Accounts Payable Specialist I Spanish Speaking  

Basic Function
Responsible for completing accounting activities related to accounts receivable. Responsibilities include completing large volumes of accounting activities related to accounts receivable in a timely manner, following Standard Accounting Policies & Procedures and ensuring that Shared Services Customers are responded to in an accurate manner.

Principal Functional Responsibilities
• Ensure the all receipts have been created by the system
• Apply payments to client accounts or GL accounts after proper research
• Research and clear unidentified payments and account payments assigned
• Initiate collections follow up as per established thresholds
• Adjust entries for payments / invoices as requested through AR forms
• Maintain the Receivable information in the system
• Support BUs for “on-account receipts” and “unallocated receipts”: ensure the automatic reconciliation with late remittance advice is perfomed correctly, manually reverse receipts on demand of the BU’s
• Identify issues, resolve or escalate them
• Customer information maintenance
• Identify areas of improvement
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives

Education/Language
• Associates or BSBA degree in Accounting, Finance and/or Business Administration

Experience/Skills
• 1 - 2 years experience in accounting
• Experience working with an ERP system
• Knowledge, insight and experience in (financial) administrative (accounting) processes
• Basic computer skills (Word, Excel)
• Must speak and write Spanish fluently