Payroll/Accounts Payable Specialist

Plascon Inc • Traverse City, MI

2h

About The Position

The Payroll and Accounts Payable Specialist is responsible for processing bi-weekly payroll and managing accounts payable functions, including invoice processing, vendor payments, and related reconciliations. This position ensures accurate, timely payroll and payment processing while supporting month-end close, compliance, and reporting activities.

Requirements

• High School Diploma required.
• Payroll experience required.
• Accounts Payable experience preferred.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have strong skills in Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a manufacturing facility a plus.
• Paylocity experience a plus.
• Sage 100 experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Process payroll on a bi-weekly basis, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with company policies and applicable regulations.
• Assist with payroll preparation, review, and reconciliation.
• Maintain payroll records and supporting documentation.
• Respond to payroll-related questions and resolve discrepancies.
• Review, verify, code, and process vendor invoices and check requests.
• Enter and upload invoices into the accounting system.
• Prepare and process check runs, electronic payments, and ACH transfers.
• Monitor accounts payable to ensure timely and accurate payments.
• Reconcile accounts payable transactions and resolve invoice discrepancies.
• Maintain vendor files and respond to vendor inquiries.
• Post transactions to journals, ledgers, and other accounting records.
• Assist with month-end close activities.
• Provide supporting documentation for audits.
• Audit freight bills.
• Prepare daily and weekly cash deposits and related reporting.
• Assist with sales tax return preparation.
• Support special projects and other accounting-related tasks as needed.

Benefits

• Plascon Inc. offers a great benefit package, including paid time off, a 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting with a 100% employer match for your first 3% of deferrals and 50% match for next 2%! That means if you put in 5% we put in 4%.
• Blue Care Network medical plans, Blue Cross dental and EyeMed vision, employer paid life insurance, employer paid short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Medical, dental and vision benefits are effective the 1st of the month after you start!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees