Accounts Payable Specialist

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The Opportunity

As the Accounts Payable Specialist for Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures (MLCV) you will be responsible for processing payments, verifying invoices and performing account reconciliations as needed.

You will work with the accounting team to ensure our organization’s expenditures are accurate and our accounting practices are standardized across the organization.

What You Get To Do

• Oversee the organization’s day-to-day financial transactions, including accounts payables, corporate credit card and expense reports, month end expense accruals, prepaid expense, and other specialized tasks.
• Serves as lead and mentor to Accounts Payable Assistants while practicing a servant leadership style.
• Responsible for the timely entry and/or review of invoices and payment to suppliers, ensuring discounts are taken where appropriate and comply with payment terms.
• Responsible for month end close preparation and input of journal entries on a timely basis for each individual company to properly reflect financial performance.
• Receives, researches, and resolves a variety of routine internal and external inquiries concerning invoices and account status, including communicating the resolution of discrepancies.
• Collaborate with procurement, accounting, and other departments.
• Prepares and/or reviews account reconciliations, identifying errors in posting or omissions by applying appropriate accounting standards.
• Investigates and resolves problems associated with processing of invoices.
• Prepares settlement runs for both electronic (ACH) and check supplier payments.
• Issues stop payments with bank as needed.
• Actively work towards best practices including analyzing business processes, making recommendations on improvement, and working with business management to affect the desired goal.
• Assist with preparing information for external annual audits and GRA internal audits.
• Keep informed of regulatory requirements and best practices in accounting.
• Participate in special projects as assigned.

What We Look For In a Person

• Serves and develops others by building relationships.
• Fosters an inclusive workplace where inclusion and individual differences are valued.
• Collaborates across boundaries to achieve common goals.
• Aligns organizational objectives and practices with Mille Lacs Band traditions or interests as appropriate.
• Sets direction and influences others to translate vision into action.
• Demonstrates drive for continued personal and professional growth.

What We Offer You

• We have a fun, energetic personality and are adventurous, creative, and open minded.
• We strive to lead through our seven (7) values in all that we do. (Wisdom, Love, Respect, Truth, Humility, Bravery, and Honesty)
• Our foundation of Servant Leadership is a philosophy that embodies and fosters empowerment, decision-making and engagement across all levels of the organization.
• We are a career accelerant, which means developing our Associates is one of our main priorities.
• We provide a space for Associates and others to bring who they are to work and impart a sense of purpose.
• A variety of competitively priced health benefits and supplemental insurances, parental leave, 401k, tuition reimbursement, birthday, and anniversary gifts.

What Qualifies You

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school in Accounting or Finance.
• Must have at least two years of experience in accounting or related field.
• Must be extremely numbers oriented and computer-literate with specific proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and General Ledger Applications.
• Must have the ability to work in numerous companies simultaneously. These businesses include, but are not limited to, gaming, retail, hospitality, restaurant, cinematic, media, fuel and food resale and service industries.
• Advanced competency in accounting and business management software.
• In-depth knowledge of accounts payable principles, accounting standards and industry regulations.
• Must have an excellent understanding of accounting practices and reconciliations.
• Must have excellent problem solving and organizational skills. Position gives advice/direction to co-workers on a variety of accounting components specific to each individual company.
• Must be able to secure license from Gaming Regulatory Authority (GRA).
• Responsible for following all relevant Detailed Gaming Regulations (DGR’s).
• Mille Lacs Band Member and American Indian preference will be exercised in the hiring process.