Job Title: Accounts Payable Clerk.
6-to-9-month contract.
Downtown Toronto (Onsite).
Our client in the health care sector is currently looking for an Accounts Payable Clerk to join their team:
Responsibilities:
- Process high volume of vendor invoices and payment requests for all operations, capital projects and trust funds with effective attention to detail.
- Validate invoices by checking payment authorization, corporate policies and compliance of documentation requirements.
- Follow up and resolve outstanding invoices, credit notes and any items over 30 days old.
- Correspond with vendors to resolve problems and discrepancies in a timely manner.
- Reconcile supplier general ledger accounts to statements on a monthly basis and provide aged creditor listings for audit purposes.
- Obtain appropriate approvals based on signing authority policy and perform timely follow up with management and department staff on overdue invoices and approval requests.
- Participate in month-end, quarter-end and year-end preparations and other special projects (e.g. audits).
- Match POs (2 & 3 way match), verify coding, receiving slips for proper coding and prices.
- Accurately calculate, post, correct, and manage accounting figures and financial records.
- Process and monitor monthly payment of procurement cards.
- Prepare information to facilitate preparation of accruals.
- Prepare A/P support for wire transfers.
- Participate in SAP user acceptance testing, system troubleshoot and creation and revision of users training documents..
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or finance.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Excel vlookup, pivot table).
- At least 3 years of work experience in finance/accounting or similar environment.
- Experience working in a large ERP system (SAP, Oracle)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
