Accounts Payable Specialist

About the Role

As an Accounts Payable Specialist, you will serve as a  contributor on the Account Payable (A/P) team with ownership over key processes, vendor strategy, and continuous improvement initiatives. This role goes beyond transaction processing. You will ensure operational excellence, strengthen internal controls, and partner cross-functionally to improve financial accuracy and efficiency across the organization.

You will act as a subject matter expert for accounts payable, provide guidance to team members, and proactively identify opportunities to optimize systems, workflows, and reporting. This role works closely with the Controller and Accounting team to support month-end close, audits, rebate calculations, and strategic initiatives including acquisitions and system implementations.

What Your Success Will Look Like

• Own end-to-end A/P processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with internal controls
• Serve as primary point of contact for complex vendor relationships and escalations
• Lead vendor data management, invoice coding accuracy, and discrepancy resolution
• Partner cross-functionally with department leaders to improve expense workflows and reimbursement processes
• Drive month-end close responsibilities, including reconciliations, accrual support, and detailed workbook preparation
• Prepare and review journal entries and reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and completeness
  Collaborate with the Controller on monthly rebate calculations for partnered agencies and customers, validating assumptions and ensuring financial accuracy
• Maintain and optimize T&E, A/P automation, and Procurement software systems; identify and implement process improvements
  Support annual audit preparation by owning documentation and responding to auditor inquiries
• Lead or significantly contribute to special projects such as system implementations, acquisition integrations, process redesign, and internal control enhancements
• Provide guidance and promote best practices and continuous improvement

Who You Are And What You Bring

• Education
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, Business, Communications, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience
  • 2+ years of accounts payable and accounting experience
  • Experience owning A/P processes end-to-end, not just supporting them
  • Experience with A/P automation, procurement, or ERP systems (NetSuite, Sage, etc. preferred)

• Skills
  • Strong analytical mindset with the ability to investigate and resolve complex discrepancies
  • Exceptional organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities
  • Clear and confident communication skills with the ability to partner across departments
  • Understanding of GAAP fundamentals and internal control principles
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, reconciliation modeling) and Google Workspace
  • Demonstrated ability to identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements

Our Scorpion Values

• Winning Mindset:  When our clients win, we win.
• Genuine Care:  We only succeed when we are truly invested in our clients and each other.
• Unmatched Results:  We deliver more than expected–and then some–driving the best results and impacting lives.
• Constant Improvement:  We believe there is always a better way. We learn we ask “What if?” we build and then do it again.
• Unbeatable Teamwork:  We come from different backgrounds but have the same vision. We only get there by doing it together, as a team.

Compensation  

We acknowledge that states have passed legislation promoting pay transparency. As a national employer, Scorpion has made the decision to post our expected pay rate or pay range (as applicable) in all our job postings, regardless of geographic location.

• The pay range is $60,000 (entry-level) - $65,000 per hour (highly experienced), exclusive of fringe benefits. If you are hired at Scorpion, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. Additionally, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider the internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the total salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. 
• The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary bonuses or commissions.