Job description:

Compensation: $65,000 – $80,000 base

Why Consider This Senior Accounts Payable Specialist Role:

• Leadership Opportunity: Step into a role where you’ll mentor and develop an AP team while driving performance.
• High-Volume Environment: Gain experience in a fast-paced setting with strong exposure to end-to-end AP operations.
• Process Improvement Focus: Opportunity to streamline workflows, improve efficiencies, and contribute to automation initiatives.
• Stable & Growing Company: Join a well-established organization with consistent growth and operational stability.
• Collaborative Culture: Work cross-functionally with accounting, finance, and operations teams.
• Strong Benefits: Competitive healthcare, 401(k), PTO, and additional perks.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Accounts Payable Specialist:

• Supervise daily accounts payable operations, ensuring timely and accurate processing of invoices and payments.
• Assign workloads, monitor team performance, and support deadlines in a high-volume environment.
• Mentor, train, and support development of AP team members.
• Review and approve complex or high-value transactions.
• Oversee invoice coding, approvals, and payment processing (ACH, check, wire).
• Manage vendor relationships and resolve escalated discrepancies.
• Reconcile vendor statements and ensure account accuracy.
• Prepare AP reports, aging reports, and performance metrics.

Qualifications of the Senior Accounts Payable Specialist:

• 1–3 years of leadership or supervisory experience preferred.
• Experience with ERP systems (Sage experience is a plus).
• Distribution or similar industry experience is a plus.