Job Title: Accounts Payable Associate Senior
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 221349
Job Summary

Provide primary customer support to campus financial approvers and vendors for vendor payment issues. Provide administrative support for policy updates, training coordination, and tracking exceptions. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: vendors, staff, and campus financial management and staff. This position typically will advise and counsel: vendors, staff and campus financial staff. This position will supervise: N/A

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 -

Review requests for payment (invoices, check requests, employee payment requests, etc.) to verify accuracy and validity and enter payment requests in to financial system.

Job Duty 2 -
Audit and process payments for employee and visitor travel and expense reimbursements and other travel-related payments.

Job Duty 3 -
Primary customer service support via the .ask email service. Vendor statements, tracking credits, consolidating accounts, minimizing credit holds.

Job Duty 4 -
Provide dedicated support for production activities during peak periods. Payment team administrative project/audits, tracking exceptions, trends and reporting.

Job Duty 5 -
Participate in vendor meetings to ensure AP best practices.

Job Duty 6 -
AP Campus training class coordinator.

Job Duty 7 -
Update AP policies as approved by the Director.

Job Duty 8 -
Back up to ap.ask for campus and non-vendor inquiries.

Job Duty 9 -
Back up to match exceptions and In Process voucher review and travel exceptions

Job Duty 10 -

Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
Technical Diploma, Associate's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications
Flexibility in on-site daily service delivery hours (due to client shift schedules, project requayableements).

Required Experience
Three to four years of job related experience

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Accounts Payable in a University Setting Intermediate Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills Excellent communication and customer service skills and an understanding of procure-to-pay best practices. Workday experience and experience working in a high-volume, fast paced environment is also strongly preferred.

Preferred Educational Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree

Proposed Salary

Propsed salary for this position is $37,451.63 - $50,934.22

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

SKILLS
Working knowledge of and skill in applying payables processing procedures and use of related system applications and processing hardware/equipment. Customer service and communications skills are required as is the ability to plan and organize work. Understanding of Institute procurement Policies. Fast and accurate data entry. Understanding of issues that create match exceptions. Ability to resolve complex customer service inquiries related to payment status, process, and procedures. Ability to run queries and format reports. Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and make recommendations. Must understand best practices, polices, and procedures associated with all AP tasks Knowledge of basic accounts payable auditing and voucher entry.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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Background Check

**Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check that will include a credit check. Please visit http://www.policylibrary.gatech.edu/pre-employment-screening to obtain GT's background and credit policy.