Accounts Payable Associate II

Why Stifel

Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole.

Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

What You'll Be Doing

The Accounts Payable Associate II computes, classifies, and records numerical data to maintain financial records and ensure they remain complete. The Associate II will perform any combination of routine calculations, posts, and verification duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. The Associate II will process invoices and check requests for proper payment.

What We're Looking For

• Process mail and prepare invoices and check requests for computer input.• Analyze invoices for proper approval, code invoices with general ledger number, and research past due amounts.• Input invoice data for creation of checks, and issue manual checks and record in the accounts payable system.• Scan and enter high volume of invoices into Accounts Payable (AP) system with exceptional accuracy.• Review employee expense reports for accuracy and IRS requirements. Monitor and report company credit card usage.• Cross-train with other AP staff to cover other positions during high volume times.• Respond to complex inquiries from AP help line and AP email address.• Responsible for processing accounts payable via personal computer program for subsidiaries.• Create and input general ledger entries for AP corrections or updates.

What You'll Bring

• Basic understanding of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.• Solid ability to use mathematics to solve problems and arrive at correct answers.• Proven ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.• General knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems, such as word processing, managing files and records, and other office procedures and terminology.• Demonstrates the ability to work independently on the majority of responsibilities.• Possesses a strong understanding of end-to-end Accounts Payable processes.

Education & Experience

• Minimum Required: High School degree or equivalent.• Minimum Required: 2+ years automated accounting (e.g., Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable).

Systems & Technology

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook• Experience with Accounting software

About Stifel

Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up.  We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas.  Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations.  Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more.  Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.