- Experience
- 6+ yrs
- Location
- Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
- Job type
- Full-time
About the role
Accounts Payable Tech Lead
The Accounts Payable Lead provides daily technical oversight but does not directly supervise staff. This role serves as an advanced individual contributor with specialized expertise, performing highly complex and expert-level work while providing guidance and mentorship to support the development of the Accounts Payable Technicians.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provides oversight of all Accounts Payable processing activities, including invoice review, cash disbursements, reconciliations, batch review, and proactive monitoring and resolution of past due invoices to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with internal controls.
- Handles complex transactions and problematic vendor accounts by assisting AP Technicians with research and reconciliation efforts.
- Responsible for daily balancing of the Accounts Payable account, identifying and resolving transaction interface issues, and journalizing transactions to ensure accurate financial records.
- Responsible for processing weekly cash disbursements, ensuring accuracy, proper authorization, and compliance with internal controls.
- Reconciles and closes Accounts Payable in INFOR monthly.
- Assists in developing accounts payable policies and procedures; ensures external and internal controls and policies are adhered to.
- Guides the accounts payable team by ensuring that correct accounting policies and procedures are followed.
- Coordinates and prepares annual Accounts Payable accruals as part of the year-end close process.
- Responsible for monitoring, researching, and resolving stale dated checks in accordance with accounting policies.
- Responsible for preparing and distributing annual tax reporting, such as Forms 1099 and 1042, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and regulatory compliance.
- Serves as the primary Accounts Payable point of contact for the annual audit, conducting AP process walkthroughs with auditors, providing requested sample documentation, and responding to audit inquiries.
- Acts as the primary Accounts Payable point of contact for all CORA requests, ensuring timely and accurate responses in compliance with reporting requirements.
- Answers all Service Now cases assigned to the Accounts Payable Department promptly.
Who You Are:
- You will most likely have an Associate's degree (Preferred)
- An equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that provides the required skills, knowledge, and abilities may be accepted in place of the education requirement
- You will most likely have six (6) or more years of progressively responsible experience working in an accounts payable processing department in a large organization with a similar scope and systems
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Exerts up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a small amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
- Positions in this class typically require talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions within an office working environment.
About Colorado Springs Utilities
Provides municipal electric, gas, water, and wastewater services.
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