Accounts Payable Specialist

Location:

Scottsdale AZ - HYBRID - 2-3 days per week

Duration: 6 month contract to hire - will convert

• 2+ years Accounts Payable experience
• 1+ years SAP experience
• Strong ability to process medium to high volume of invoices
• Invoice Workflow experience
• Strong MS Office, especially Excel
• Sharp personality with drive to grow/improve processes
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• High school diploma or GED

• Degree is a big plus
• Associates in Accounting or similar
• Experience working in a SOX Compliant environment
• Past experience with Coupa (or similar Business Spend Platform)
• Energy industry experience

An employer is looking for an AP Associate to join their team here in Scottsdale. The Accounts Payable Associate is responsible for processing invoices, employee expense reports and other payment requests in Coupa and SAP in accordance with standard processes and controls. The primary objective is to collaborate with internal and external customers to obtain missing information and resolve issues that are preventing invoices and other payment requests from being processed for payment.

• Analyze and process invoices in a timely manner; ensure appropriate approval authority, general ledger coding, and compliance with policies and procedures.
• Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues.
• Review expense reports in accordance policies.
• Process transactions in the accounts payable system including employee expenses, services, inventories, benefits, payroll, or other types of expenditures.
• Facilitate vendor set-up and revisions by coordinating with Procurement Department as necessary.
• Partner with Accounting to resolve reconciliation of banking items and researching invoices.
• Resolve vendor and employee payment issues.
• Support bank portal operations for direct payments as needed
• Review vendor statements to ensure that payments and open payables are recorded.
• Prepare reports, accruals and perform research and participate in ad hoc projects as needed.
• Comply with Sarbanes Oxley Sec. 404 legislation as it relates to the work processes for Financial Reporting and Corporate Accounting department.