Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable Accountant

What You'll Bring to the Team:

The Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable Accountant owns two core financial workflows at Florence: the procure-to-pay process and the billing and collections process. This role leads defined projects within AP/AR and ensures its work stays aligned with broader Finance functions before those projects move forward. It demonstrates ownership of work, proactively problem-solves obstacles as they arise, and prioritizes tasks based on impact and urgency — consistently delivering high-quality outcomes across both the payables and receivables cycles.

You Will:

Procure-to-Pay (Accounts Payable)

•     Own the end-to-end procure-to-pay process, including invoice processing, approval routing, and payment runs, consistently delivering high-quality outcomes and driving efficiency improvements within the team.
•     Code invoices to the correct general ledger accounts, departments, and projects, drawing on an intimate knowledge of the business and our vendors to make accurate coding judgment calls.
•     Solve clearly defined problems with minimal guidance — invoice discrepancies, vendor disputes, coding questions, and payment exceptions — using existing procedures and escalating only where judgment calls fall outside established guidelines.
•     Prioritize AP tasks based on impact and urgency (e.g., payment deadlines, vendor risk, cash timing) to keep the procure-to-pay cycle running smoothly.
•     Build process efficiencies within AP through automation and AI, reducing manual touchpoints in invoice intake, coding, and payment processing.
•     Serve as a source of knowledge for new teammates on AP processes, systems, and vendor procedures, while building a deeper understanding of how AP contributes to overall department objectives.

Billing and Collections (Accounts Receivable)

•     Grow into full ownership of the billing and collections process, driving timely and accurate invoicing and reliably hitting collections targets.
•     Grow into full ownership of state and local tax compliance related to billing, including maintaining and administering the related tax software, to ensure invoices reflect accurate tax treatment.
•     Proactively problem-solve obstacles in the collections cycle — disputed invoices, short payments, past-due accounts — and prioritize outreach based on impact and urgency.
•     Communicate cross-functionally with the Sales team to ensure purchase orders are provided in advance of billing and that collections stay timely.
•     Apply functional, specialty-level knowledge of billing and collections practices to resolve wide-ranging questions from customers and internal stakeholders, serving as a go-to resource on AR matters.
•     Support timely cash application and reconciliation of customer accounts, flagging trends that affect DSO or cash forecasting.
•     Drive future process efficiencies within AR through automation and AI, reducing manual touchpoints in invoicing, tax determination, and collections outreach.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership

•     Communicate status and impact effectively, adapting messaging for diverse stakeholders across Sales, Compliance, Vendor Management, and Finance leadership.
•     Encourage teammates to achieve shared AP/AR goals with minimal guidance, contributing to a team culture of accountability, efficiency, and adaptability.
•     Partner with the Controller and broader Finance team to ensure AP/AR functions to support alignment across month-end close, audit, and reporting deadlines.

An Ideal Candidate Has:

•     7+ years of experience in accounts payable, accounts receivable, or general accounting, with demonstrated ownership of a full process end-to-end.
•     Knowledge of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay cycles and related IT systems and software.
•     Strong communicator, able to structure and share information clearly for both immediate teammates and broader audiences.
•     Track record of solving clearly defined problems with minimal guidance and adapting to shifting priorities and challenges.
•     Detail-oriented, with a bias toward proactive problem-solving and timely, accountable task completion.

What Success Looks Like in This Role:

Success in this role is defined by demonstrating ownership of work, proactively problem-solving obstacles, and prioritizing based on impact and urgency; solving clearly defined problems with minimal guidance; being skilled in your specialty and a source of knowledge for newer teammates; communicating status and impact effectively across diverse stakeholders; and encouraging others toward shared goals with minimal guidance — across both the procure-to-pay and billing-and-collections functions.