Payment Operations Accountant

About the position

The purpose of the Payment Operations Accountant is to review and process payables to confirm compliance with open contracts/purchase orders for the Payment Operations department which serves as a support function to the Construction Services Group. The role involves ensuring timely and effective billing review across multiple projects and managing project trackers to assist the construction team with unit tracking and order compliance.

Responsibilities

• Input/Upload contract statement of values into Yardi Construction or other project platforms
• Validate budgets, lien waivers and project roll forwards for contractor billing
• Communicates daily with vendors and CSG Team
• Demonstrate timely and effective billing review across multiple projects/scopes
• Manage project trackers to assist Bell construction team with unit tracking/order compliance
• Ability to work across and coordinate with various teams (Construction, Procurement, Operations) on project set-up, billing, tracking
• Perform contract and project closeout process to completion
• Respond to management or departmental inquiries including follow-ups
• Administer setup and maintenance of SharePoint Payment Platform or other project platforms
• Review all invoices for appropriate documentation and approval prior to payment
• Validate correct cash account and posts the payable in Yardi Construction Module
• Review and manage Weekly Invoice Status Report available on Power BI platform
• Prepare monthly reconciliations of National Vendor accounts by verifying the consolidated bill agrees to actual invoice submissions and Lien Waivers into Payment Operations Accounting
• Verify open payables in Yardi - Work with properties to distinguish Operations or Construction
• Daily facilitation of payment status with CSG team and vendors
• Communicate with vendors/contractors regarding billing discrepancies, duplicate shipments, processing updates, payment verification/timing
• Additional duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field (or equivalent work plus education)
• Proficient with MS office, including Excel (i.e. v-lookup, pivots, data formatting)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate the Bell Core Values
• Exceptional customer service skills
• Ability to successfully work on a team
• Superior interpersonal skills; ability to get along with diverse personalities; tactful; mature, flexible
• Resourceful and well organized

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using YARDI
• Construction accounting background