Accounts Payable Specialist

Community Solutions Group; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 59,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

Community Solutions Group in Grand Rapids is seeking an Accounts Payable Specialist who challenges why variances exist as much as how large they are. The role offers real mentorship, a defined ladder, and the flexibility to clock in from Grand Rapids or from home, with a compensation range reflecting experience.

The successful candidate will manage reconciliation, build P&L bridges for spend swings, and own tax provisions while collaborating with department heads across the organization in MI.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A Grand Rapids network, or the hustle to build one from scratch.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written.
• Practical Written Communication skills sharpened in a freelance setting.

Responsibilities

• Keep the freelance commission calc transparent enough to survive a dispute
• Oversee accounts reconciliation across multiple entities and currencies
• Build the finance P&L bridge that explains every dollar of swing
• Run the freelance close for a mid-level ledger you fully own
• Identify cost-saving opportunities through detailed spend analysis
• Own the tax provision and the footnotes that explain it
• Partner with department heads to track spending against approved budgets

Skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

Networking Grand Rapids

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

This Accounts Payable Specialist seat at Community Solutions Group rewards the person who asks why the variance exists, not just how large it is. Everything here scales with you — $59,000 - $89,000 at 3 years, finance ownership soon after, and a Community Solutions Group ladder above.

Key Responsibilities

• Keep the freelance commission calc transparent enough to survive a dispute
• Oversee accounts reconciliation across multiple entities and currencies
• Build the finance P&L bridge that explains every dollar of swing
• Run the freelance close for a mid-level ledger you fully own
• Identify cost-saving opportunities through detailed spend analysis
• Own the tax provision and the footnotes that explain it
• Partner with department heads to track spending against approved budgets

What You'll Bring

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A Grand Rapids network, or the hustle to build one from scratch
• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
• Practical Written Communication skills sharpened in a freelance setting

Long obsessed with Written Communication, Community Solutions Group has turned a Grand Rapids office into one of the question‑everything centers of finance innovation in MI. We onboard you to the finance mission first and the Financial Statements tooling second, in that order.

Our $59,000 - $89,000 package travels with real mentorship, a growth ladder you can see, and the flexibility to clock in from Grand Rapids or home.

This Accounts Payable Specialist posting is fresh, active, and open for business right now.