Accounts Payable Specialist

Position Overview
We're looking for an energetic Accounts Payable Specialist to join our Finance/Accounting team. The AP Specialist will be responsible for assigned Accounts Payable functions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. The AP Specialist will ensure that all vendor bills and cash payments are booked and allocated correctly with sufficient evidence in compliance with our internal controls. Ensures work is completed, accurately, and compliant with accounting regulations and company policies and procedures.
Core Roles and Responsibilities
- Perform and understand all accounts payable functions: matching, batching, coding, entering, posting
- Reconcile vendor statements, research and correct discrepancies
- Perform and understand the preparation of payments via check, ACH and wires
- Performs quality check when approving invoices for payment, receive a high volume of invoices, accurately code and process for approval and payment
- Ensure proper authorization and documentation is obtained before invoice processing
- Own procedural documentation and communicate changes as business needs evolve
- Own AP inbox, ensuring timely processing and responses to internal and external inquiries
- Reconciling of outstanding checks, and other unreconciled payment methods
- Own 1099 Reporting
- Participate in process improvement and create/maintain workflow efficiencies
- Ensure company policies, processes, and procedures are clearly defined, updated, and documented
Essential Skills & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of previous accounts payable experience, accounting concept understanding
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- High attention to detail with efficiency
- Ability to develop a cadence of daily workflow to ensure tasks and responsibilities are met
- Resolve issues, serve as a resource in troubleshooting complex matters, and ensure that problems are resolved or escalated accordingly
- Professional ethics with the ability to always respect and maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information
- Ability to manage competing priorities with deadlines, without sacrificing quality
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Requirements as follows:
- Employee must exhibit excellent communication skills.
- Employee must exhibit excellent customer service skills.
- Employee must possess the ability to work independently.
- Employee must exhibit problem solving skills.
- Employee must have exceptional attention to detail.
- Employee must have the ability to speak, read, write and understand English.
- Employee must possess excellent typing skills.
- Employee must maintain proficiency in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Pay:
Based on experience- starting $23/hour
TCI Benefits & Perks
- Weekly Pay
- Employee Discount Programs through National Retail Chains
- Comprehensive Benefits Package (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Employee Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with Company Match
- The Gerry Flynn Scholarship Award Program available to employees and qualified dependents
- Department
- Accounting
- Locations
- Commerce, CA
Commerce, CA
Our Culture
Doing things the right way sometimes means that you give up a short-term win for long-term success. With our sights set on the next generation and financial performance measured over decades, we have the patience and discipline to do the right thing for our team and customers. Our integrity is a core TCI value and is prevalent throughout our business–it’s our promise to every customer.
About TCI Transportation
Since 1978, TCI Transportation has been dedicated to serving our clients in the only way we know how – with integrity, passion, and ingenuity. We’ve spent the past 4 decades expanding our locations from coast to coast and have been aggressively adding new services for our clients to help them grow their businesses as effectively and efficiently as possible. Our story has a long history, and yet we have only just begun.
Accounts Payable Specialist
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