Kettle Cuisine
Accounts Payable Specialist - Remote/hybrid
- Location: Lynn, MA
- Position Type: Full Time
Delicious Food and Meaningful Careers
At the heart of our company is a deep passion for creating fresh, healthy, and artisan-quality food that brings people together. We honor the craft of artisan cooking—using scratch-made stocks, hand-chopped herbs, and only the highest-quality ingredients—complemented by cutting-edge technology. This allows us to deliver consistently safe, exceptional products on a large scale.
But it’s not just about the food. Our culture is built on principles that shape how we grow, both as individuals and as a team. One of our core values, Honoring Development, guides us to actively seek out, celebrate, and nurture one another’s talents, strengths, and interests. By fostering each other’s growth, we strengthen our relationships and capabilities, driving both personal and professional success.
We also believe in Honoring Each Other. We surround ourselves with passionate people who share our love for great food. Through mutual respect and collaboration, we create an environment where employees are empowered to thrive, building trusting, and rewarding relationships with our clients, partners, and one another.
If you're looking for a place where your skills, passion, and ideas can flourish, we invite you to explore the opportunities available within our dynamic and supportive team, offering career paths in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Washington, and Maryland.
Job Summary
Reporting to the Accounts Payable Manager, the Accounts Payable Specialist is responsible for managing the full cycle day-to-day transactions for the accounts payable processes. The role will be hybrid and require occasional travel to Lynn, MA corporate location.
Duties and Responsibilities
Accounts Payable:
- Review and resolve exceptions in APSmart/CloudX, invoice approval and automation system
- Process daily upload from APSmart system into ERP
- Reconcile and validate that information from APSmart is reflected completely and accurately in ERP
- Manually Process PO and non-PO invoices not captured in automation as well as weekly expense reports
- Assist with Accounts Payable Manager in creating and maintaining vendor master data
- Reconcile vendor statements
- Review and resolve AP shared mailboxes daily
- Create weekly payments runs ensuring no duplications and payment accuracy
- Process manual payment through various web portals (i.e. utilities, leases, etc.)
- Review bank activity and reconcile all payments in system
- Additional duties as required.
Required Skills
- Associates/Bachelors degree preferred
- Minimum 3-5 years experience in AP
- Must be proficient with MS Office programs, specifically Excel and Outlook
- Familiarity with specific ERP systems and other tools not expected; ability to learn new tools is important
- General understanding of automation systems – conscious
Desired Skills
- Attention to detail, well organized and able to juggle many projects at once
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate effectively with internal and external customers
- Able to develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Comfortable moving at a fast pace and in ambiguous environments
- Willing to address issues and work through problems with patience and respect
- Positive attitude and motivated by contributing to the overall success of the team
- Desire and ability to contribute to process and system improvements
Responsibility
- Works under general supervision. Makes decisions within clearly prescribed areas referring matters that fall outside that area to others.
- Recommends actions and alternatives to supervisor and others.
- Receives customer and vendor questions and responds within prescribed areas of knowledge.
- Cross-trains other employees and answers questions from co-workers, but is not responsible for performance management.
Americans with Disabilities Act
Kettle Cuisine complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state disability laws. This means we will not discriminate against qualified individuals with a disability in any phase of the employment relationship including application for employment, hiring, promotions and/or advancement opportunities, termination, compensation, training and any other conditions or privileges of employment.
Core Values
Kettle Cuisine takes the utmost pride in its people, products and reputation. Each employee is expected to understand and live our Core Values every day.
Honor Food – We create and produce the best tasting, safest, all natural recipes that strive for perfection in every batch, from bench to kettle
Honor Each Other – We seek to develop trusting, respectful and mutually rewarding relationships with all our team members and business partners
Honor Development – We recognize and nurture each other’s talents, strengths and interests in order to further strengthen and grow our team
Honor Innovation – We continually strive for creative and sustainable ways to achieve excellence