Accounts Payable Lead

Title: Accounts Payable Lead

Location: Seattle, WA
Job Type: Regular Full-Time

What’s the Opportunity?
Anchor QEA is seeking an accounts payable professional to assist the Assistant
Controller in managing the Company’s outgoing cash cycle process. The Accounts
Payable Lead will be collaborating with various internal and external clients to ensure
timely and accurate reporting of payment activity to enable the organization to properly
understand it’s cash flow. This role is an essential part of the success of Anchor QEA as
it provides visibility to the cash cycle to Senior Management and C-Suite to make
decisions.

Responsibilities:
This role is responsible for the following under the supervision of the Assistant
Controller:
• Process invoices received from external subcontractors and vendors daily in
collaboration with the rest of the Accounts Payable team, including ensuring all
invoices received are valid, coding invoices to the proper project and account,
routing to the proper employee for approval, and following up on
outstanding/unapproved invoices with internal stakeholders.
• Perform regular reconciliation processes at least monthly by receiving and
reconciling vendor statements to invoices received and processed to ensure that
all payments are valid and made timely to our partners.
• Assist with the vendor setup process, including validating vendor tax and bank
information, and ensuring accuracy of inputs into the Company’s accounting
system.
• Lead the annual 1099 reporting process.
• Lead the weekly ACH/Check payment process.
• Assist the Assistant Controller in ensuring data quality of all related reports,
including timely posting of external invoice activity and punctual responses in
regard to questions from internal and external customers.
• Assist the Assistant Controller in research and payment activities with Project
Managers, Project Accountants and Clients (as needed).
• Assist the Assistant Controller and Controller with cash forecasting activities.

• Assist the General Ledger Accounting team with research payment activity
identified during the Bank Reconciliation process
• Assist the Assistant Controller and Controller in month-end and year-end
activities (example: audits) as needed.
• Assist the Assistant Controller and Controller in other activities as required.

What Are We Looking For?
Ideal candidates will have the following:
• At least a two-year associate’s degree in accounting or finance
• Preferred Accounting Experience in the A/E/C
(Architectural/Engineering/Construction) Industry.
• Experience using BST, Deltek and other similar ERP suites.
• 10+ years of experience within the outgoing cash cycle (accounts payable,
treasury/banking)
• The ideal candidate will be willing to learn the job role, have a positive attitude,
be collaborative with multiple people and personalities, and be flexible to take on
new challenges as they arise. This candidate would not be comfortable with the
status quo and be willing to continually improve processes in collaboration with
the rest of the Accounting and Finance team.
• Candidates must have high integrity and personal ethics due to the sensitive
nature of the work.

Who Are We? 
Anchor QEA provides environmental planning, science, and engineering consulting services with the mission of transforming our environment and communities with integrity and vibe. With more than 500 people in offices across the United States, our collective vision is to be an inclusive, sustainable, and growing environmental innovator making generational impacts. By embodying our core values, we strive to be our clients’ first choice for solving their most challenging problems and to be our employees’ reason to be excited about going to work each morning. Learn more about Anchor QEA at www.anchorqea.com.  

How to Apply? 
Apply online through Anchor QEA’s Open Positions page at https://www.anchorqea.com/careers/careers-open-positions/.  Veterans are encouraged to apply. 

Applicants with a disability, who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, may e-mail their request to recruitment@anchorqea.com

Additional Information 
We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, Anchor QEA is committed to a diverse, multi-cultural work environment. Anchor QEA does not discriminate in employment based on age, race, creed, gender, religion, marital status, veteran’s status, national origin, disability or sexual orientation.  Employment is contingent upon satisfactory results of a comprehensive background check.

Salary and Other Compensation:

• Salary: $ 33.24 - $ 36.98
  
• Annual Bonus
• Other potential bonus types: Billable Time Bonus, Spot Bonus, Milestone Anniversary Bonus, Receiving Professional License/Certification Bonus, Peer-reviewed Publication Bonus, Employee Referral Bonus.

Base Level Benefits for Regular Full-Time Positions:

• Healthcare: Medical, dental, vision, basic life and AD&D insurance
• Paid Company and Floating Holidays: 7 paid company and 2 floating holidays annually
• Vacation: 2 weeks accrued paid vacation based on length of service. Vacation may vary by level.
• Sick and Safe Time: 80 hours annually
• Retirement Plan: 401k plan with an employer match * Further information on benefits: https://anchorqea.com/careers/benefits/