Accounts Payable Specialist

Build More with Your Career at Christman Constructors, Inc.

With projects throughout the Midwest, Christman Constructors, Inc. (CCI) is a great place to begin, continue or grow your career. We're searching for the next generation of innovative minds who want to shape the world and live to build. CCI is looking for an Accounts Payable Specialist in our Lansing, Michigan region. Accounts Payable Specialists serve as an auditor and are responsible for the payments of goods and services purchased by Christman Constructors, Inc. (CCI).

What You Will Do:

As Accounts Payable Specialist, your primary daily responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Sends checks to the appropriate person for signature, and matches checks to ensure accuracy prior to sending for payment.
• Receives unapproved invoices and sends them to the appropriate person for approval.
• Completes full cycle invoice creation, processing, and tracking including printing checks and balancing check batches.
• Reviews bids and pre-qualifications, as required.
• Manages office supply inventory and ordering, as required.
• Responds to requests from internal and external partners regarding invoices and payments.
• Assists with check printing, waivers, and monitoring of held checks for compliance release.
• Manages administration of Comdata program, including but not limited to managing vendor enrollment and processing weekly transmissions.
• Ensures subcontractor compliance requirements are met, in support of Project Accountants.
• Processes assigned reports, as required.
• Performs general office duties, such as filing, answering telephones, and handling routine correspondence.
• Complies with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Completes assigned training for this role.

What You Will Bring to the Team:

Required experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:

• Associates Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of two (2) years' experience in an Accounts Payable role.
• Or equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience.

Preferred experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:

• Accounts Payable experience in the construction industry.
• Viewpoint software knowledge.
• Experience in a 'paperless' environment.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Knowledge of general accounting principles, regulatory standards, and compliance requirements.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including the ability to operate computerized accounting and spreadsheet programs.
• Excellent data entry skills, analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills, and the ability to multi-task.
• High degree of accuracy, attention to detail, and confidentiality.
• Strong mathematical skills.
• Ability to work independently or as a team member.

Why Christman?

At Christman, everyone is an owner. Through our employee stock ownership plan, each employee-owner shares in the collective success and wealth of our nationally recognized company and is eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance, 401K contribution, professional development and tuition reimbursement, and more.

CCI is a premier full-service construction contractor with a tradition of excellence spanning more than a century. We are passionate about constructing facilities that drive our economy, improve our public infrastructure, and create the spaces that enable our clients to do what they do best.

With offices in Detroit, Lansing, and Livonia, Michigan, CCI specializes in:

• Carpentry & General Trades
• Concrete & Civil
• Demolition & Restoration
• Mass Timber
• Fireproofing
• Service
• General Contracting

Learn more about how you can grow as a Christman Expert, Leader and Partner and build more with us.

Work Environment and Physical Demands: The job will be conducted in a temperature controlled professional office environment, with moderate noise. The role will routinely use standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to talk, listen sit, walk, reach, kneel, stoop, crouch, use hands and fingers to handle or feel and to operate a computer and telephone keyboard, and maintain visual acuity.

Notice to Recruiting Agencies (Unsolicited Resumes): The Christman Company does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our applicant tracking system, website, or to any Christman employee/affiliates. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Christman employees or its' affiliates will be considered property of The Christman Company and will be processed accordingly. Christman will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume without an executed agreement and assigned to a specific search.

The Christman family of companies is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.