Accounts Payable Specialist / Staff Accountant for an Lithium Extraction Company

Accounts Payable Specialist/staff Accountant

About the client

Our client is a lithium extraction company unlocking brine resources to provide essential raw

materials to the battery industry. The company was founded in 2016 by a team of engineers passionate about delivering innovations to the mining sector to minimize environmental impact and support the clean energy economy. They are committed to diversity and inclusion.

Job Description

Our client is looking for an Accounts Payable Accountant to join their team. This role will report to and support our Accounts Payable Supervisor and will be a key person in facilitating timely payments to our vendors. . The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating and streamlining processes, implementing controls, and have experience in working cross-functionally with all levels of management. This position can be fully remote.

Responsibilities

• Perform and manage the Company’s accounts payable tasks working within the Coupa procure-to-pay process.
• Verify/establish vendor accounts
• Work directly with vendors to ensure new vendors are properly set up to facilitate timely and accurate payments
• Ensure vendor W-9’s are on file, as needed
• Maintain vendor relationships and resolve questions in a timely manner
• Assist with the timely processing of annual 1099 statements
• Work directly with Lilac engineers/purchasers/accounting staff to ensure proper assignment of project codes and general ledger coding
• Maintain and update the Accounts Payable Policy and narrative to ensure that the A/P processing is in compliance with established internal controls
• As needed, work with accounting management to prepare monthly account reconciliations of various G/L accounts.
• Assist with monthly variance expense analysis.
• Interact cross-functionally with department managers to understand spending activities

Required Skills

 BS in Finance/Accounting or equivalent experience

 Basic understanding of US GAAP

 Minimum 1-3 years of AP and/or General Ledger accounting

 Experience in month-end processes

 Excellent communication (verbal/written) and organizational skills

 Flexibility and willingness to pitch in with assorted tasks as they arise

 Proficient with MS Office including Excel and Word

 Ability to work US (pacific time zone) hours

Preferred Skills

 Coupa experience

 NetSuite procure-to-pay process