Accounts Payable Specialist (Spanish Speaking)

The Accounts Payable Specialist is responsible for managing the full cycle of accounts payable activities and will play a key role in ensuring timely and accurate reporting and improving the monthly close process. Your role will also include helping develop and enhance accounting policies, procedures, reporting controls and financial compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Accounts Payable process, including payment disbursement, AP Inquires and Aging.

• Ensure timely payment while managing competing priorities and adhering to deadlines.

• Resolving vendor issues, including handling vendor calls, emails, or written correspondence regarding past due invoices.

• Review and approve employees’ travel expense reimbursement.

• Effectively communicate with employees on any expense report issues

• Overall GAAP accounting knowledge. Record AP-related journal entries

• Balance Sheet reconciliations

• Review, analyze and respond to internal and external inquiries to resolve vendor payment and accounting issues.

• Cultivate cross-team collaboration to continually automate and improve process efficiencies.

Education:

Bachelor’s OR associate degree OR relevant previous experience in accounting, AP, finance with 3-5 Yrs of experience. 

Skills & Requirements:

• Experience with A/P Process

• Bilingual in Spanish and English required

• Well versed with MS Excel, Word

• Detailed oriented ability to meet deadlines, multi‐task efficiently

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)

• Familiarity with NetSuite, Quadient, and Concur is a plus