AP Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Accounts Payable Analyst

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire

Compensation: $32.00-$35.00/hr

Location: Irving, Texas

Work Model: On-site

Industry: Shared Services / Finance Operations

Company Summary

A rapidly growing commercial services platform supporting a portfolio of operating companies across the United States is expanding its Irving shared services organization.The company provides centralized finance, accounting, technology, and operational support to its business units and continues to scale through both organic growth and acquisitions. The Accounts Payable team operates in a high-volume, multi-entity environment and partners closely with Business Unit Controllers, Procurement, Vendor Master, and operating-company leadership.

The Accounts Payable Analyst supports day-to-day accounts payable operations while taking a more analytical role in invoice workflow, exception resolution, reconciliations, data quality, and process improvement.

The Analyst will work within a high-volume, multi-entity environment and use enterprise accounting systems, automated invoice workflows, and optical character recognition (OCR) tools to help improve accuracy and reduce manual processing. The ideal candidate has a strong hands-on AP foundation and is comfortable researching discrepancies, analyzing workflow issues, reconciling data, and supporting continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support daily accounts payable operations across multiple business entities.
• Review and validate invoices, vendor information, purchase-order details, coding, cost centers, and payment terms.
• Research and resolve purchase-order mismatches, missing receipts, duplicate invoices, coding errors, pricing discrepancies, and other AP exceptions.
• Perform vendor statement reconciliations and investigate aged, missing, or incorrectly applied transactions.
• Monitor approval workflows, AP aging, exception queues, and outstanding items.
• Support recurring non-purchase-order obligations including rent, utilities, taxes, insurance, and other scheduled payments.
• Assist with ACH, wire, check, and other payment processes.
• Support month-end close, accrual readiness, AP subledger reconciliation, and outstanding-item resolution.
• Work with Procurement, Receiving, Vendor Master, business stakeholders, and vendors to resolve issues.
• Help identify recurring AP issues and opportunities to improve workflows, controls, and automation.
• Support testing and adoption of AP system or workflow enhancements.
• Use Excel and system reporting to analyze AP activity, reconciliations, and exceptions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of accounts payable, procure-to-pay, or related accounting operations experience.
• Strong understanding of invoice processing, coding, approvals, vendor records, reconciliations, payments, and exception resolution.
• Experience working in a high-volume AP environment.
• Experience researching and resolving invoice discrepancies.
• Experience with enterprise accounting systems and automated AP workflows.
• Strong Excel, analytical, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work full-time on-site in Irving, Texas.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, ExFlow, SAP, Oracle, Workday, PeopleSoft, NetSuite, or similar platforms.
• Exposure to OCR or invoice automation tools such as Kofax, ABBYY, Tungsten Automation, SAP VIM, OnBase, ImageNow, MarkView, DocLink, AvidXchange, Stampli, or comparable solutions.
• Experience supporting month-end close, accruals, subledger reconciliation, or AP reporting.
• Experience in shared services, multi-entity, construction, industrial, distribution, manufacturing, or field-services environments.
• Exposure to AP process improvement, workflow testing, or finance automation initiatives.