AP Team Lead

Job description

Summary of Responsibilities

The Primary responsibilities of the Accounts Payable Coordinator include managing the A/P invoice flow through the office from incoming mail, inputting invoices into A/P, selecting invoices currently due for payment, and resolving vendor issues. Duties also include ensuring W-9s are obtained for all vendors, managing the year-end 1099 process, and monitoring concur system for employee expense approvals. This position requires a large degree of attention to detail, as we have a large amount of vendors throughout US, Canada and Mexico.

Essential Job Functions

- Manage the process of the accounts payable invoices by AP analysts and interns

- Optimize the account payable function by proposing and implementing new processes

- Distribute to project managers or appropriate corporate personnel for approval

- Maintain the vendor master file, ensuring all credentials are up-to-date, ensuring all new vendors submit a W-9, so that correct Tax ID and addresses and phone numbers for vendors are obtained

- Assist the project managers with questions about invoices and payments on subs and suppliers on their jobs

- Generate an open A/P report for all outstanding invoices to be reviewed by assistance controller to ensure payments are being processed timely.

- Create payments in the bank portals and submit for approval

- On a bi-weekly basis, review the approved employee expense reimbursements from Concur and enter in SAP for payment

- Resolve Concur admin tasks for USA and Canada, provide support to employee questions

- Download invoices from portal to ensure completeness

- Check for proper sales tax charges (Master different tax requirements throughout US, Canada and Mexico)

- Check for proper approval of returned invoices

- Enter "on demand/daily/weekly" invoices, including employee expense reimbursements from concur, into SAP

- Review open A/P to propose what should be paid on the by-weekly payment batch and approve by assistant controller

- Set up monthly and quarterly recurring invoice payments in payment file for US, Canada and Mexico

- Field phone calls from subcontractors and vendors about payments

Position Requirements

- Critical thinking, problem solving, and judgment and decision making abilities.

- Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently and be self-driven

- Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure

- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills

- Excellent computer skills in a Microsoft Windows environment

- Proven leadership skills and time management

Qualifications and Experience

- Associate degree in Finance/Accounting/Business administration

- 3 to 5 years’ experience in accounts payable

- Proven capabilities in multi-tasking, problem-solving, and prioritizing workloads

- A minimum of 1 year experience as team management

- Ability to do process optimization

Language

- English: Fluent, spoken and written

- Spanish