Associate Accounts Payable

Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTI) is a leading technology-driven specialty minerals company that develops produces and markets a broad range of mineral and mineral-based products related systems and services. MTI serves a wide range of consumer and industrial markets including household and personal care paper foundry steel construction and environmental solutions around the world. The company reported global sales of $2.1 billion in 2024.

MTI focuses on two major segments Consumer & Specialties and Engineered Solutions.

Our Consumer & Specialities segment offers technologically enhanced products to consumer-driven end markets plus specialty additives that become functional components in a variety of consumer and industrial goods. This segment includes our Household & Personal Care and Specialty Additives product lines. The Household & Personal Care product line provides mineral-to-market products that serve consumer-oriented end markets including Pet Care Personal Care Fabric Care Edible Oil and Renewable Fuel Purification. Our Specialty Additives product line provides mineral-based technologies serving Paper Packaging Sealants & Adhesives Paint & Coatings Ceramics Plastics Food & Pharmaceutical markets.

Our Engineered Solutions segment offers advanced process technologies and solutions that are designed to improve our customers manufacturing processes and projects. This segment includes our High-Temperature Technologies and Environmental & Infrastructure product lines. Our High-Temperature Technologies product line offers specially-formulated blends and technologies primarily for Foundry and Steelmaking industries. Our Environmental & Infrastructure product line provides waterproofing water purification remediation and other fluid management technologies for critical projects for Remediation Water Purification and Infrastructure.

MTIis committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work environment for all our offices around the world our differences are respected and valued as essential to MTIs continued growth and innovation. Our goal is to ensure that all employees at MTI experience our workplace as a welcoming and respectful environment where they can achieve their full potential.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Data entry of a high volume of invoices quickly and accurately
• Invoice approval ASL verification and routing invoices for additional approval when necessary.
• Payment exception handling requires an understanding of the Procure to Pay process and strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Payment processing for all of the North American locations
• Resolve all bank inquiries or issues
• Handle large critical supplier statement resolution
• Process month end close and monitor all issues related to the close process
• Work closely with PTP team and other departments daily
• Works with our RTR team for problem resolution
• Processes request for payments as needed
• Process quarterly regression testing and audit requests
• Projects as assigned
• Special instruction processing
• Assist in monitoring and developing performance measures
• Suggest and help implement continuous improvement projects
• Work in a team environment coordinating work requirements and schedules with other team members
• Open mail and scan into processing system

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• Other duties as assigned.

OE/Lean

• Actively participates in the implementation of sustainable improvement processes such as 5S Kaizen Daily Management Control Standard Work and Problem Solving.

Note: Management reserves the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Qualifications/Requirements:

The requirements listed in the sections that follow are representative of the knowledge skills and/or abilities required to perform the duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions (primary duties) of the job.

Education: Associates Degree in Business or equivalent experience.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Must have at least 3 years experience in an accounting/accounts payable environment.
• Prior experience with an electronic matching system is preferred.
• Individuals must have strong interpersonal organizational and analytical skills.
• Must have the ability to troubleshoot and analyze invoice/payment issues along with excellent computer skills including Microsoft Word and Excel mathematical aptitude and record keeping experience.
• Previous experience with Accounts Payable functions for an industrial or manufacturing organization desired.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills required. Ability to read write speak and understand English required.

Travel: Travel may occur on an infrequent basis.

Working Conditions: While performing the duties of this job the employee is typically required to regularly conduct work in a controlled office environment moving around the office as needed sitting at a desk using office equipment including but not limited to a personal computer fax machine copier and telephone read write listen speak and understand English have the ability to work independently be dependable and maintain confidential information integrity and composure at all times.

Constant contact with individuals internal and external to the organization occurs via various methods of communication typically including face-to-face discussions electronic mail phone calls written letters and/or faxes.

The employee is expected to be self-directed take initiative and be persistent when appropriate to accomplish necessary duties and keep busy without prompting. Additionally the employee is expected to be adaptable/flexible to changing work assignments analytical organized and detail-oriented perform multiple tasks at once compose correspondence and other documentation in a professional manner express ideas constructively actively listen to others manage time effectively and efficiently to meet deadlines learn and memorize procedures display a cooperative attitude read understand and follow all company job specific and safety policies/procedures and attend/use all required training.

Work Hours: The schedule is typically the day shift. However employees must have ability to work the shift/number of hours in which duties need to be accomplished including overtime holidays and weekends as necessary.

Safety Training: A new employee hired to perform the duties of this position is required to be provided New Employee Training by a qualified individual or through the online training system. Additionally an employee must be provided further training if a job duty/task has changes that will affect the health and safety aspects of that employees position.

Additional refresher safety training will be required as management deems appropriate or as dictated by government regulations.

EOE