Accounts Payable Specialist

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Join our St. Louis team as an Accounts Payable Specialist and become an employee of a nationally recognized Top Workplace!

Responsibilities

• Responsible for full-cycle accounts payable, including entering, coding, and processing a high volume of invoices in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Drive vendor management practices, including entering new vendors, obtaining, and reviewing W-9s to ensure vendor is set up properly from payment remittance through annual IRS reporting and updating the vendor profiles.
• Ensure all subcontractor invoices are applied to open commitments and work with project managers for any invoices outside the current commitment amount until final resolution.
• Drive awareness and communicate importance of other stakeholder's role in reviewing and approving invoices via the electronic approval workflow; alerting management to issues in the approval workflow process.
• Process regular check runs to ensure all payments are paid in a timely manner and in accordance with established policies.
• Assist project managers or other stakeholders with questions about invoices and related payments to subcontractors, supplies or other vendors on their jobs.
• Respond timely to inquiries from subcontractors and other vendors on outstanding payments, including following through to final resolution.
• Assist in the preparation of audit schedules related to accounts payable for Guarantee Electrical Company and other related parties.
• Assist with the annual 1099 filings for Guarantee Electrical Company and related parties to ensure complete, accurate and timely filing of required information in compliance with IRS regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance or Accounting, or related area
• 2+ years of experience working in Accounting or Finance
• Experience in AEC industry is preferred but not required
• Experience working with a union workforce is preferred but not required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Exceptional knowledge of construction accounts payable functions
• Solid understanding of and ability to apply generally accepted accounting principles and procedures to a variety of accounting audits, transactions, and problems
• Experienced in problem solving with ability to recognize issues and deal with them directly

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. For more information about Guarantee Electrical Company, please visit www.geco.com

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