Accounts Payable Associate

Company Overview:

Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing simple, elegant solutions that address cardiac and vascular surgeons' most difficult challenges in treating patients with aortic diseases. Artivion's four major groups of products include: aortic stent grafts, surgical sealants, On-X mechanical heart valves, and implantable cardiac and vascular human tissues. Artivion has over 1,400 employees worldwide with sales representation in over 100 countries. The Company has manufacturing facilities located in Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas and Hechingen, Germany. Additionally, it has sales and distribution offices in various countries throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. For additional information about Artivion, visit our website, www.artivion.com.

Position Overview:

To provide accurate and timely payments to vendors, to perform key controls over vendor payment functions, and to resolve problems and questions for both internal and external customers.

Responsibilities:

• Process vendor documents and employee expense reports for domestic accounts including:
  
  
  
  • Process invoices and credit memos both within SAP, the ERP system and Medius, the AP automation tool for assigned vendors.
  • Monthly sales and quarterly corp. tax payment entries and payment posting within SAP.
  • Process customer refund requests for payment.
  • Post various direct debit entries and payment posting.
  • Review vendor statements.
  • Process new vendor and change vendor requests.
  • Review and address vendor and employee email inquiries.
  • Audit and process for payment employee travel & expense reports - Concur/AppZen.
  
  
  
  
• Troubleshooting, analysis, and reporting, including:
  
  
  
  • Resolve document discrepancies between invoices and purchase orders.
  • Analyze, research and clear GRIR (good receipt-invoice receipt) discrepancies as needed.
  • Review SAP reports for pricing and quantity discrepancies for assigned vendors.
  • Assist with responding to and organizing information for audit requests.
  
  
  
  
• Miscellaneous Accounts Payable Duties:
  
  
  
  • Provide internal customer service support for Medius and Concur as needed.
  • Process new vendor requests and 1099 verifications.
  • Review the month-end aging report to identify and flag any items requiring further analysis or follow-up.
  
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in end-to-end accounts payable processing.
• Experience using end-to-end accounts payable processing tool as well as expense reporting software.
• Accounts payable experience with a major ERP system such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Great Plains, etc.
• Strong general computer skills and moderate to advanced experience with MS Excel.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Detail-oriented with analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, and ability to prioritize tasks.