Accounts Payable Clerk Contract

Our client, a large Financial Institution is looking for an Accounts Payable Clerk in Saint Paul, MN

Duties & Responsibilities:

Process vendor payment requests on a timely and accurate basis, according to the terms specified on the payment requests with the ability to meet the required processing deadlines at month, quarter, and year end.

• Work with the internal clients or vendors as to where the products being invoiced were shipped, to verify the proper sales tax is applied to the invoice.
• Create and maintain excellent working relationship with vendors, internal clients, and AP team to communicate issues, discrepancies, or status of payments.
• Email invoices to internal clients for coding prior to payment, contact Procurement for change orders or additions to the PO and/or ensure receipt of goods or services.
• Accurately create accounting journal entries to be posted to the general ledger.
• Open and distribute electronic invoices to internal clients for expense coding, to enter the necessity items on the invoice to route the invoice to the proper Budget Coordinator to begin the approval authority for processing invoices to make payments by the terms established with the vendor.
• Provide backup support to other A/P Vendor Clerks for vacations or time out of the office. Assist other team members with any additional items needed.

What we’d expect from you:

• Effective organizational and prioritization skills with great attention to detail.
• Ability to learn and understand the basic rules of Sales/Use Tax, and what products purchased should be accessed or exempt from sales tax.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills while maintaining a positive attitude and ability
• to work effectively with team members, internal clients, Procurement, and vendors.
• Keyboarding skills with high accuracy and basic PC and mainframe experience/skills.
• Ability to adjust in a changing environment.
• Basic math skills.
• Ability to work overtime as requested by management at month end or year end.

Preferred skills for this job:

• Knowledge of basic accounting principles.

Physical job requirements:

• Ability to work at least 40 hours per week.
• Ability to utilize keyboard, mouse, and computer for approximately 3-7 hours per day.
• Ability to utilize phone for approximately 1-2 hours per day.
• Ability to communicate and respond through E-mail and teams periodically throughout entire workday.