Accounts Payable Accounting Technician III

Seattle City Light, a department of the City of Seattle, is one of the nation’s largest municipally owned utilities in terms of the number of customers served. Over the years we have worked very hard to keep Seattle's electricity affordable, reliable, and environmentally sound. Today, City Light is a recognized national leader in energy efficiency and environmental stewardship.

Seattle City Light has an opening for an Accounting Technician III. In this role, you will play a critical role in the daily operation of City Light’s travel, credit card, and reimbursement functions. You will be responsible for processing City Light commercial credit card transactions, travel advances, employee expense reimbursements, and accounts payable payment requests. In addition to transactional responsibilities, you will maintain and update standard operating procedures, deliver training, and provide ongoing guidance to employees across the utility. This includes assisting staff with travel planning, reimbursement requirements, and credit card purchasing needs to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely processing. You will also process and perform complex reconciliations, vouching, and journal entries. You will research, analyze and resolve complex issues related to billing, payment postings and out-of-balance voucher and journal entries. You will also assist in the development and preparation of various Accounts Payable and Travel Desk procedures.

This position reports to the Accounts Payable Manager.

• Monitors the work, provides work instructions, and ensures proper work is performed by the Accounts Payable Technicians

• Coordinates and trains Accounting Technician personnel on accounts payable processes related to purchasing, payment processing, travel, employee reimbursements

• Serves as the Seattle City Light accounts payable subject matter expert by providing procedural instructions, guidelines and departmental training to all City Light employees on travel and credit card policy and procedures.

• Provides policy expertise and monitors controls

• Develops and updates Accounts Payable standard operating procedures

• Analyzes, verifies and audits accounts payable transactions and ensures compliance with Accounting standards and applicable Federal, State, and City Laws, rules, regulations and departmental procedures and guidelines

• Performs general ledger reconciliations and works to resolve any identified issues

• Creates and maintain reports in Excel

• Provides departmental procedures and guidelines to employees and vendors as they related to accounts payable, travel and employee expense reimbursements to ensure compliance with IRS regulations, City ordinances, collective bargaining agreements, general accounting and bookkeeping standards, and other state and federal laws and regulations

• Assists the manager in the implementation of new City initiatives that are related to Accounts Payable

• Other special job duties and small projects as assigned

In addition to the skills and experience mentioned below, a successful applicant will have experience that reflects a commitment to creating fair and equitable outcomes and has:

Requires three years of previous accounting and/or bookkeeping experience or one year work experience as an Accounting Technician II (or a combination of education/experience/training which provides an equivalent background required to perform the work of the class).

Desired Qualifications - You will be successful if you have the following experience, skills, and abilities:

• Two or more years in a high-volume Accounts Payable work unit within the last five