Accounts Payable Specialist

Energy Innovation Corp; Yakima (WA); On-site; USD 91,000 - 133,000; Part time

Job summary

Social Change Institute in Yakima, WA is seeking an Accounts Payable Specialist for hands-on accounting, reporting, and stakeholder-ready analysis. The role offers $91,000 - $133,000 per year with freelance hours and a collaborative finance team that supports you.

You will implement controls, resolve disputes, run cash positioning, and mentor junior staff while ensuring accurate transfer pricing handoffs across teams.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to read room dynamics and communicate with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail in invoicing and reconciliation.

Responsibilities

• Implement and document internal controls to safeguard assets.
• Resolve billing disputes and reduce aged receivables.
• Run weekly cash positioning and short-term borrowing decisions.
• Identify and surface cost drivers affecting margins.
• Review covenant terms to keep lenders calm.
• Support pricing and unit economics modeling with the team.
• Mentor junior accounting staff and review their work.
• Ensure smooth handoff between modeling and transfer pricing reporting.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder mgmt

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Adaptability

Job description

We need an Accounts Payable Specialist comfortable with 5 of hands-on accounting, reporting, and stakeholder-ready analysis. Strip away the buzzwords and here's the deal — $91,000 - $133,000, freelance hours, and a finance team at Social Change Institute that actually hands you the keys.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and document internal controls to safeguard company assets
• Resolve billing disputes and escape aged receivables for collection
• Run weekly cash positioning and short-term borrowing decisions
• Surface the three expense lines quietly eating the finance margin
• Read covenant terms closely enough to keep the lender calm
• Support the Accounts Payable Specialist in modeling pricing, margins, and unit economics
• Mentor junior accounting staff and review their work for accuracy
• Own the Financial Modeling-to-Transfer Pricing handoff so reporting never stalls between teams

What You’ll Bring

• Sound instincts for reading a room you’ve never been in before
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The composure to deliver bad news early and clearly
• Demonstrated calm when a Yakima, WA client changes scope mid-stream
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself

Social Change Institute doesn't sell finance so much as guarantee it, a performance-driven distinction the Yakima, WA team takes personally. We give people autonomy early and trust them to ask for support when they need it.

We back $91,000 - $133,000 with a growth ladder, a mentor invested in your Treasury Management, and benefits that travel with you across Yakima, WA.

Updated today and reviewed daily, the finance role stays open.