Specialist, Accounting Asset Protection Services
Job Summary
As a Specialist in Accounting Asset Protection Services, your responsibilities will go beyond traditional invoice processing and focus on cost optimization, audit-level review, and strategic vendor analysis. You will play a critical role in identifying duplicate payments, overbilling, and cost-saving opportunities across a nationwide vendor base.
The cores responsibilities for the position include the following:- Review and process invoices with a strong emphasis on accuracy and validation.
- Conduct detailed research to identify duplicate payments, pricing discrepancies, and overcharges and billing issues.
- Analyze vendor spend patterns to uncover cost-saving opportunities.
- Partner with internal teams and vendors to resolve discrepancies and recover funds.
- Maintain strong documentation and audit trails for findings and adjustments.
- Recommend and help implement process improvements that drive efficiency and savings.
- Monitor ongoing vendor activity to ensure compliance with agreed pricing/contracts.
Job Responsibilities- Processes routine accounting transactions, including creating work orders for capital projects, that require a basic knowledge of the process flows in the department.
- Responsible to track and report payments processed and supply payment information to local municipalities. Send and track notifications to service providers to cancel services when required.
- Helps run basic reports following routine processes.
- Verifies information on forms, vouchers or other accounting documents as well as in systems according to process guidelines. Enters and validates data into systems and system setups.
- Processes transactions and enters them into a computerized system.
- Follows processes and performs transactions with a high degree of accuracy
- Handles a large volume of basic transactions.
- May assist more senior specialists in processing more complex transactions and in auditing work.
- Contacts internal and external departments for required information and proper escalation of payment issues.
- Provides updates to customers and team members on status of payments.
- Handles incoming inquiries via email or phone.
About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Basic Qualifications
- High School Diploma/GED.
- Basic level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: opening a workbook, inserting a row, selecting font style and size, formatting cells as currency, using copy, paste and save functions, aligning text, selecting cells, renaming a worksheet, inserting a column, selecting a chart style, inserting a worksheet, setting margins, selecting page orientation, using spell check and/or printing worksheets).
- Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with transactional accounting.
- Experience with SAP accounting software.
- At least 2 years of experience in an accounts payable position.
- Basic skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: inserting, rearranging, hiding and deleting slides, navigating between slides, increasing list level, adding, centering and editing text, changing views, inserting a table or a note, moving objects, printing outline view and/or running a slide show).
- Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: opening a document, cutting, pasting and aligning text, selecting font type and size, changing margins and column width, sorting, inserting bullets, pictures and dates, using find and replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane and/or print functions).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers
We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.The Salary below is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Walgreens. The actual hourly salary within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits. If you are applying on a job board or unable to click on the link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser jobs.walgreens.com/benefits
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Salary Range: $21.24 - $31.25 / Hourly
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