Accounts Payable/Receivable Department
Provides financial, administrative, and clerical support by managing payments and controlling expenses through the receipt, processing, verification, and reconciliation of invoices, ensuring all tasks are completed accurately, efficiently, and in line with established policies and procedures.
Essential duties and responsibilities
- Match purchase orders to invoices and enter invoices into computer.
- Reconcile processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
- Charge expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports and recording entries.
- Pay vendors by monitoring discount opportunities, verifying federal id numbers, scheduling and preparing checks, resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation; insuring credit is received for outstanding memos, issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments.
- Maintain accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.
- Verify vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements. Enter new or update vendor names and data.
- Report sales taxes by calculating requirements on paid invoices.
- Provide accurate and effective document preparation and records management relative to the AP function in accordance with records retention policies and procedures.
- Protect organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
- Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.
Accounts Payable/Receivable Contact Form