Accounts Payable Clerk

Job Summary:

As an Accounts Payable Clerk, you will be responsible for managing the company's financial obligations by processing and recording invoices, verifying purchase orders, reconciling vendor statements, and providing outstanding customer service to clients. The following is a comprehensive job description for an accounts payable clerk:

The essential job duties and responsibilities include the following:

• Reconciling processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances
• Charging expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports, obtaining management approval and recording entries
• Paying vendors by monitoring discount opportunities, verifying federal ID numbers, scheduling and preparing checks, resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation, ensuring credit is received for outstanding credit memos, requesting purchase order amendments
• Paying employees by receiving and verifying expense reports and requests for advances, preparing checks
• Maintaining accounting ledgers by verifying, coding, and posting account transactions
• Verifying vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions
• Maintaining historical records by filing documents
• Reporting sales taxes by calculating requirements on invoices paid
• Protecting organization's value by keeping information confidential
• Updating job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities
• Accomplishing accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed
• Perform other duties as assigned by management