial reconciliations.
• Analytical
  
  Skills:
  
  Proven ability to independently research ledger anomalies, audit vendor statements, and systematically resolve discrepancies.
• ERP Software: Proficiency with automated ERP systems (experience with SYSPRO is a major plus, but not required).
• Industry Context: Previous experience in a manufacturing, production, or distribution environment is preferred, but training will be provided.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Intermediate Microsoft Excel capabilities (data entry, VLOOKUPs, pivot tables).
• Physical Requirements: Ability to safely navigate a manufacturing facility, stand for extended periods, and lift up to 25 lbs during physical inventory counts.

We believe diversity and inclusion among our teammates are essential to our success. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees while building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an equal opportunity employer. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. Cel Link participates in the E-Verify program in specific locations as required by law.

Cel Link was founded in 2012 and entered volume production in 2018. Cel Link provides electrical systems to the world's leading automotive OEMs & EV manufacturers, data center developers, and stationary power companies. The company has raised approximately $315M in funding through private investment and multiple grants from the US Department of Energy. Cel Link’s investors include 3M, Atreides, BMW, Borg Warner, Bosch, D1 Capital, Fidelity, Fontinalis Partners, Ford, Franklin Templeton, Lear, Park West, SK Telecom, Standard Investments, T.

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