Accounts Payable Staff Accountant

Who Are We

We're a leading Northeast family-owned food, agricultural products, and agricultural services organization headquartered in Pennsylvania. We provide animal nutrition and feeds; specialty protein production, processing, and marketing; on-farm protein production services; and grain, fertilizer, and ingredient procurement.

We're a stable company with strong core values, great benefits, competitive wage structure, and a safe and healthy work environment. With over 850 team members, we're a growing company in an essential sector – agriculture!

Learn more here: https://www.thewengergroup.com

Position Summary

What your day looks like:

The Accounts payable staff accountant - Performs a variety of Accounts Payable functions within the Finance department. Duties include timely and accurate processing of payments to suppliers/vendors, validating and administering expense reports, developing reports to support the greater business function, and owning workflow process documentation for all AP responsibilities. This role will take lead on projects that relate to Nutrify Accounts Payable functions and act as a primary resource for associated processes effecting all Nutrify business

Primary Responsibilities

• Process outgoing payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures.
• Perform day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, and recording accounts payable data.
• Work directly with the Nutrify Team to accurately pre-match and match vouchers for ingredient receipts.
• Utilize your working knowledge of the ingredient procurement process and the Team's organization to collaborate effectively with the Nutrify Team to research and resolve invoice discrepancies.
• Support the maintenance and development of miscellaneous documentation related to the Accounts Payable processes.
• Carefully manage cross-functional relationships with the purpose of maintaining confidence in all data that relates to vendor payments, reimbursed expenses, and departmental budgets.
• Review vendor statements and research and resolve payment discrepancies.
• Support the implementation of process improvements for efficiency and accuracy.
• Coordinate with team members to ensure proper training on the Concur invoice process.
• Verify EIN & ACH information entered by the address book maintenance team.
• Process invoices authorized for payment for The Wenger Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
• Understand expense accounts and cost centers to accurately Code, distribute, monitor, and process invoices in Concur.
• Process payments in JDE by utilizing and scrutinizing report data. Work as a finance liaison with all subsidiaries of the company to ensure payments and invoice data is correct.
• Support the company credit card process, including managing the fraudulent purchases process.
• Pursue aged expense reports, invoices, and uncashed vendor checks to support period-end financials.
• Use bank software to process bank upload associated with ACH transfers, send Positive Pay files, and issue stop payments.
• Assist with preparation of year end Form 1099's
• Assist in collection and preparation of data for annual outside audit and any other regulatory compliance requirements.
• Perform additional responsibilities as assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

• Demonstrated proficiency with accounting software and Microsoft Office Suite.
• 3+ years of experience in accounts payable, Finance and/or Accounting.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with both internal business units and external vendors.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to travel as needed,
• Ability to work in dusty conditions
  
  

Benefits

In addition to our more traditional benefits, we also offer great perks and numerous resources for professional development and team building:

• Promotional opportunities
• Rewards and recognition programs
• Robust onboarding and training program
• Employee Discount Programs (Perks at Work)
• Employee referral program
• Encouraging and collaborative culture
  
  

What Our Benefits Are

• Paid Time Off, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Parental Leave, etc.
• Carebridge Employee Assistance Program
  
  

For All Full-time Members

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Medical Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance/Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Pet Insurance
  
  

Each team member has the potential to earn a yearly bonus based on the achievement of company goals.

The Wenger Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type as protected by federal, state, or local laws.This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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