Lucas Group is partnered with a healthcare company in East Denver to identify an Accounts Payable Specialist. This is a contract-to-hire position for the right candidate.
Under the supervision of the Accounting Manager, the Accounts Payable Specialist reviews all incoming invoices for accuracy and prepares payment authorizations following the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
Essential Functions and Work Responsibilities
- Reviews daily incoming email in order to receive incoming invoices and statements in a timely manner.
- Processes in Solomon and files documents by vendor name in the document management system electronically.
- Addresses invoices or statements that note a past due balance or are in status of collection immediately and places items on the top of priority lists.
- Reviews invoices and confirms; previous payment of invoice and contract amount agree/disagree.
- Matches purchase order numbers with invoices and verifies purchase order items and contract prices match.
- Present invoices with back-up documentation to Center Directors or Department managers for approval and signatures to pay.
- Performs coding of accounts payable entries from vouchers and enters data into accounting software program.
- Provides Senior & Staff Accountants with monthly accruals for expenses incurred on invoices that have not yet been processed or expenses incurred that have not yet received billing at end of month.
- Corrects entries as directed by the Accounting Manager and performs data entry into Solomon program in order to place invoices on hold or issue payments.
- Ensures that checks are mailed the next business day of computer run date in order to provide timely payment of expenses.
- Maintains accounts payable files and ensures that information is correctly placed and easy to access for auditing reviews.
- Experience with processing multiple invoices, coding experience and working with multiple locations for routing invoices to the correct approval location
- Additional various accounting duties may be assigned
REQUIRED
Education
- High School Diploma or GED
Work Experience and Qualifications
- Minimum of one year of experience in accounts payable and accounting or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience and working knowledge of basic office machines including, ten-key pad on computer keyboard, printers, copiers and scanners.
- Must be able to type at least 25 wpm and use 10-key by touch.
PREFERRED
Education
- Associates degree, Certificate or college coursework in Accounting Principles and/or Bookkeeping or a related field from an accredited college/university
