Accounts Payable Technician

Northeastern Junior College, one of 13 member-colleges of the Colorado Community College System, lies in the rural northeastern Colorado town of Sterling, located 128 miles northeast of Denver. Northeastern delivers a big-school experience at a small-school price. The numbers add up: 900 full-time students from around the world, more than 2,000 part-time students, more than 80 programs of study, and residence halls for more than 575 students.

The community of approximately 12,000 residents enjoys easy access to Denver, the Rocky Mountains and the western-agricultural lifestyle.

You will admire the friendly culture of Northeastern Junior College and be inspired by our team environment and dedicated employees. Additionally, we offer:

• Generous annual and sick leave benefits; our employees stay because of the work/life balance they are able to obtain here.
• Attractive health, dental, vision, life, and flexible savings options; we will also help you build your retirement savings via our defined benefit or defined contribution plans.
• An opportunity to become a lifelong-learner and enjoy considerable savings for the college education of your dependents through our tuition reimbursement program.

Anticipated work hours for this position will be Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Flexibility may be required to meet the needs of the department.

This full-time position is located in Financial Services at Northeastern Junior College.

• Generate warrants to vendors for payment of invoices related to purchase orders and direct purchases
• Generate warrants to college staff for expense reimbursements

• Gather, analyze, and verify invoices and purchasing documents for completeness and accuracy
• Verify adherence to purchasing and procurement rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Confirm appropriate signature authority authorizations on completed documents
• Investigate differences between the college and its vendors
• Report all discrepancies to the supervisor for resolution

• Review individual procurement card statements for appropriate documentation
• Ensure complete set of invoices and receipts are included
• Verify purchases are made on a tax-exempt basis
• Confirm appropriate supervisory approval and sign-off
• Investigate discrepancies and work with employees to resolve issues within established parameters
• Ensure timely reimbursement of any sales tax charged

• Maintain required accounting records for all accounts payable transactions
• Process necessary document imaging

• Confirm all travel card purchases are correctly included in travel reimbursement vouchers
• Report any issues to the supervisor for resolution

Residents and non-residents of Colorado may apply and be hired into this position as the work will be performed primarily at a location that is within 30 miles of the state border.

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Accounting Technician II

Two (2) years of technical accounting experience which must include accounts payable experience. The technical accounting experience must have been performed as a main function of the job. Daily interaction with students, faculty and staff require that this position have excellent interpersonal, communication and organization skills. Candidate must have experience providing excellent customer service and interfacing with a variety of people from many levels within the organization and community.

Effective verbal and written communication skills are necessary for success in this position. In order to be considered for this position, your relevant experience must be documented on your application. Part time experience will be pro-rated.

Or

Two years (60 semester credits) of college, university or non-correspondence business school from an accredited institution in Accounting or Finance may substitute for the technical accounting experience as listed above but not for the accounts payable experience. You must submit a copy of your transcripts with your application in order to be considered.

Please provide a detailed description on your application of your relevant work experience and document examples of your work in relation to the following: working knowledge of Banner or similar system.…