Accounts Payable Specialist - 0302 Armstrong Atlanta

The Armstrong Company is a global leader in supply chain services and residential and commercial moving. Our nationwide network of local experts combine personalized attention and global reach to provide solutions tailored exactly to your needs. Whether you’re moving your household, your business, or your product, we do what it takes to get your goods where they need to go. Our world moves around you.

As an AP Specialist, you will be responsible for communicating with the department manager and customers/vendors regarding receivables and payables matters in a timely fashion, ensure integrity of outgoing payments & cash flow, and generating monthly statements.  In addition, the AP/AR Specialist is responsible for booking payables/receivables in the system and processing payments to vendors. Top candidates must have a strong attention-to-detail and multi-tasking skills with the ability to manage and analyze complex and high volumes of data and be deadline-oriented with a high level of accuracy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand customer and vendor order processing
• Ensures billings and receivables are correctly processed in a timely manner.
• Addresses and corrects any discrepancies in accounts or billings. Report all discrepancies to the manager
• Process all payment transactions such as ACH, wires, and paper checks.
• Data entry, validation, and processing of various types of invoices
• Retrieve third-party vendor contract execution by collecting W-9 forms and certificates of liability insurance, paying invoices, and preparing annual 1099 forms for distribution to vendors.
• Assist with all internal & external audit activity including planning, preparation, and data gathering.
• Assist with standardizing procedures to generate efficiency in-house and create internal templates to be used by the company.
• Adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Policies (GAAP).
• Maintain organization of all AP/AR documents and related information.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years of accounts payable experience.
• High level of proficiency in Accounting Systems and Microsoft Excel.
• Experience in invoicing, accounts payable, accounts receivable best practices.
• Strong problem-solving ability and analytical skills including root cause analysis.
• Prior experience in cash management 
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with excellent written, verbal, presentation and listening skills.
• Must demonstrate ability to work in a team environment and willingness to assume additional or new responsibilities readily.

The Armstrong Company & Companies is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, veteran status, military status, or any other characteristic or status protected by federal, state, or local law. If you need assistance or accommodations during the application process due to a disability, it is available upon request.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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