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FoodScience LLC, a growing manufacturer of nutritional supplements based in Williston, Waterbury, and Colchester, Vermont, is seeking a full-time Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable Specialist to join our team. Would you like to work for a company with a great culture, competitive benefits, and a supportive team? You might be the perfect fit

FoodScience offers 9 paid holidays per year-including your birthday-one paid week off during our yearly plant shutdown, and a competitive Paid Time Off (PTO) program that starts accruing immediately. Our benefits include health insurance with options for a Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), life insurance, dental, vision, and a variety of other additional insurance options to fit your needs. Other perks include employee discounts and professional development.

What You'll Do Here

The Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable Specialist understands the urgency of getting the job done accurately and timely. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of the accounting cycle in a professional environment. An understanding of basic accounting principles is required, as well as strong computer and communication skills and a working knowledge of Excel.

Essential Duties

Accounts Payable

• Perform full-cycle accounts payable processes - including invoice matching with purchase orders, coding, batching, data entry, and processing payments.
• Ensure invoices are recorded to the proper accounting periods in accordance with company policy and generally accepted accounting principles.
• Perform routine daily and monthly responsibilities.
• Assign proper GL coding of invoices and expenses.
• Resolve purchase order, invoice, or payment discrepancies.
• Communicate effectively with vendors and other employees to resolve payment processing issues.
• Oversee the maintenance of vendor master files.
• Monitor invoice progress from receipt through approval and payment.
• Assist in reconciling and administering monthly expense reports.
• Support statement reconciliation and miscellaneous projects as assigned by management.

Accounts Receivable

• Process manual credit card payments.
• Release sales orders.
• Apply wire and EDI payments to customer invoices.
• Interact with customer care and sales reps, answering questions and providing information.
• Create monthly customer statements.
• Process bill-only orders and apply credits.
• Enter check payments into ERP system and prepare deposits.
• Maintain Accounts Receivable files.
• Process customer credit applications and run Experian credit reports (as needed for vendors).
• Record receipts in spreadsheet.

About FoodScience

Founded in 1973, FoodScience currently maintains offices in Williston, Colchester, and Waterbury, Vermont. Our team manufactures nutritional supplements for both humans and animals, and our mission is to help people and pets live healthier lives every day.

We consider it a privilege to lend our minds, our hearts, and our hands to the work of helping people and pets live healthier lives. It's what drives us to be pioneering in all the ways that lead to new and better nutritional supplements and products.

Our internal processes, research and development programs, manufacturing, partnerships, and distribution all play a critical role in producing the most effective, easily available products and programs.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of job-related experience.
• Experience with high invoice volume.
• Accurate data entry at a high rate of speed.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Extremely high attention to detail.
• Proficient with Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Ability to carry out tasks and bring projects to closure.
• Professional and mature work ethic.
• Self-starter with the ability to learn new concepts quickly.

Why You Should Apply

Working at FoodScience is not just another job-it's a chance to make a real difference in people's and pets' lives while advancing your career.

We offer:

• 9 paid holidays per year-including your birthday
• One paid week off during our annual plant shutdown.
• Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO) that begins accruing immediately.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options.
• Life insurance and additional voluntary insurance offerings.
• 401(k) profit sharing.
• Employee discounts and professional development opportunities.

You'll work with a supportive, experienced team that wants to see you succeed.

Ready to Join Our Team?

Your time is valuable-that's why our online application process is quick, simple, and easy to use. We look forward to speaking with you

FoodScience provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, parental status, crime victims, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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