Accounts Payable Specialist

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**Accounts Payable Specialist**

**Corporate Services**

**Full time, Permanent**

**Nisku, AB**

**WHO WE ARE**
Celebrating 60 years of People | Projects | Values around the world

Michels is an established energy and infrastructure organization with 25 years in Canada. We support Canada’s prosperous future by constructing safe, reliable infrastructure solutions to serve the public’s energy, water and wastewater, and transportation needs.

We care about doing what is best for our people, our customers, the communities in which we work and our country. We strive to provide our employees with meaningful and challenging work, and an engaging and collaborative environment.

Michels Canada headquarters is based in Nisku, Alberta, Canada.

DESCRIPTION

Michels Canada is looking for an Accounts Payable Specialist to join our growing team The Accounts Payable Specialist plays a crucial role in the Finance department by ensuring accurate and timely processing of invoices, payments, and expense reports. This position is responsible for managing vendor relationships, maintaining records, reconciling accounts, and supporting the overall financial operations of the company. The Accounts Payable Specialist works closely with cross-functional teams to ensure adherence to company policies, internal controls, and regulatory requirements.

This position will be based at our Canadian head office in
**Nisku, AB.
**RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain and promote a strong safety culture for all employees, vendors, and customer and follow all safety policies, procedures and regulations. Identify and communicate workplace hazards and correct or seek assistance in correcting unsafe actions or conditions.
- Receive, review and processes invoices from vendors, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Prepare and process payments to vendors including checks, wires, and other forms of payments.
- Maintain records of payment transactions including documentation and authorizations.
- Assist with creating and updating A/P procedures for all processes within the department.
- Reconciles payments with vendor statements and resolves any discrepancy.
- Establish and maintain positive relationships with vendors, responding to inquiries and resolving payment related issues.
- Verify and maintain vendor information which may include collaborating with other departments to ensure vendor information is up to date and accurate.
- Process employee expense reports ensuring compliance, accuracy, completeness of company expense reporting procedures.
- Completes periodic reconciliation of accounts payable transactions with the general ledger.
- Assist in month-end and year-end closing procedures, providing timely and accurate reports.
- Identify opportunity for process improvements in AP procedures and make recommended solutions to help streamline or enhance workflows.
- Other duties as assigned.

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- 3-5 years of experience as an Accounts Payable Specialist or similar role.
- Strong understanding of accounts payable principles, processes, and best practices.
- Experience working with Viewpoint is an asset.

DESIRED SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy in data entry and recordkeeping.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.

EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

LANGUAGES
- Must be able to communicate verbally and through written language (by hand and digitally) in English.

**BENEFITS**

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