General Position Summary:
The Freight AP Specialist (FAPS) provides clerical support to the Freight team. The incumbent ensures all freight accruals and payables are accurate. The FAPS ensures compliance with company policies and established regulations. The FAPS must adhere to strict deadlines and have established ability to understand and execute on detail orientated tasks.
This position operates within somewhat defined parameters. The primary goal of this position is to achieve excellence in all facets of freight payables. Providing the highest quality product safely, effectively, and efficiently decreases errors and increase freight payable visibility. Requires strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks with time deadlines.
Essential Functions:
Environmental and Health & Safety (H&S)
- Ensures safe work practices are always used and that documentation and current practices are in accordance with corporate safety policies, OSHA, and other regulatory guidelines.
- Provides a safe environment for all employees, customers, and visitors.
Operational Performance & Best Management Practices
- Accounts for all freight invoices; review weights, dollar amounts and vendor names and confirm that data has been entered into system correctly. Assure all invoices match against transportation transaction and make necessary changes.
- Work alongside Regional Logistics Managers to audit freight invoices
- Processes incoming freight bills.
- Prepares monthly reports regarding freight payables.
- Ensures freight vendor problems are handled expeditiously and they are always treated courteously.
- Provides consistent courteous customer service in a timely fashion to all levels of freight service providers
Special Projects
- Performs special projects or other duties as needed or assigned.
Job Conditions:
Average office environment subject to occasional dirt and noise due to industrial setting. Some overtime, including occasional weekend work, is required. Time deadlines create pressures to prioritize work. Frequent schedule changes require flexibility and composure.
Physical Activities Required to Perform Essential Functions:
Ability to: lift and carry up to 20 pounds occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently; sit for extended periods of time, up to 6-8 hours per day; write by hand and/or keyboard for extended periods of time, up to 6-8 hours per day; be mobile within an average office environment; bend at waist, twist upper body, stand, walk, and negotiate uneven surfaces; assemble papers, stable, and file; apply sufficient force to open and close file drawers; communicate both by phone and in person in a professional manner. Visual acuity needed for close detail work, preparing, and analyzing data figures, and computer work.
Qualifications:
Two-year degree in related field with three years general office experience preferred. In lieu of degree, high school diploma or equivalent with five years general office experience with two years working specifically in accounts payable or accounting/bookkeeping is required. Previous Administrative and customer service experience a must.
Proficiency required in all Windows XP applications; Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point. 10-key competency is a must. Typing 60 WPM, data entry and accuracy and attention to detail required. Candidates must possess excellent professional, oral and written communication skills and must be detail oriented, accurate, organized, and discrete when dealing with sensitive information. Ability to: perform and prioritize multiple projects with constant interruptions, work well in a time sensitive environment, follow instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form, and deal with problems involving several specific variables in or from standard situations. Needs to be flexible.
PLEASE NOTE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required.
All U.S. applicants must be 18 years of age or older and all Canada applicants must be 16 years of age or older.
Radius Recycling participates in e-verify for all U.S. new hires.
An offer of U.S. employment by Radius Recycling or any of its subsidiaries is contingent on the satisfactory completion of a post-offer drug screen and background check.
All new hires must review and sign an Arbitration Agreement. This applies to all U.S. non-union employees.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Radius Recycling does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, marital status, disability status, national origin or ancestry, veteran status, age, prior industrial injury, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other protected status under local, state or federal law.