Accounts Payable Assistant

Company: Lesley University
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Accounts Payable Assistant
The Opportunity Lesley University is seeking an Accounts Payable Assistant. The Accounts Payable Assistant is responsible for performing a variety of essential tasks. Alongside the AP team, this role will process and manage accounts payable transactions, ensuring timely and accurate payments. Additionally, this role will review and reconcile vendor statements to ensure completeness and accuracy. This includes maintaining and updating Excel spreadsheets to track invoices, payments, and other financial data. The Accounts Payable assistant will also be responsible for preparing and distributing checks for payment, assisting with departmental mail distribution, and support additional projects as needed. Qualities and Capabilities A successful candidate will have:

• Associates degree or equivalent required.
  • Familiarity with Ellucian Colleague is a plus but not required.
    • One plus year of Accounts Payable experience preferred
      • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook).
        • Exceptional attention to detail with a strong aptitude for working with numbers.
          • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
            • Strong organizational and multitasking abilities, with the capacity to meet deadlines in a fast-paced work environment. Why LesleyLocated in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lesley University is highly regarded for its graduate and undergraduate programs in the human arts of education, the arts, and applied social sciences. Lesley fosters a highly creative environment in which innovative ideas thrive, theory is integrated with practice and its 6,400 students and 90,000 alumni are empowered to improve and enrich communities.We offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, life, and long-term disability insurance. In addition, we offer significant paid time off, a generous retirement plan, and tuition programs that enable employees and their dependents to expand their knowledge and skills.Lesley is committed to the ongoing pursuit of strategic diversity initiatives that help to position diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental to institutional and academic excellence at Lesley. In doing so, Lesley strives for a campus culture and community that fosters a true sense of belonging for all, provides opportunity for everyone to participate equally and fully in the Lesley experience, and helps to develop each individual's capacity to confidently and competently engage within and across difference. Given an evolving national context and the rapid change in the demographic profile of our country, the University has made a significant commitment to addressing and enhancing its campus climate and diversity capabilities as an institution.Expressing InterestA letter of interest, CV/resume, and a statement addressing past and/or potential contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion through teaching, professional activity, and/or service must be included for full consideration.At Lesley University we strive for a supportive and equitable environment where people -- regardless of race, ethnicity, color, sex, physical ability, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, veteran or military status, membership in uniformed services, and all other categories protected by applicable state and federal laws -- can participate equally and fully as their true selves in all aspects of university life. Accordingly, the University prohibits discrimination based on these protected categories in any education program or activity that it operates, including in admission and in employment. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the fabric of our institution. Individuals may submit concerns or questions related to discrimination to the University's Director of Equal Opportunity. Please visit the Office of Equal Opportunity's webpage for the University's entire notice of nondiscrimination and for additional information.
              
              
              
              
              
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