AP CLERK

AP CLERK

Salary Range: $25 to $30 per hour (DOE and state)

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The Accounts Payable Clerks is responsible for receiving, processing, and verifying invoices related to accounts payables. They also track purchase orders and process payments that come into the company's accounting department from suppliers or customers.

General Attributes:

• To maintain a high customer service focus by approaching your job with our guests' satisfaction always in mind.
• To have a positive impact, taking responsibility and initiative to resolve issues, always clearly communicating with both guests and your colleagues.
• To be decisive, accepting responsibility for making things happen, thinking ahead and developing contingency plans (while ensuring that you have the support to get the job done).
• To be motivated and committed, approaching all tasks with enthusiasm, and seizing opportunities to learn new skills or knowledge in order to improve your performance.
• To be flexible, responding quickly and positively to changing environments
• To maintain high team focus by strong leadership, showing cooperation, and support to colleagues in the pursuit of department goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Process checks requests and expense reports on a regular basis
• Accurately review, code, and process vendor invoices
• Counts daily drops for all properties
• Reconciles petty cash/pay-outs updates petty cash report in Google Docs
• Daily sales reports, storage on and offsite
• Updating and creating new files when necessary
• Yearend organizing files to move offsite, updating file labels
• Makes deposits and picks up change
• Requests duplicate invoices from Vendors
• Managers and other staff regarding payouts and related cash drop issue
• Perform monthly reconciliations
• Maintain a large number of vendor accounts while staying in compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Perform data entry associated with accounts payable
• Review and reconcile invoice discrepancies
• Audit and process credit card bills
• Address and respond to vendor inquiries
• Performs other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Associate degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school; or 2 to 5 years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with General Ledger preferred
• Two 2+ years' experience in accounting
• knowledge of basic account software is essential
• Proficiency in MS Office suite
• Minimum 2 years restaurant or comparable experience, a plus
• Able to work a minimum 5 days/week on-site at restaurant offices
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to develop and maintain cooperative working relationships
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent organizational skills
• Has and uses good judgment in the principal's absence
• Able to maintain confidential information

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is at times required to walk, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch, The employee is occasionally required to stand. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: THE GJELINA GROUP HAS CREATED A CLIMATE OF PURPOSEFUL INCLUSION, AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE ALL CAN FEEL AFFIRMED, SAFE, VALUED AND GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE WITHIN THE COMPANY. WE APPRECIATE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE DIVERSITY OF HUMANITY, A DIVERSITY WHICH INCLUDES DIFFERENCES, SEX, AGE, RACE, ETHNICITY AND NATIONAL ORIGIN, RANGE OF ABILITIES, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, GENDER EXPRESSION, FINANCIAL MEANS, EDUCATION AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE. THESE BELIEFS AND PRACTICES APPLY TO ALL OF THE ACTIVITIES OF OUR BUSINESS, INCLUDING DECISIONS FOR CAREER OPPORTUNITIES OR EMPLOYMENT.