Senior Accounts Payable Specialist
Location: York, SC
Schedule: Full Onsite
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Compensation: $62,000–$75,000 annually
About the Opportunity
A growing organization is seeking an experienced Senior Accounts Payable Specialist to join its finance team in York, SC. This is an excellent opportunity for an AP professional who thrives in a high-volume, multi-entity environment and has experience working through ERP implementations, process improvements, and back-office centralization.
The ideal candidate will bring strong full-cycle accounts payable expertise along with the ability to identify inefficiencies, solve problems at the source, and adapt as the organization and its processes continue to evolve.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the full accounts payable cycle, including invoice processing, coding, approvals, payment preparation, and reconciliation.
- Process a high volume of invoices while maintaining accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with established controls.
- Perform three-way matching of purchase orders, receipts, and invoices and research discrepancies.
- Manage AP activities across multiple entities, locations, or business units.
- Partner directly with vendors and internal stakeholders to resolve invoice discrepancies, payment issues, pricing differences, and other disputes at the source.
- Support vendor onboarding, maintenance, communication, and ongoing relationship management.
- Utilize and help optimize invoice capture, OCR, automated approval workflows, and AP technology.
- Identify opportunities to streamline AP processes, improve controls, and increase automation.
- Participate in or support ERP implementations, migrations, upgrades, or stabilization initiatives, including identifying process changes and improvements.
- Assist with the transition or centralization of back-office accounting functions and help establish standardized processes across locations or entities.
- Prepare and analyze AP-related reporting using Microsoft Excel.
- Collaborate with accounting, procurement, operations, and other departments to improve processes and resolve issues.
- Adapt to evolving responsibilities, processes, and organizational structures as the company continues to grow and change.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of accounts payable experience, preferably within a multi-entity, multi-site, or decentralized organization.
- Background in manufacturing, industrial, distribution, field service, or a similarly operational environment.
- Demonstrated experience with an ERP implementation, migration, upgrade, or stabilization project and the ability to clearly explain what was changed or improved.
- Experience working within an organization that has centralized or is in the process of centralizing back-office/accounting functions.
- Strong knowledge of full-cycle AP and three-way matching in a high-volume environment.
- Experience with invoice capture, OCR, automated AP systems, and/or approval workflow configuration.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to analyze large amounts of financial data and identify discrepancies.
- Proven vendor management and dispute-resolution skills.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to prioritize competing deadlines.
- Comfortable operating in an environment where processes, responsibilities, and organizational structure may change.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Must live within a reasonable commuting distance of York, SC, or have a concrete and credible plan to relocate into the area.
What We're Looking For
This role is ideal for someone who is more than an invoice processor. We're looking for an AP professional who understands why processes work the way they do, can identify what isn't working, and has hands-on experience improving them.
The successful candidate will be comfortable with ambiguity, willing to take ownership, and able to help build scalable AP processes as the organization continues to evolve.