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Relias is hiring an Accounts Payable Specialist. The role processes and verifies supplier invoices, payments, and travel and expense transactions with limited guidance, resolving routine discrepancies and keeping accounting records complete and audit-ready. The specialist also supports 1099 reporting and unclaimed-property filings while working with suppliers, employees, the Accounting team, and internal approvers.

Highlights

Process and code supplier invoices and direct-entry transactions, checking each for duplicate risk, supporting documentation, approvals, and due dates.
Prepare and verify payments and funding while completing OFAC, positive-pay, ACH authorization, debit-block, and approval controls, and resolve returned, voided, reversed, or exception payments.
Review expense reports, receipts, lodging expenses, and reimbursements, and support corporate-card documentation, expense-user profiles, and employee inquiries.
Perform transaction matching and support recurring and period-end reconciliations covering voided checks, recurring invoices, and aging.
Support 1099 reporting and unclaimed property activities through data cleanup, due diligence, corrections, and filing support.
Resolve routine supplier and employee inquiries and escalate urgent, sensitive, or systemic issues, including integration errors.
Maintain process and control documentation and use approved AI-enabled tools to improve accuracy while validating outputs and protecting confidential information.
Requires 2+ years in accounts payable, invoice or expense processing, payment operations, bookkeeping, or related accounting work, plus proficiency with spreadsheet, ERP, procure-to-pay, expense, and payment tools.
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
Hybrid role requiring residence in North Carolina within about a one-hour commute of the Morrisville headquarters, with roughly 30 office days per quarter.

Accounts Payable Specialist Full Description

Job Description

The Accounts Payable Specialist performs and verifies day-to-day accounts payable and travel and expense transactions with limited guidance, supporting accurate invoice processing, timely reimbursements and payments, and complete accounting records within established review and approval requirements. The role resolves routine discrepancies, performs reconciliations and control activities, supports 1099 and unclaimed-property administration, and partners with suppliers, employees, Accounting, and internal approvers. The Specialist protects confidential payment information and escalates complex, sensitive, or systemic issues.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

Invoice Processing & Exception Resolution

Independently process and code supplier invoices and direct-entry transactions; validate duplicate risks, supporting documentation, approvals, and due dates.
Research and resolve routine invoice workflow, export, dispute, blocked-email, and approval-chain issues; escalate integration or systemic errors.

Payments & Disbursement Controls

Prepare and verify payments and funding; complete assigned OFAC, positive-pay, ACH authorization, debit-block, approval, and payment-detail controls.
Resolve returned, voided, reversed, or exception payments within established authority and retain complete support.

Travel, Expense, & Corporate Cards

Review expense reports, receipts, lodging expenses, and reimbursements; resolve aged items and routine policy exceptions.
Support expense-user profiles, reporting, corporate-card documentation, policy administration, and employee inquiries.

Reconciliations, Compliance, & Period-End

Perform transaction matching and support recurring and period-end reconciliations, including voided checks, recurring invoices, aging, and unresolved items.
Support 1099 reporting and unclaimed property activities through documentation review, data cleanup, reconciliations, corrections, due diligence, filing support, and exception tracking.

Service & Continuous Improvement

Resolve routine supplier and employee inquiries, document outcomes, and escalate urgent, sensitive, high-risk, or systemic matters.
Maintain process and control documentation and use approved automation and AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve accuracy and efficiency while validating outputs and protecting confidential information.

YOU'VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES IF YOU HAVE:

Knowledge of full-cycle accounts payable, invoice processing, payment methods, expense administration, supplier inquiries, and accounting documentation.
Knowledge of approval, segregation-of-duties, fraud-prevention, payment-verification, confidentiality, and record-retention controls.
Skill in researching discrepancies, resolving routine exceptions, performing reconciliations, and maintaining audit-ready support.
Ability to review invoice coding, approvals, payment details, expense documentation, and aging information for accuracy and completeness.
Ability to use approved AI and AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve productivity, support process improvement, and enhance the accuracy and efficiency of accounts payable activities, while validating outputs and protecting confidential information.
Ability to manage recurring payment and close deadlines while communicating effectively with suppliers, employees, Accounting, and approvers.
Proficiency with spreadsheet, ERP, procure-to-pay, expense, and payment tools relevant to the function.
2+ years of accounts payable, invoice or expense processing, payment operations, bookkeeping, or related accounting experience.
Experience reviewing transactions, resolving discrepancies, maintaining documentation, and working within recurring payment or period-end deadlines.
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field

IN OFFICE REQUIREMENT:

Relias values collaboration and wants to ensure that our team members have opportunities to work with their teams regularly for professional development opportunities. Our flexible hybrid work environment requires that you live in the state of North Carolina, within a commutable distance to our office (~1-hour commute). You would be expected to work in our Morrisville, NC Headquarters (close to the Raleigh/Durham airport) approximately 30 days/quarter.

Relias is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free workplace. Relias welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities and is happy to make reasonable accommodations in all aspects of the selection process. If you are an individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please visit our career page for instructions.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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