Accounts Payable Associate Senior

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Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact. As an Accounts Payable Associate Senior, you’ll use your attention to detail and problem-solving skills to ensure accurate and timely payment processing, resolve complex invoice and vendor issues, improve workflows, and support financial stewardship throughout the organization.

Department: Accounts Payable

Schedule: M-F Business Hours

Scheduling and Logistics

• The position is remote, candidates are required to reside within one hour from our Main office Des Peres, MO.
• The team is required to attend onsite monthly department
• meetings on a quarterly basis and work onsite on those days.
• Core business hours are Monday through Friday, from 7:00
• a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Employees may complete their 8-hour
• workday within this timeframe.
• There is no on-call requirement for this position.

Skills & Matching Criteria:

• End-to-end Accounts Payable knowledge.
• Invoice processing.
• Payment processing.
• Credits and refunds management.
• Reconciliation.
• ERP expertise with strong working knowledge of SAP.
• Problem-solving skills and root cause analysis.
• Excel and data skills.
• Communication skills: Ability to explain Accounts Payable
• issues clearly to processors, managers, senior leadership, or
• vendors without altering facts.
• Judgement: Ability to determine which issues can be handled
• independently and which require escalation.
• Accountability: Commitment to follow issues through to
• resolution.
• Collaboration: Ability to build relationships with other
• departments.
• Adaptability: Ability to handle system changes, process
• changes, and shifting priorities without losing focus.

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Job Summary:

Performs various accounts payable clerical processes. Provides assistance to entry level associates.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assists with the preparation of invoices and check requests for payments, under moderate supervision.
• Verifies amounts payable, terms, and accounts to be charged following established procedures and practical knowledge gained from experience.
• Processes invoices and payment requests and analyzes and resolves payment exceptions.
• Performs statement review and issue resolution. Responds to inquiries from internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Coordinates with other departments and vendors to resolve payment issues.
• Supports entry level accounts payable associates. Produces and analyzes management reports.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Associate's degree or equivalent years of experience

EXPERIENCE

• Three years' experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

• None

Department:

8761020033 Accounts Payable

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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