Accounts Payable Accountant

Ready for a career with impact? Goodwill Industries of Southwestern Michigan (Goodwill SWMI) gives you the opportunity to make a difference in your local community while building your professional skills. We reward creativity and innovation while offering competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package. Our team members enjoy a professional, fast-paced, and fulfilling work environment.

Goodwill SWMI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Our nearly 300 dedicated team members help achieve our mission of improving the community by providing employment, education, training, and support services across a six-county territory.

We operate eleven retail stores, a donation center, and several business units that support our mission and financial sustainability. Our core values—Success, Collaboration, People, and Positivity—guide everything we do.

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Position Summary

** This position is in-person only.**

The Accounts Payable Accountant is responsible for administering the organization’s full-cycle accounts payable function while ensuring the accurate, timely, and compliant processing of financial transactions. This role plays a critical part in maintaining the integrity of the general ledger, supporting month-end and year-end close activities, safeguarding internal controls, and ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), organizational policies, and applicable regulatory requirements.

The Accounts Payable Accountant reviews, reconciles, and processes vendor invoices and payment transactions, resolves discrepancies, maintains vendor records, and collaborates with internal departments to ensure expenditures are properly authorized, coded, and recorded. This position also supports financial reporting, cash flow management, audit preparation, and continuous process improvement initiatives that enhance operational efficiency and strengthen financial controls. Success in this role requires advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, exceptional attention to detail, sound accounting knowledge, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy, confidentiality, and customer service.

The ideal candidate demonstrates professionalism, accountability, and a commitment to building strong relationships with vendors and internal stakeholders while contributing to the overall effectiveness of the Finance and Accounting team.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the full-cycle accounts payable process, ensuring accurate and timely processing of
  invoices, expense reports, and vendor payments.
• Review, verify, and reconcile invoices against purchase orders, contracts, and receiving
  documentation to ensure compliance with organizational policies.
• Maintain vendor master records, including onboarding new vendors, updating payment
  information, and ensuring compliance with IRS W-9 and 1099 reporting requirements.
• Perform monthly accounts payable reconciliations, resolve discrepancies, and support month-end
  and year-end financial close activities.
• Prepare and process electronic payments, ACH transactions, wire transfers, and check runs
  while maintaining strong internal controls.
• Monitor accounts payable aging reports, prioritize payment schedules, and maintain positive
  vendor relationships through timely issue resolution.
• Collaborate with department managers to ensure expenditures are coded accurately to the
  appropriate general ledger accounts, cost centers, grants, or projects.
• Assist with annual audits by preparing schedules, supporting documentation, and responding
  to auditor requests related to accounts payable transactions.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, organizational policies, and nonprofit grant funding
  requirements, maintaining a high level of financial accuracy and accountability.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounts payable workflows, strengthen internal controls, and
  increase process efficiency through automation and best practices.
• Generate and analyze accounts payable reports to support cash flow management, budgeting,
  and financial decision-making.
• Partner with the…