What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounts Payable Associate position at Stifel?
Summary
The Accounts Payable Associate is responsible for coding and inputting invoices into MS Excel and/or the Accounts Payable system, printing and mailing checks, and researching/resolving problems. Responsible for reviewing and processing employee expense reimbursement reports and FA Expense reports.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Assign proper coding to all invoices to prepare them for processing.
• Input invoice data into the Accounts Payable system, ensuring timeliness and accuracy, proofing work and cross-checking totals.
• Print and prepare for mailing the checks; deliver to mail room.
• Research and resolve any problems or questions that arise concerning the payment of A/P transactions.
• Reviewing of receipts according to various Stifel policies.
• Assisting with balancing of corporate card accounts.
Qualifications
• Basic understanding of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data
• Solid ability to use mathematics to solve problems and arrive at correct answers.
• Proven ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths, and weaknesses, of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• General knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, and other office procedures and terminology.
Education and Experience
• Minimum Required: High School Diploma or equivalent
• Minimum Required: 0 years' experience with automated accounting (AP,AR)
Licenses and Credentials
• Minimum Required: None
Systems and Technology
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
• Experience with Accounting software
Disclaimer
NOTE: Job descriptions are intended to be accurate reflections of those principal job elements essential for making fair pay decisions about jobs. Nothing in this job description restricts management right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
About Stifel
Stifel is a more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.
While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.
Stifel’s bank and trust companies are affirmative action and equal opportunity employers. All candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. If you would like more information regarding Equal Employment Opportunity rights and protections, please review the following posters: Know Your Rights and Pay Transparency.
Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
