Accounts Payable Analyst

Accounts Payable Analyst (Fully Remote)

Pay: $30-$35/hr

Overview Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering a complete platform for the modern workforce. We're looking for an Accounts Payable Analyst to join a lean, collaborative team in a period of transition and help keep month-end close activities, accruals, invoice processing, and reconciliations running accurately and on time. This is a 90-day assignment to start, with potential for extension and conversion, and is fully remote (candidates cannot be located in CA, WA, or OR). The team is operating in an "all hands on deck" environment with limited training capacity—success in this role requires someone who can work independently, communicate proactively, and "hit the ground running."

What You'll Do (Responsibilities) You'll support accurate financial reporting and smooth accounts payable operations by owning and improving key processes, including:

• Record month-end accruals by interpreting invoice and contract data, estimating projected expenses, and applying GAAP controls to support recommendations
• Review high-volume, complex invoices for accuracy and appropriate G/L coding
• Complete and review reconciliations related to accounts payable accounts, ensuring completeness and accuracy
• Identify accrual and reconciliation variances, recommend changes, and adjust journal entries as needed
• Perform analytical procedures (what happened, why it happened, and what should change), including documenting rationale and recommendations
• Troubleshoot vendor inquiries and ensure vendor requests and payments are handled timely
• Review and respond to audit support requests
• Support new vendor setup, confirming requests are accurate and documentation is complete
• Partner with the manager to implement new policies and procedures to create efficiencies
• Take the lead in user acceptance testing for a new AP system and related procedures
• Assist with administration of the company credit card program (issuing cards and ensuring purchases are reported appropriately in the G/L)
• Review vendor contracts and support proper expense recognition
• Support the 1099 process to ensure vendor details and reportable income are accurate
• Contribute to additional analysis and accounting projects as needed

Must-Have Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• 2–3 years of corporate finance experience
• Experience with general accounting duties, including account reconciliations, accounts payable, and general ledger work
• Strong experience preparing and working with accrual journal entries and understanding end-to-end accounting (not just invoice coding)
• Experience with high-volume AP invoice processing (target volume is roughly 300–500 invoices/month per person in this team's workflow)
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel for large-dataset analysis, including functions/tools such as:
• XLOOKUP
• SUMIFS / COUNTIFS
• IF / IFS / IFERROR / AND / OR
• INDEX / MATCH
• Date formulas (EOMONTH, EDATE, NETWORKDAYS)
• Text-cleaning formulas (TRIM, CLEAN, SUBSTITUTE, LEFT, RIGHT, MID)
• PivotTables / PivotCharts, filtering, conditional formatting, duplicate & exception identification, Excel Tables/structured references

Nice-to-Have

• NetSuite experience (highly preferred)
• Power Query experience for combining, cleaning, and refreshing data
• Exposure to a public company environment

Work Environment / What to Expect

• High-volume AP environment handling approximately 1,900–2,000 invoices per month
• "Roll up your sleeves" team culture requiring initiative, follow-through, and strong communication
• Remote role with a need to collaborate cross-functionally and keep work moving with limited training capacity

Why Join

• Join a fast-moving AP/accounting operations team during a transition period where your work will directly support timely, accurate close and reporting
• Opportunity to contribute to process improvements and system changes, including UAT for a new AP system