Accounts Payable Specialist

Location: North Charleston

Description We are looking for an Accounts Payable Specialist to join a team in North Charleston, South Carolina on a contract basis with the potential for a permanent position. This role is well suited for someone who thrives in a fast-paced accounting environment and can manage a large volume of transactions with accuracy and consistency. The position will support core payables operations while also contributing to reconciliations, journal entry preparation, and select purchasing-related tasks.

Responsibilities:

- Process a high volume of vendor invoices while ensuring accurate coding, approvals, and timely payment.

- Reconcile bank activity regularly and investigate discrepancies to maintain accurate financial records.

- Prepare and post journal entries that support month-end and day-to-day accounting operations.

- Assist with intercompany transactions and help keep balances properly recorded across related entities.

- Coordinate ACH payments and check runs in accordance with established payment schedules.

- Provide support for light purchasing activities, including basic procurement-related administrative tasks.

- Use Great Plains and Microsoft Excel to maintain records, track transactions, and generate accounting support documentation.

- Contribute to process-related updates and operational changes as needed within the accounts payable function. Requirements - Demonstrated experience in accounts payable, including invoice processing in a high-volume environment.

- Strong understanding of invoice coding, account coding, and standard payment workflows.

- Hands-on experience with bank reconciliations and journal entry preparation.

- Familiarity with ACH transactions, check runs, and vendor payment processing.

- Working knowledge of intercompany accounting and related transaction handling.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft Excel.

- Ability to manage details effectively, stay organized, and meet deadlines in a fast-moving setting.

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