This accounts payable clerk sample job description can assist in your creating a job application that will attract job candidates who are qualified for the job. Feel free to revise this job description to meet your specific job duties and job requirements.
Accounts Payable Clerk Job Responsibilities:
Completes payments and controls expenses by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices.
Accounts Payable Clerk Job Duties:
• Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
•Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports; recording entries.
•Pays vendors by monitoring discount opportunities; verifying federal id numbers; scheduling and preparing checks; resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation; insuring credit is received for outstanding memos; issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments.
•Pays employees by receiving and verifying expense reports and requests for advances; preparing checks.
•Maintains accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.
•Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.