AP/AR Specialist (Columbus, GA)

AP/AR Specialist

Lewis James Professional is a woman-owned staff augmentation, project consulting and direct hire search and placement firm. We are currently seeking a AP/AR Specialist for a contract opportunity with a financial services client.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures timely and accurate processing.
• Responds to questions from vendors, team members and business units about invoices and expenses.
• Job Duties and Responsibilities .
• Prepares, records, verifies, analyzes and reports accounts payable/accounts receivable transactions.
• Reconciles bills, checks balances, follows up on discrepancies, and maintains vendor files and communicates with vendors.
• Maintains paperless files and folders per data entry procedures and indexes scanned invoice images.
• Assigns transaction codes to documents; ensures documents being processed are included in the appropriate accounting period.
• Analyzes and verifies internal consistency, completeness, and arithmetic accuracy of account documents and makes adjustments.
• Each team member is expected to be aware of risk within their functional area.
• This includes observing all policies, procedures, laws, regulations and risk limits specific to their role.
• Additionally, they should raise and report known or suspected violations to the appropriate Company authority in a timely fashion. 
• Performs other related duties as required. 
• The information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. 

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Associate’s degree Accounts payable or related accounting experience.
• Good listening and speaking skills.
• Problem resolution skills to analyze vendor issues and formulate effective solution.
• 1 year of job related experience.

For immediate consideration, please click “Apply” and use Job Code BHJOB11837_3945. You may also send a copy of your resume to: resumes@lewisjamesprofessional.com and enter only the following job code in the subject line: BHJOB11837_3945. Lewis James Professional is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V