AP Specialist

Client: Well-Known Organization

Role: Accounts Payable / Accounting Specialist

Location: Long Island City, NY
Candidates must be willing to travel to Connecticut for the onsite interview process.

Salary: $65,000 - $85,000 + Benefits

Position Overview:

A well-known organization is seeking an experienced Accounts Payable / Accounting Specialist to join its team. The ideal candidate will have strong full-cycle AP experience and be comfortable working in a highly manual environment while helping drive process improvements, automation, and efficiencies over time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the full accounts payable cycle from invoice processing through payment execution

• Review, code, and process invoices accurately using appropriate GL accounts

• Perform account reconciliations and resolve discrepancies

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of debits, credits, and accounting principles

• Assist with month-end close activities and AP reporting

• Support efforts to automate and streamline AP processes over the next 1-2 years

• Maintain accurate records and ensure timely vendor payments

Qualifications:

• Strong full-cycle Accounts Payable experience

• Solid understanding of GL coding, reconciliations, debits, and credits

• Accounting, bookkeeping, or AP-focused background with strong accounting fundamentals

• Experience working in a manual accounting environment

• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

• Ability to identify process improvement opportunities and contribute to automation initiatives

Preferred Background:

• Accountant with significant AP responsibilities

• Bookkeeper with heavy AP and reconciliation experience

• Senior AP professional with a strong accounting foundation

Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.