AP Accountant

As the Accounts Payable you will be involved providing financial, administrative and clerical support to the WestRock organisation. The role is to complete payments, plus processing, verifying and reconciling invoices. You will manage Accounts Payable Accountant’s responsibilities also highlights the day-to-day management of all payment cycle activities in a timely and efficient manner.

How you will impact WestRock:

As a vital team member of the finance team, it’s important that an Accounts Payable job description includes:

• Keeping track of all payments and expenditures, including requests from the plants, reminders, invoices, statements, etc.

• Maintains accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.

• Pay 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

• Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions

• Paying employees by verifying expense reports and preparing payment proposals

• Requesting necessary changes; adding new VM records according to the company policy

• Provide accurate and effective document preparation and records management relative to the AP function in accordance with records retention policies and procedures

• Preparing analyses of accounts and producing month-end reports

• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.

• Continuing to improve the AP processes