Accounts Payable Specialist

About the Company: 

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a dynamic billion-dollar global company based in Research Triangle Park, NC, providing retail store solutions to your favorite brands.  Have you ever been in a hurry and made use of the self-checkout at Lowe’s Foods, earned fuel rewards at Kroger, or just paid for purchases at retailers such as Walmart, Michaels, Carrefour, The Gap, Calvin Klein, Boots, Cencosud, BJ’s, or Costco?  These are just a few examples of our in-store solutions and impressive customer base that made us the world's installed market share leader.

Position Summary:

The AP Specialist is responsible for the processing of documentation and related payment resulting from the purchase of goods and services by the Company and reimbursement to employees. As a full-time position, the AP Specialist will be responsible for fulfilling the Mission Statement by performing duties across various functions within accounts payable processing.

Financial Impact

Accounts payable is a fundamental component of financial statements, which provides insights into a company's short-term obligations and ability to manage cash flow. It impacts the balance sheet, income, and cash flow statements. Proper management of accounts payable ensures timely payments to suppliers and contributes to and overall financial stability of the company

Responsibilities

Data Entry and Analysis:

• Ensure vendor payments, employee reimbursements, and intercompany settlements are processed accurately and on time.
• Develops and maintains relationships with customers, suppliers and other company departments to ensure positive interactions, resolutions, and outcomes of inquiries and issues and works in collaboration with other departments to make identified changes to improve processes.
• Resolves escalated internal and external customer issues.

Month-end close

• Responsible for month-¬end closing activities including researching and analyzing issues, resulting from incomplete or inaccurate invoice entries, Purchasing order variances, etc.
• Ensure all invoices are entered into Oracle and validated in the current accounting period.
• Ensure timeliness and accuracy of all month-end closing activities.    

Areas of Skills & Expertise

• Comfortable with math and calculations along with basic data entry skills.
• Managing accounts payable using accounting software and other programs.
• High level of proficiency in the English language. Should be able to communicate verbally and in writing in English with team members, management, customers, suppliers and auditors located in the United States and across the globe.
• Handling accounts payable for separate entities and vendors.
• Analyzing workflow processes.
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with new and existing vendors.
• Ensuring bills and payroll are paid in a timely and accurate manner while adhering to departmental procedures.
• Processing due invoices for payments.
• Comparing purchase orders, prices, terms of payment and other charges.
• Processing transactions and performing accounting duties such as account maintenance, recording entries and reconciling books of accounts.
• Excellent communication skills; demonstrated professional, tactful problem-solving skills with vendors and financial institutions.

We offer:

• Hired directly by Toshiba and 100% under payroll.
• Benefits of the law (IMSS, INFONAVIT, December day voucher, vacation voucher)
• Life insurance, major medical expenses with dental and visual coverage. (For the employee and direct family members).
• Minor medical expenses insurance.
• Savings fund for employees, capped at the limit of the law.
• Grocery coupons.
• Pension plan.
• 12 days of vacation plus 6 floating days

EEO:

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, religious creed, disability, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation or any other protected factor. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.