Accounts Payable Specialist

Accounts Payable Specialist

Johanson Technology Inc. (JTI) is looking for an Account Payable Specialist for our Camarillo, CA location. JTI has over thirty years' experience specializing in the design, manufacture and sales of high-quality Power and RF ceramic chip capacitors, inductors, and Integrated Passive Components into the global electronics market.

The Accounts Payable Specialist will verify and process invoices for goods and services and process requisite check payments.

Essential Functions:

• Maintaining vendor information files, including confidential tax and banking information as necessary.
• Coding and entering A/P invoices.
• Matching invoices against receipts & purchase orders.
• Communicating with Purchasing and Receiving departments to ensure proper three-way procedures are followed and all required data is collected and entered.
• Researching invoice inquiries and communicating with vendors on a regular basic.
• Create and maintain internal work instructions for AP related tasks.
• Responsible for preparing account reconciliations for accounts payable account.
• Responsible for all accounts payable filing.
• Prepare weekly AP related reports.
• Complete annual 1099 reporting requirements.
• Accrue for Sales Tax Returns & Sales Tax filing.
• Other special projects and miscellaneous duties within the Accounting Department.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and organized work environment in accordance with company standards
• Support cross-training initiatives and provide coverage as needed
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities :

• Able to be assertive while maintaining professionality in communications with internal and external stakeholders.
• Self-motivation and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction.
• Capable of prioritizing and determining what needs to be completed according to department needs and workload.
• Ability to effectively prioritize competing requests, while keeping lines of communication open and the team satisfied.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Must have excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to analyze and think quickly to resolve conflict.

Required Education & Experience

• Associate Degree (or 5 years in of equivalent work experience)
• Three (3) + years' experience in Accounts Payable
• General understanding of basic accounting principles.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite 365 (Outlook, Excel, Word, Teams, PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat and or relevant account software

Preferred Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree (or 4 years of equivalent work experience), preferably in Business or Finance
• Experience working in a Manufacturing/Production industry.
• Experience Microsoft Dynamics 365

Company Offer Benefits:

• Medical (HMO/PPO/HSA)
• Dental (HMO/PPO)
• Vision
• Company Paid Basic Life Insurance
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Paid time off (Vacation, Sick, Holiday, and Bereavement)
• 401k Savings plus company match
• Tuition Assistance

Physical and Mental Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel and talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Alternative or combined skills in understanding, counseling, and/or influencing people are important in achieving job objectives, causing action, understanding others, or changing behavior; and, skills of persuasiveness or assertiveness, as well as sensitivity to the point of view of others.
• Performs a wide range of tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions.
• Free to plan work assignments and schedule to meet long-term goals and objectives.
• Performs a wide range of complex tasks with little predictability as to their occurrence.
• Relates sensitive information to diverse groups.
• Must work with diverse groups to obtain consensus on complex issues.
• Must independently apply abstract principles to solve complex conceptual issues.
• Must independently manage a large group of performing varied tasks.
• Must write letters to explain complex issues.
• Persuade or explain complex issues in person or by phone.
• Must be able to infrequently climb stairs to carry documents (2nd floor)

EEO STATEMENT

Johanson Technology Inc., and Johanson Dielectrics Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer to all without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.