Accounts Payable Specialist

Description

You have a high level of customer and client focus and can handle a large volume of processing and data management. As an Accounts Payable Specialist, you will contribute to ensuring timely and accurate payment of PO invoices, tracking, and resolving outstanding payments. Lori’s Gifts is the nation’s largest hospital gift shop retailer. The A/P Specialist will take full ownership of the A/P process. 

WHAT YOU WILL DO (Responsibilities):

You will work with a diverse team, utilizing your knowledge of accounts payable processes and suggest ways to evaluate and improve processes. You are also:

• Responsible for the timely processing of all assigned PO vendor invoices utilizing a 3-way match in accordance with company policies and procedures
• Resolve invoice and un-vouchered receipt discrepancies
• Reconcile vendor statements to ensure all invoices and credits are being processed
• Timely handling of all vendor and store correspondence via phone or email
• Prioritize invoices according to payment terms
• Maintain thorough and accurate vendor records
• Manage and complete all projects as assigned

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and may not necessarily comprise all the "essential functions" for purposes of the ADA.

Requirements

WE ARE LOOKING FOR (Requirements):

You are an independent thinker who communicates clearly to all levels of management. You are highly organized with the skill of managing multiple priorities and assignments by the deadline. Along with working within a diverse workforce, we are looking for the Accounts Payable Specialist to also bring the following:

• High School Diploma required. Some college preferred.
• 3 or more years of work experience in high volume PO 3-way matching; Retail experience a plus
• Well-developed analytic and problem-solving skills
• Successful in dealing with vendor and company personnel at all levels.
• Hands on, self-starting, disciplined, and detail-oriented individual with the ability to work independently in a high-volume environment that requires a work product that is highly accurate and timely.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office Excel skills (VLOOKUP & Pivot tables)
• NetSuite experience preferred

WHO WE ARE:

We are the heart of the hospital experience, a trusted place for joy and support when people need it most. Our guests visit our store locations for different experiences while visiting loved ones in the hospital, or between breaks while at work. Lori’s Gifts is a unique retailer servicing over 300 hospitals nationwide for over 40 years. We continue to grow because of our compassionate employees that remain close to the positive hospital relationships we have developed in the communities we serve.  

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees' differences, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or Veteran status. Different makes us better.