Accounts Payable Specialist

Position: Accounts Payable Specialist 2

The Procurement & Payables Section buys vital goods and services for King County government. Our Mission is to help King County achieve sustainability and social equity through responsible stewardship of county resources, streamlined business processes, and strategic procurements from innovative suppliers. We are seeking career accounting professionals to become part of a growing world class organization. We are looking for enthusiastic, forward thinking, agile, and customer service driven employees to add to our great team.

Current Opening: Accounts Payable Specialist 2 (Fiscal Specialist
2). We are hiring for multiple positions - Term-Limited Temporary (9 months) or Short-Term Temporary (3-4 months)

Scope of Job Duties: To be considered for this opportunity, you must at a minimum, demonstrate knowledge, skill and ability to:

• Process invoices accurately to ensure prompt payment to vendors in a high volume and fast paced work environment. Interpret established policies, procedures, and guidelines for payment to internal and external customers.
• Respond to agency and supplier requests for research of outstanding invoices, payments, affidavits and cancellations.
• Communicate effectively with vendors and internal customers to identify and correct errors and problems that may delay vendor payment.
• Ensure correspondence and warrant mailings are conducted in a professional, timely manner and in compliance with IRS regulations.
• Ensure returned payments and vendor refunds are reviewed and researched with the appropriate funding partner and processed in a timely manner.
• Participate in special projects or assignments

Minimum Qualifications:

• Accounts Payable invoice processing within an integrated accounting financial software and reporting systemwhich includes:
• Entering data with speed, accuracy, and a high attention to detail
• Matching invoices, purchase orders, and receipts
• Analyzing data such as invoices and warrants to identify potential problems or issues
• Customer service including analyzing, researching, and solving customer issues while maintaining positive customer relationships.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and writing skills
• Intermediate level of technology proficiency using MS Office Productivity tools in your daily work
• Ability to manage your time and adapt to changing priorities, work on multiple priorities and projects simultaneously, meet quick deadlines, and produce timely and quality work products.
• Ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience using Oracle EBS accounts payable modules.
• Experience performing accounts payable duties in a governmental agency.
• Accounts Payable certification.
• Experience calculating state and local taxes, and sales and use tax.
• Education or training in bookkeeping, general accounting or business administration.
• Experience with LEAN processes and principles

The Finance and Business Operations Division's mission is to provide exceptional customer value for accounting, procurement, treasury, and small business services. We are actively seeking employees whose behavior is in alignment with our division's core values.

Other Position Information:
This position is Non-Exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and is therefore overtime eligible. Employees are paid on a bi-weekly schedule, every other Thursday, comprising a 40-hour workweek; normally 8:00 a.m.

- 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. This position is represented by Teamsters 117.

The work associated with this position will primarily be hybrid, with about one day a week in the office.

Employees must reside in Washington state and within a reasonable distance to their King County worksite to respond to workplace reporting requirements.

Employees will be provided with a County issued laptop. When working remotely employees must maintain a workspace with an internet connection (access may be supplemented in some situations) where they can reliably perform work and remain available and responsive during scheduled work hours. Please note that when an employee conducts work that is likely to bring them in contact with another individual, safety precautions are required, including the wearing of masks in some situations.

King County is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and remains committed to reducing our carbon footprint.
King County has a robust collection of tools and resources to support working remotely. The individual selected for this opportunity will be joining an innovative and progressive team that is redefining how we work as we transition to the department's hybrid environment.

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Application Process:

A completed King County Application is required. The recruitment for this position is open to all qualified candidates. Applicants from this recruitment may be used to fill future opportunities in this job classification. We highly recommend that you also provide a resume and cover letter addressing how you meet the minimum qualifications and why you are…