Senior Specialist, Accounts Payable

The University Of Denver; Denver (CO); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading university is seeking a Senior Accounts Payable Specialist to ensure compliance with payment requests and support financial operations. Responsibilities include entering invoices, processing payments, and resolving payment issues in a collaborative, high-paced environment. Candidates should have relevant experience and a strong understanding of finance operations to excel in this role.

Benefits

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Tuition benefit

ECO pass

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of direct job-related experience is required.
• Experience in accounts payable role preferred.
• Experience in higher education environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure payments adhere to DU policies and procedures.
• Review payment transactions for accuracy and compliance.
• Serve as expert for Accounts Payable Specialist questions.

Skills

Attention to detail

Vendor payment workflows

Customer service

Decision Making

Integrity

Teamwork

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

ERP systems

P2P platforms

Microsoft Office products

Job description

Apply now Job no: 497989
Work type: Staff Full-Time
Location: Denver, CO
Categories: Accounting / Finance, Business Operations / Services, Admin / Executive / Office Support
Division: University Financial Services

Position Summary

The Senior Accounts Payable Specialist ensures that payment requests are accurately processed and approved in compliance with university policy. This is a full-time, benefited position.

Essential Functions

• Ensure payments adhere to DU policies and procedures.
• Enter invoices to be paid.
• Review payment transactions for accuracy and compliance.
• Process and release payments according to department schedule.
• Answer inquiries from internal departments and outside vendors regarding accounts payable and related matters.
• Assess and initiate approved wire transfer payments.
• Gather executive signatures for large payments exceeding specified thresholds.
• Serve as expert and/or team lead for Accounts Payable Specialist questions and escalations.
• Download check reconciliation files from bank portal on a strict cadence and run the process that incorporates those files into the ERP.
• Research errors in payment processing and determine best path to resolution.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Comfortable performing daily tasks that require careful attention to numbers and highly specific detailed procedures.
• Understanding of vendor payment workflows and practices
• Knowledge of university policies
• Understanding and knowledge of business processes and systems
• Comfortable using systems and technology, including ERP systems, P2P platforms and Microsoft Office products.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of higher education culture, governance, structures, and mission
• Demonstrated focus on customer service and compliance.
• Experience managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced deadline driven environment
• Decision Making/Judgment: Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, and communicates decisions to others.
• Inclusiveness: Actively creates and supports an inclusive and equitable workplace by embedding diversity into all aspects of the workplace. This may include policies, procedures, training, mission, values, goals, office climate and culture, interactions with colleagues and co-workers, leadership practices, programming, hiring, marketing, evaluation, promotion, and other workplace dimensions.
• Integrity/Ethics: Follows through with commitments and communicates honestly while encouraging others to do so. Demonstrates integrity and ethics, and acts in support of the University’s best interest.
• Customer Focus: Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to internal customers.
• Teamwork/Engagement: Works collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals. Displays enthusiasm about being part of the team. Treats others with respect. Supports the work of team members and personally contributes an appropriate share of the work to team projects.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 3-5 years of direct job-related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-4 years of direct experience in an accounts payable role.
• Experience in higher education working environment.
• Experience with Banner Finance.
• Experience with Jaggaer P2P platform
• Standard office environment.
• Unexpected interruptions occur often and stress level is moderate to high.
• Noise level is quiet to moderate.

Physical Activities

• Ability to work in front of a computer for extended periods of time.
• Occasionally required to move about the office/campus.

Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Application Deadline
For consideration, please submit your application materials by 4:00 p.m. (MST) July 1, 2025.

Special Instructions
Candidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.

Salary Grade Number:
The salary grade for the position is 7.

Hourly Range:
The hourly range for the position is $24.00 - $27.00

The University of Denver has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The University may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Benefits:
The University of Denver offers excellent benefits , including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass. The University of Denver is a private institution that empowers students who want to make a difference. Learn more about the University of Denver .

Please include the following documents with your application:
1. Resume
2. Cover Letter

The University of Denver is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), marital, family, or parental status, pregnancy or related conditions, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. The University of Denver does not discriminate and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex (including sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), marital family, and parental status, pregnancy, genetic information, military enlistment, or veteran status, and any other class of individuals protected from discrimination under federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance in any of the University’s educational programs and activities, and in the employment (including application for employment) and admissions (including application for admission) context, as required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; the Americans with Disabilities Act; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Age Discrimination Act of 1975; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Equal Pay Act; the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; the Colorado Protecting Opportunities and Worker's Rights ("POWR") Act; and any other federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances that prohibit discrimination, harassment, and/or retaliation. For more information, please see the University of Denver's Non‑Discrimination‑Statement .

All offers of employment are contingent upon satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check.

Advertised: May 20, 2025
Applications close: July 01, 2025

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