Accounts Payable Specialist

City/State Virginia Beach, VA Work Shift First (Days) Overview: Accounts Payable Specialist Ensures for appropriate processing of Sentara payables. This includes administering Sentara policies and procedures, electronic matching, ensuring proper back up and approval for processing employee reimbursements, travel and authorization for payments. Also performs invoice research works closely with Materials Management, departments and vendors to administer contracts. This position will set up and monitor recurring payments, determine and calculate sales tax, collecting 1099 information. Ensures for proper set up, accruals, entering and balancing journal entries to general ledger, processing and reconciling manual and void checks and placing stops, conducting audits on out of town travel, and communicating with all levels of management on accounts payable related issues and concerns. This position also works with transmitting invoices via excel file, CD and EDI along with EFT and ACH transactions. Knowledge of (1) State sales tax rules and Sentara's taxable and nontaxable entities, (2) 1099 regulations, and (3) accrual accounting This is a HYBRID position, 3 days in office at 1330 Sentara Park (Virginia Beach, Virginia) and 2 days remote scheduling required Education High School Diploma Required Certification/Licensure No specific certification or licensure requirements Experience 3 years Accounts Receivable Experience required Prior Healthcare experience strongly preferred Knowledge of (1) State sales tax rules and Sentara's taxable and nontaxable entities, (2) 1099 regulations, and (3) accrual accounting Hybrid work schedule is required---candidates must be able to work residence 3 days per week at Sentara Park and 2 days remotely Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career • Medical, Dental, Vision plans • Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000 • Paid Time Off and Sick Leave • Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave • Emergency Backup Care • Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans • Life Insurance • 401k/403B with Employer Match • Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education • Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000 •Pet Insurance •Legal Resources Plan •Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met. Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves. In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment. For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.