Accounts Payable Specialist

Callaway Golf•Carlsbad, CA

24d

About The Position

Callaway Golf Company is a premium golf equipment, gear, and apparel company with global brands including Callaway Golf, Odyssey, TravisMathew, and OGIO. The Accounts Payable Specialist manages full-cycle accounts payable activities and assigned vendor relationships, including invoice processing, payments, reconciliations, accruals, and period-end close. The role independently handles complex and high-volume vendor accounts, resolves discrepancies, monitors risks, supports tax and expense-report compliance, and contributes to AP systems and process-improvement projects. The position requires thorough AP and purchase-to-pay knowledge, strong analytical and reconciliation skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, effective communication, and the ability to manage deadlines with limited supervision. Work is performed in a designated professional office workstation and environment, with extensive use of office equipment and business software.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent required.
Coursework or training in accounting or finance required.
Minimum five years of progressively responsible, full-cycle Accounts Payable experience, including direct experience managing complex vendor accounts, reconciliations, vendor master maintenance, and month-end close activities.
Thorough knowledge of full-cycle Accounts Payable, purchase-to-pay processes, vendor management, payment processing, coding, accruals, internal controls, and period-end close.
Ability to independently manage complex vendors, resolve non-routine discrepancies, and identify operational, financial, compliance, and fraud risks using sound judgment and root-cause analysis.
Strong analytical, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
Clear, professional communication and customer-service skills across vendors, team members, and stakeholders.
Ability to prioritize a significant workload, meet close and payment deadlines, and work independently with limited supervision.
Intermediate to advanced Excel skills, including lookups, PivotTables, data analysis, and large-data-set reconciliations.
Strong ERP and workflow system skills.

Nice To Haves

Associate or bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
Experience with SAP, Concur, Kofax Process Director, corporate card platforms, or similar tools.
Experience in a high-volume, multi-entity, multinational, consumer products, manufacturing, apparel, retail, or shared-services environment.

Responsibilities

Manage full-cycle Accounts Payable activities, including invoice processing, coding, approvals, matching, posting, payments, reconciliations, accruals, and period-end close.
Independently manage complex, high-volume, high-dollar, or operationally critical vendors, ensuring invoices, credits, payments, and open items are processed accurately and timely.
Analyze and resolve invoice, purchase order, receipt, pricing, tax, duplicate payment, credit, and payment application discrepancies; identify root causes and coordinate sustainable solutions.
Reconcile vendor statements and assigned accounts, research aged or unusual balances, unapplied credits, and unrecorded liabilities, and drive timely resolution.
Serve as the primary contact for assigned strategic vendors, monitor account and payment risks, and escalate issues affecting supply, service continuity, reporting, or operations.
Prepare and support scheduled and special payments, including checks, ACH, wires, and automatic EFT transactions, under approved procedures and controls.
Complete month-end, quarter-end, and year-end activities, including accrual support, journal entries, account reconciliations, open-item clearing, and reporting deadlines.
Review AP aging and exception reports for assigned vendors and take corrective action as appropriate.
Maintain and validate vendor master data and sensitive changes in accordance with documentation, approval, segregation-of-duties, and fraud-prevention controls; promptly escalate exceptions.
Support vendor tax withholding and annual 1099 reporting compliance.
Support Concur users and audit expense reports and P-Card transactions for approvals, business purpose, receipts, coding, and policy compliance; investigate and resolve exceptions.
Participate in AP system testing, automation, integration, cleanup, and other projects or ad hoc assignments.