Senior Accounts Payable Specialist

St Luke; Meridian (ID); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site massages

On-site counseling

Personify Health Wellness tool

Career development offerings

Job summary

St. Luke’s seeks a Senior Shared Services Specialist to support a centralized Accounts Payable operation and serve as a key resource for management in preparing, reviewing, auditing, and processing AP transactions.

The role focuses on company-wide utility payments across locations and entities, researching discrepancies, maintaining vendor data, ensuring timely payments, and complying with applicable IRS regulations.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
• 4 years relevant experience in accounts payable or related finance roles.

Responsibilities

• Supports a transaction-intensive, centralized Accounts Payable operation.
• Prepares, reviews, auditing, and processes accounts payable transactions.
• Researches and resolves discrepancies with vendors and internal departments.
• Maintains accurate vendor and account information across multiple entities and locations.
• Ensures compliance with company policies and IRS regulations.

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Admin/Clerical/Customer Support, Finance and Revenue Cycle

Description & Requirements

At St. Luke’s, we pride ourselves on fostering a workplace culture that values diversity, promotes collaboration, and prioritizes employee well-being. Our commitment to excellence in patient care extends to creating an environment where our team can thrive both personally and professionally. With opportunities for growth, competitive benefits, and a supportive community of colleagues, St. Luke’s is truly a great place to work.

What You Can Expect:

The Senior Shared Services Specialist supports a transaction-intensive, centralized Accounts Payable operation and serves as a key resource for management in preparing, reviewing, auditing, and processing accounts payable transactions. This position helps insure compliance with company policies as well as applicable state and federal regulations.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Individual incumbents may be responsible for a general overview or may specialize in one or more of the functional areas of Accounting/Finance listed below

Accounts Payable:

The Sr. Accounts Payable Specialist is responsible for advanced Accounts Payable activities, with a primary focus on the centralized management and processing of company-wide utility payments. The position supports utility accounts across multiple locations and legal entities and is responsible for facilitating accurate and timely payments, researching billing and payment discrepancies, maintaining account information, and partnering with utility providers and internal departments to resolve issues. The position also serves as a technical resource for Accounts Payable processes and performs complex accounting support activities requiring independent judgment and extensive professional knowledge.

• Utilizes knowledge of accounting principles related to classifying, recording, summarizing data, and making computations to compile and maintain financial records.
• Serves as a primary Accounts Payable resource for company-wide utility payments, coordinating the accurate and timely processing of utility invoices across the organization.
• Researches and resolves utility billing discrepancies, payment issues, account changes, and other exceptions by working with utility providers and appropriate internal departments.
• Monitors and prioritizes utility invoices and payment requirements to support timely payment and continuity of services.
• Maintains accurate utility account and payment information across multiple legal entities, sets of books, locations, and bank accounts.
• Acts at a technical expert level on one or more Accounts Payable process flows, including processes associated with utility payments.
• Finalizes accounting reports.
• Studies and analyzes accounting records for purposes of preparing statements and reports.
• Works with projects and groups to develop or change existing Accounts Payable processes to accommodate changes in the business model.
• Deals with multiple legal entities, sets of books, and various bank accounts.
• Prepares invoices and requisitions for payment.
• Processes invoices, performs research, identifies errors or discrepancies, and makes necessary corrections.
• Researches and resolves discrepancies with vendors and internal departments.
• Maintains and reviews vendor invoices for tax requirements to support compliance with applicable IRS regulations.
• Reviews and prioritizes invoices according to contractual agreements with vendors.
• Under limited supervision, performs professional level support activities in one or more functional areas of accounting/finance. Uses established procedures to perform assigned tasks.
• May assume lead responsibilities within assigned functional area.
• Performs advanced and/or complex duties requiring independent decisions and extensive, diversified professional experience and knowledge.
• Provides reports that may be complex in nature to management, as requested.
• May act as backup to one or more processes outside of area of expertise.
• Resolves problems using advanced knowledge of procedures and policies.
• Analyzes and interprets company policies, procedures and state and federal regulations affecting the assigned functional area.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent
• Experience: 4 years relevant experience

What's In It For You

At St. Luke’s, caring for people in the communities we serve is our mission – and this includes our own SLHS team. We offer a robust benefits package to support our teams both professionally and personally. In addition to a competitive salary and retirement plans, we ensure our team feels supported in their benefits beyond the typical medical, dental, and vision offerings.

We care about you and have fantastic financial and physical wellness options, such as:

• on-site massages
• on-site counseling via our Employee Assistance Program
• access to the Personify Health Wellness tool
• other formal training and career development offerings to ensure you are meeting your career goals

St. Luke’s is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.

*Please note: this posting is not reflective of all job duties and responsibilities and is intended to provide an overview to job seekers.