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Element has an opportunity for a temporary Accounts Payable (AP) Specialist. In this role you will be responsible for accounts payable duties, supporting multiple labs and/or locations.
This position plays a crucial role in the daily upkeep of accounts payable, fielding phone calls from vendors and Element laboratories, ensuring invoices are entered into accounting system, payments made within acceptable timeframe, and other duties as assigned. This position partners with AP lead and team of AP representatives.
Temporary position: This is a temporary full-time assignment lasting until the end of 2026.
This is a hybrid role: Monday-Thursday at our Blue Ash HQ & Friday remote.
Responsibilities
- Build friendly relationship with vendors
- Analyze accounts, obtain missing invoices, and address discrepancies
- Build rapport with assigned Element Lab(s)
- Maintain spreadsheet with invoices and their status, review with lab each week
- Invoice Entry, Coding, keying, date stamping and filing of invoices
- Check Runs which includes pulling invoices for payment, delivering checks as necessary (postage machine, overnight)
- Overall knowledge/partner of Element lab assigned and their vendors for AP related topics
- Other tasks as needed or requested by Lead or Manager
- 3+ years of experience in multi-site/location accounts payable support (or 1 year experience and college degree, preferably with accounting or accounting related major)
- Ability to read and interpret accounting related documents
- Ability to effectively communicate inside organization (manager, peers, members of Element team) as well as externally (vendors)
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as invoice amounts, payment terms and cash balances and to apply concepts of basic math
- Excellent analytical skills and knowledge of accounting and financial principles
- Demonstrated problem resolution skills
- Attention to detail is critical
- Proficiency with accounting software systems
- Ability to remain calm when faced with deadlines and multiple priorities
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to function as part of a team
At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.
All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in multi-site or multi-location accounts payable support, or 1 year of experience plus a college degree
- College degree, preferably in accounting or a related major, if qualifying through the one-year experience pathway
- Ability to read and interpret accounting-related documents
- Effective internal and external communication skills
- Ability to calculate invoice amounts, payment terms, and cash balances using basic mathematics
- Excellent analytical skills and knowledge of accounting and financial principles
- Demonstrated problem-resolution skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Proficiency with accounting software systems
- Ability to manage deadlines and multiple priorities calmly
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team
Element Materials Technology Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, floating holidays, and paid volunteer time are highlighted, with flexibility to use time off in many teams. This breadth of options adds practical value beyond base pay.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Employee Assistance Program support, recognition programs, and “Smarter Working” flexibility are featured as part of the package. These offerings support day-to-day wellbeing and work–life fit.
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What We Do
The Element Materials Technology Group is one of the world’s leading global providers of testing, inspection, and certification services for a diverse range of products, materials, and technologies in advanced industrial supply chains where failure in use is not an option. Headquartered in London, UK, Element’s c.9,000 scientists, engineers, and technologists, work across a global network of over 270+ locations, support customers from early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals, and into production ensuring their products are safe and sustainable, and achieve market access. In 2021, Element set out its new, industry leading environmental commitments, adopting science-based targets and committing to net zero emissions across its entire global business by 2035. These environmental commitments follow Element’s achievement of the highest ESG ranking in the testing, inspection and certification industry from Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG research and data.
