Senior Accounts Payable Associate

Join a top employer and advance your career. Aplin has partnered with our south Edmonton-based company to hire a Senior Accounts Payable Associate. This award-winning company is expanding their team and looking for a dedicated Account Payable to join them. 

This role is responsible for full cycle accounts payable processing, ensuring the timely and accurate processing of payment documents, domestic/international bank payments, expense reports, PO entry, and providing timely billing and payment information to others within the finance team and much more! 
 
Benefits & Perks:

• Hybrid working environment
• Competitive Salary
• Health & Dental Benefits, including RRSP matching
• Bonus

Responsibilities:

• Working knowledge of a manufacturing setting, familiar with 3-way matching, reconciling receiving reports, and other documentation to supplier invoices/credits.
• Prepare and oversee payments to third parties, whether by cheque, EFT/ACH, or wire payments.
• Process payment documents in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of vendor records.
• Follow up on outstanding items and make necessary adjustments following established A/P policies and procedures.
• Reconcile supplier statements, able to resolve complex reconciliations, and respond to vendor and employee enquires in a knowledgeable and timely manner.
• Assist with month-end closing, meeting close timelines, and preparing accruals, sub-ledger reviews, and open PO reports.
• Post and reconcile payments to General Ledger, and post A/P data to profit/loss reports, balance sheets, and income statements, and prepare and/or produce other required documentation.
• Ensure the strict confidentiality and privacy of the Company’s financial records.
• Other duties as required

Qualifications:

• Post-secondary Degree or diploma in Accounting or Finance.
• 5+ years’ directly related work experience in an Accounts Payable capacity.
• Advanced user of  Microsoft Word and Excel, spreadsheet programs, and accounting applications.
• Experience with an ERP system is an asset.
• Effective attention to detail, with a high degree of accuracy, and ability to work under time pressures and to meet deadlines generally, and, specifically, during the monthly and annual accounting close cycles.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to develop and sustain successful internal and external working relationships.
• Self-directed, with the ability to work successfully both independently and within a team environment.
• Ability to respect and maintain matters of a confidential nature, including information regarding monetary transactions.

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