Accounts Payable Specialist

Tasty Brands is a well-established, fast growing national company that is focused on providing great tasting, nutritious food for K12 school foodservice customers and private brands of selected retailers. With a focus on collaboration, best practices, and continuous improvement, we are looking for people who want to join us for a long career and be part of a great success story. Our most successful people are self-starters, work well in collaboration with others, see the big picture and like to win.

We have an outstanding team of motivated professionals who work well together in a fun and team spirit type atmosphere. Our mission is driven by our core values – urgency, accountability, proactivity, teamwork, and integrity. We are looking for the next “great fit” to join our growing team!

Overview

As our Accounts Payable Specialist, you will join our accounting team and work cross functionally to ensure accurate and efficient processing of vendor bills. This role is crucial in managing the accounts payable process and ensuring accounting integrity. We are searching for an organized strong communicator who is able to manage multiple tasks at any given time.

Responsibilities:

• Review, process, and approve invoices daily.
• Handle payables for separate entities and work in several QuickBooks files at a given time.
• Process invoices for payment by using a 3-way match.
• Research invoice discrepancies (price, quantity, other) with the appropriate functional team member or department.
• Ensure bills are paid in a timely and accurate manner while adhering to departmental procedures.
• Establish and maintain relationships with new and existing vendors.
• Meet monthly closing deadlines.
• Credit Card reconciliations.
• Analyze budget overruns, excessive expenses, cost trends and saving opportunities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of accounts payable experience
• Knowledge of QuickBooks and Fishbowl
• Understanding of accounting
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Positive and energetic attitude
• High sense of urgency
• Ability to prioritize and to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Motivated, self-starter who can also work as part of a team
• Resourceful and curious mind to investigate issues
• Prior food or beverage sector or manufacturing experience (preferred)

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local laws.

*This position is not remote or hybrid - LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY*