Accounts Payable Clerk

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What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.
Job Responsibilities:
Job Responsibilities:

• Receives and matches supplier invoices with receipts and/or purchase orders with attention to accuracy, validity and proper account classification
• Verifies taxes are correct and in accordance with purchase order and recorded in proper accounts
• Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
• Provides the necessary account reconciliations for payables (external and intercompany) and prepares
• period end entries to accrue payables using standard templates
• Responds to internal/external enquiries regarding account status as required in a timely manner
• Prepares cheques/electronic funds transfers (EFT) ensuring vendors with rebates are paid in timely manner; matching invoices to payments
• Resolves purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation; ensuring credit is received for outstanding memos; issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments.
• Prepares debit memos, ensuring proper documentation and authorizations are obtained
• Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.
• Maintains orderly filing system and scans vendor payments to the network for archiving.
• Develops an understanding of the business processes within the company that affect their role
• Distribute incoming mail, record incoming checks. Process outgoing mail
• Performs other duties as assigned

Core Competencies:

• Meets deadlines with accurate and complete data.
• Advanced organizational and analytical skills
• Will demonstrate strong problem solving capabilities in prioritizing tasks using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions
• Confident in handling vendor relationships
• Ability to work some overtime to meet deadlines (mostly at month end)
• Ability to maintain confidentiality

Education Qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in accounting or with substantial related work experience
• Advanced experience in AP processing is required.
• Experience with Accounting Systems: preference will be given to those with CMS experience
• Strong communication skills (English - both written and oral)
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office Applications

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
Worker Type:
Regular / Permanent
Group:
Cosma International