Payments Clerk

• Completes payments and controls expenses by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices

. • Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances

. • Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports; recording entries

. • Pays vendors by monitoring discount opportunities, verifying federal id numbers, scheduling and preparing checks, and resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation.

• Ensures credit is received for outstanding memos.

• Issues stop-payments or purchase order amendments.

• Pays employees by receiving and verifying expense reports and requests for advances; preparing checks.

• Maintains accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.

• Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions

. • Maintains historical records by microfilming and filing documents. • Disburses petty cash by recording entry and verifying documentation

. • Reports sales taxes by calculating requirements on paid invoices