Senior Accounts Payable Specialist

Job Description

The Opportunity
Brunswick Group is looking for a proactive, service-oriented Senior Accounts Payable Specialist to join our Dallas office. Your primary tasks will include supporting the expense report process, providing support processing invoices and completing other ad hoc AP work. The nature of this role requires you to be a continuous advocate and champion of our accounts payable policies and procedures, as part of a team of other like-minded professionals in both New York City and Dallas.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• The primary role of the position will be to support the Accounts Payable process, including processing employee expenses, vendor invoices and preparing related accounting entries
• Ensure processing of payments for invoices and expenses within established guidelines and controls
• Manage the weekly payment run of vendor invoices, preparing/providing supporting documentation and schedules for Senior management to review
• Research and resolve invoice and expense issues with internal employees and external vendors
• Assist management with AP ad hoc projects as necessary for the finance team
• Assist in the preparation of regular expense reporting and analysis in a continued effort in giving upper management insights into spending trends

To qualify for this role, you must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, or equivalent work experience
• A strong foundation in general accounting principles and processes
• At least 5 years of progressive Accounts Payable or Accounting experience
• Strong PC and Microsoft application skills
• Gravitas, excellent communication abilities, high energy, and a strong work ethic
• Discretion with confidential matters and professional polish
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills a must
• Ability to prioritize and multitask while remaining collaborative and team-oriented
• Knowledge of 1099 vendors
• Intermediate or advanced experience with Excel
• Strong Communication skills

While not required, the following would be a plus:

• International work experience or knowledge
• Multi-lingual
• CPA certification
• Experience with Concur and expense reporting
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics

About Brunswick

Brunswick is a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues and critical stakeholders.  Our purpose is to help our clients play their role in the world successfully.

We advise on critical issues and critical stakeholders at the center of business, politics and society, and help our clients – the leaders of large, complex organizations – understand and navigate these interconnected worlds.

Brunswick is one firm globally, operating as a single profit center. This allows us to respond seamlessly and effectively to clients’ needs wherever they are in the world.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement

Maintaining and strengthening a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace are pillars of Brunswick’s culture and key to our future success. Valuing and supporting every colleague as an individual while helping them reach their full potential is critical to attracting and developing our greatest strength – our people. By embracing our differences and diverse perspectives we create richer experiences within our firm and enhance the quality of the ideas and advice that we deliver to our clients.

Background

Founded in London in 1987, Brunswick’s global partnership has grown organically to 27 offices in 18 countries. We began as a M&A and financial communications firm and, over time, expanded our capabilities to provide expert advice to our clients on a range of business-critical issues. We invested in new offices, sector teams and practice groups including investor engagement; shareholder activism; governance; regulatory and public affairs, including geopolitical; crisis; litigation; social issues including climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion; cybersecurity, data and privacy; employee engagement; digital communications; opinion research and analysis, and; creative services.

Our CEO is Henry Timms, based in New York. Our Chairman is Sir Alan Parker, based in London.

The Americas

In the U.S., we have offices in Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. In Brazil, we have an office in Sao Paulo. We advise clients on, among other things, domestic and cross border M&A, IPOs, activism, capital markets and investor relations, public and regulatory affairs, geopolitical issues, litigation, crisis, cyber, employee engagement, digital, opinion research and on broader reputation campaigns.

Colleagues in the U.S. are drawn from a variety of backgrounds and consist of in-depth industry and sector experts from banking, law, accounting, politics, government, journalism and the media, consulting and elsewhere. Our U.S. CEO is Nik Deogun.

For more information on Brunswick, including our offices and client offers, please visit our website: www.brunswickgroup.com