Accounts Payable Associate

Job Details

Level: Experienced

Job Location: Northern Virginia Chantilly - Chantilly, VA

Position Type: Full Time

Education Level: 2 Year Degree

Salary Range: Undisclosed

Job Category: Accounting

Description

JOB SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for responsible for processing and maintaining accounts payable records, reconciling vendor statements, and ensuring timely and accurate payments to vendors.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Process accounts payable invoices and ensure timely and accurate payments to vendors

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date accounts payable records in accordance with accounting standards.

• Manage the accounts payable email inbox and respond to inquiries promptly and professionally

• Verifying work orders and follow up to resolve disputes and errors

• Communicating with vendors and project managers with resolving disputes and reconciling accounts

• Support department with special projects

• All other duties as assigned

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• High school diploma required and 2-4 years of experience in accounting

• Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in accounts payable

• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

• Strong planning and judgment skills with an ability to work independently

• Job costing with construction background preferred, but not required

• Sage accounting software knowledge preferred, but not required

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Must possess the ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Demonstrate the ability to write routine reports, correspondence and the ability to speak effectively to customers and/or employees of an organization.

REASONING ABILITY:

This person should possess the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. They should also have the ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form in the English language.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

This position will be based in a typical office environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. visits to residential construction work sites.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

None