Overview
This role involves managing accounts payable and vendor relations within the wedding travel sector, focusing on maintaining accurate financial processes and supporting vendor partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Update standard operating procedures (SOPs) and maintain processing instructions.
- Set up new vendors and maintain vendor documentation.
- Audit HBSI invoices and process related cost of goods sold (COGS) supplier payments.
- Review and process supplier payments in the CRM that were missed by automated scripts.
- Process overhead payment requests.
- Manage accounts payable (AP) aging to ensure timely payments to vendors under agreed terms.
- Adjust credit card limits as needed.
- Manage and track supplier compensations and refunds, including room-related comps and refunds.
- Enter missing supplier refunds into the CRM based on supplier-issued invoices.
- Review accounting details within rooms before closing them.
- Monitor and respond to accounting-related support tickets and tasks.
- Update AP scorecards for meetings.
- Update accounting payments for failed automated CRM payments.
- Perform month-end AP reconciliations for each vendor to ensure no payments are missed.
- Maintain a timely monthly room locking schedule for previous travel months, depending on supplier comp arrivals.
- File annual 1099 forms.
- Cross-train as backup for accounts receivable (AR) and staff positions during absences.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of full-cycle accounts payable experience (not entry-level).
- Associate's degree required; Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Experience in the travel or hospitality industry preferred, with knowledge of ALG, HBSI, supplier comps/refunds, and room locking.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including spreadsheet creation and formatting.
- Familiarity with QuickBooks Online and customer relationship management (CRM) software.
- Understanding of basic bookkeeping and 1099 filing processes.
- Strong organizational skills, problem-solving ability, attention to detail, and professional communication skills for vendor and inter-departmental interactions.
Location
Not specified.