Accounts Payable/Risk Support Specialist

Vaco; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco, partnering with a client in Tempe, AZ, seeks an Accounts Payable/Risk Compliance Specialist for a contract-to-hire role. You will process payments, input invoices, and support risk and compliance activities.

You will collaborate with Treasury and audit teams, handle vendor inquiries, and ensure timely month-end close while maintaining strong internal controls. This role emphasizes attention to detail, effective communication, and teamwork, with compensation up to $26 per hour depending on

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of accounts payable processes.
• Experience with large ERP systems preferred.
• Excellent communication and time management skills.
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Process vendor payments via ACH, wire, and checks.
• Input and verify vendor invoices for accuracy.
• Manage shared mailboxes and respond to inquiries.
• Coordinate with Treasury to batch payments and fix discrepancies.
• Handle check requests including stop payments and reissues.
• Investigate payment issues and stale-dated checks.
• Support month-end close and generate reports.
• Assist Risk team with document management.
• Contribute to audits with requested documentation.

Skills

Accounts payable

Vendor payments

Attention to detail

Time management

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Tools

ERP system

Job description

Vaco is partnering with a client to fill an exciting Accounts Payable/Risk Compliance Specialist opportunity in Tempe, AZ. This is a contract-to-hire position offering up to $26 per hour, based on experience.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate vendor payments through ACH, wire transfers, and in-house check issuance.
• Review and input vendor invoices, ensuring accuracy and timely processing.
• Manage shared support mailboxes, addressing inquiries from both internal teams and external partners.
• Partner with the Treasury team to process payment batches and troubleshoot any payment file discrepancies.
• Handle check-related requests, including stop payments, voids, reissues, and retrieval of check copies.
• Investigate and resolve outstanding payment issues, including stale-dated checks and vendor concerns.
• Prepare and distribute reports while supporting month-end accounting close processes.
• Organize and electronically route incoming departmental correspondence.
• Provide administrative assistance to the Risk team, including document management, scanning, filing, faxing, and records maintenance.
• Support annual 1099 reporting activities by gathering and organizing required information.
• Maintain a high level of customer service when assisting employees, vendors, and other business partners.
• Assist with internal and external audit requests by compiling and providing requested documentation.
• Contribute to special projects and take on additional responsibilities as needed.
  

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of accounts payable and general accounting procedures
• Experience with large ERP preferred
• Good communication skills
• Ability to organize and prioritize
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and time management
• High ethical and professional
• Ability to prioritize and meet multiple deadlines
• Ability to work as part of a team

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual's skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.

EEO Notice

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Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [e-mail].

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

Representation Notice

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada: Based on Highspring's discussions with its Client, Highspring's understanding is that this position for employment is a current vacancy (either through Highspring as a contractor or with the client directly).

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

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.