About the Role:The Accounts Payable Specialist, reporting to the Accounts Payable Manager, supports the Accounting team through the execution of accounts payable activities, vendor account management, and cross-functional support within the AP function. You should be analytical and precise, but able to operate in ambiguity and adapt quickly in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
This role is classified as Temp to Perm.
What You'll Do:- Manage the full accounts payable lifecycle from invoice receipt through payment, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely processing.
- Review, verify, code, and process invoices according to company policies and accounting standards.
- Match invoices to purchase orders, receipts and supporting documentation, ensuring proper GL coding.
- Prepare batch check runs, wire transfers, and ACH payments.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for vendors regarding invoice status, payment inquiries, discrepancies, shortages and account-related concerns.
- Build and maintain positive vendor relationships by ensuring accounts remain current and resolving payment issues promptly.
- Research, investigate, and resolve invoice, receiving, pricing and payment discrepancies while coordinating with internal business partners.
- Reconcile vendor statements and account balances, ensuring outstanding issues are resolved in a timely manner.
- Support month-end and year-end close activities, accruals, reconciliations, audits, sales tax reporting, and 1099 compliance.
Skills + Experience:- 5+ years of Accounts Payable experience required.
- Experience working in high-volume, fast-paced environments.
- Experience with invoice processing, purchase order matching, vendor payments, reconciliations and month-end close activities.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and LOOKUPs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with ERP systems, SAP a plus.
Pay TransparencyAs a temporary employee, this role will pay $45 per hour with a 40 hour work week at our Walnut Creek HQ.
SEASONED FOR SUCCESS:- No two days here are the same.
- We try to be good team members and good communicators, but we don't live by hierarchy and structure - everyone is a difference maker here.
- We make a lot of decisions in the face of incomplete information - our team embraces ambiguity and tries to make good decisions fast rather than great decisions slow.
- We believe our job is to take smart risk, not to eliminate risk.
- We believe in growing our skills and becoming a better company with more managerial expertise, but we are an entrepreneurial company at heart.
- We aren't trying to be average - we want to do exceptional things, and we are willing to work hard to achieve them.
BENEFITS THAT BRING MORE TO THE TABLE:We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, 401k, bonus / incentive eligibility, equity grants, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits, including parental leave. Kinder's benefits vary based on eligibility and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.
OUR RECIPE FOR BALANCE:We believe great culture starts with people. We're a people-first company built on connection, collaboration, and balance. Most of our work happens in the office to spark creativity and community, but we also offer flexibility so team members have the autonomy to work outside the office when needed to support their work-life balance and personal commitments.
