Payables Accountant I
Portland, Oregon - Added Jan 14th, 2023
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Accounts Payable
Duration: 6 Month Contract, temp-to-hire possible
Location: Hybrid, Must be located in or around Portland, Oregon
Pay: $20-$22.80 / Hour
Our client, a leader in the healthcare industry, is looking for an Accounts Payable Specialist. Responsibilities include a variety of payment activities to suppliers, providers, members, and other general payments.
Key Responsibilities for Accounts Payable Specialist:
Requirements/Qualifications for Accounts Payable Specialist:
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
JB / BH 11122
Duration: 6 Month Contract, temp-to-hire possible
Location: Hybrid, Must be located in or around Portland, Oregon
Pay: $20-$22.80 / Hour
Our client, a leader in the healthcare industry, is looking for an Accounts Payable Specialist. Responsibilities include a variety of payment activities to suppliers, providers, members, and other general payments.
Key Responsibilities for Accounts Payable Specialist:
- Comprehensive audit activities including the review, analysis, and verifications of payment activities.
- Monitors, reviews, and processes all invoices, statements, voucher check requests, and other documentation requesting payment to ensure the appropriate liability, expense, or capital asset general ledger account is utilized to coincide with corporate budget.
- Researches and responds to payment inquiries from vendors, providers, members, and business partners.
- Establishes new EFT set ups and performs all set up maintenance including bank-relationship changes for providers
- Balance and record payments made to subscribers, providers, hospitals, and/or vendors to ensure payments are reconciled with documentation and reports.
- Maintains check control logs and claims balancing information in accordance with departmental processes.
- Researches issues, places stop payment orders and generates replacement payments as necessary.
- Applies payables best practices and generally acceptable protocols to all payment and EFT requests, review documentation for completeness, accuracy, and appropriate approvals.
- Facilitates the improper check endorsement process for Vendors, Providers and/or members
- Researches and responds to inquiries related to discrepancies in the Payables sub ledger as requested by the Financial Accounting and Reporting team.
- Completes daily banking functions including positive pay research and decisions.
- Utilizes workflow or other technologies as appropriate to research outstanding issues and void, or void and reissue payments as appropriate.
- Updates applicable systems to ensure other departments can effectively research and resolve outstanding questions from customers, members, and business partners.
- Creates and maintains a record of voided checks and check tracers for informational retrieval and audit purposes.
Requirements/Qualifications for Accounts Payable Specialist:
- An Associate’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business and 2+ years of general accounting, accounts payable or disbursement accounting experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge Accounts Payables processes.
- Experience using a variety of personal computer software applications to perform general administrative functions.
- Experience should include Intermediate Excel, Word, email, and calendaring software.
- Process detailed data in an accurate manner.
- Strong interpersonal skills, self-motivation, excellent communication, customer service orientation, tolerance for ambiguity, demonstrated sound decision making.
- Exercises good judgment in confidential matters.
- Ability to plan and organize own work to meet deadlines.
- Ability to work flexible hours during periods of heavy workloads.
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
JB / BH 11122
Job ID: 11122