Accounts Payable Specialist Position Available In Rutherford, Tennessee

Accounts Payable Specialist JPW Industries – 3.2

La Vergne, TN Job Details Full-time Estimated:

$45.3K – $54K a year 3 days ago Benefits Flexible schedule Qualifications Accounts payable Mid-level Analysis skills Bachelor’s degree Accounting Associate’s degree Communication skills Full Job Description The Accounts Payable Specialist holds an important ownership role within the accounting function, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency across a high volume of transactions. Beyond their core duties, this individual is also a key contributor to the company’s financial transformation projects, bringing experience and innovative thinking to the team. This role demands a forward-thinking professional with a growth mindset, looking to create personal career value for themselves and to create value for the company.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Invoice Management:

Actively engage in the review, validation, and processing of complex or judgmental invoices. Address and problem-solve issues within the procure-to-pay cycle, ensure correct coding of invoices, and ensure compliance with company policies. Initiates a high degree of collaboration with other team members in Accounting, FP&A, Purchasing, and other areas of the organization.

Vendor Relationship and Process Management:

Serve as a central liaison for vendor interactions, including maintaining accurate vendor master data, resolving invoice and payment disputes, and onboarding new vendors.

Account Reconciliation:

Vendor Reconciliation:

Regularly reconcile vendor sub-ledger accounts (accounts payable) with vendor statements. This includes ensuring all invoices, credit memos, and payments are correctly reflected in the vendor accounts in SAP and match vendor statements. Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt (GR/IR)

Reconciliation:

Manage the reconciliation of the GR/IR account. Identify and resolve discrepancies between goods receipts and invoice receipts, coordinating with the procurement and warehousing teams as necessary.

Advance Payments:

For vendors where advance payments are made, ensure these are tracked and offset correctly against the appropriate invoices once they are received.

Intercompany Reconciliation:

If there are intercompany transactions, ensure that the payable amounts in the company’s books match the receivable amounts in the counterparty’s books.

Concur Expense Management:

Serves as a primary resource for employee questions about Concur expense reports and assists with Concur onboarding for new JPW hires. Reviews expense coding, performs weekly postings from Concur to ADP, and works with Concur technical support to resolve any system issues or discrepancies.

Monthly Sales Tax:

Provides monthly sales data to KPMG and assists with the monthly remittance of sales tax payments to each state.

Financial Transformation Projects:

Actively participate in projects aimed at modernizing and enhancing the Company’s procure-to-pay function. Bring innovative solutions to complex challenges Additional responsibilities and projects as may be assigned relevant to the position

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES

Associate degree or bachelor’s degree, recommended or minimum 5 years’ experience in accounts payable and general accounting, preferably with experience in financial transformation projects

EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills Highly proficient with enterprise-level ERP systems (e.g., SAP), characterized by their intricate, integrated functionalities and broad scope. SAP expertise is strongly preferred. Ability to manage a diversified workload, prioritize tasks Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal Growth mindset, with a proactive attitude towards personal and professional development Demonstrated adaptability to a challenging and developing environment, and willingness to take on new responsibilities as the business evolves

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods; use hands to handle or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Substantial time is spent working on a computer and may be performed primarily in an office setting . Working extended and flexible hours may be requested occasionally.