Accounts Payable Specialist - TEST JOB
Empower Pharmacy is a visionary healthcare company dedicated to making quality, affordable medication accessible to millions of patients nationwide. As the largest 503A compounding pharmacy and FDA-registered 503B outsourcing facility serving the functional medicine markets, we are proud to be recognized as one of Houston’s fastest-growing private companies and ranked #116 in Healthcare & Medical on the Inc. 5000 List for 2025.
Our strength lies in four core values—People, Quality, Service, and Innovation. Guided by these principles, we deliver a uniquely integrated approach to healthcare through vertical supply chain integration, advanced technology, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. From manufacturing to distribution to quality control, our teams work collaboratively to push boundaries, improve patient outcomes, and redefine medication accessibility.
At Empower, joining our team means more than starting a new job, it means becoming part of a mission to transform healthcare. We empower our employees to innovate, grow, and make a meaningful impact every day. Here, your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions are celebrated.
If you thrive in a fast-paced, transformative environment where innovation meets purpose, Empower Pharmacy is the place for you. Let’s revolutionize healthcare together.
Position Overview:
The Accounts Payable Specialist ensures accurate financial operations by managing vendor accounts, processing payments, and reconciling invoices. This role supports Empower Pharmacy’s mission by fostering vendor relationships and maintaining compliance to deliver quality, affordable medications.
Essential Job Functions:
- Processes Accounts Payable (AP) invoices accurately and efficiently, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Verifies and reconciles invoices, purchase orders, and receipts to ensure accuracy, completeness, and proper authorization prior to payment.
- Maintains vendor accounts by reconciling statements, resolving discrepancies, responding to inquiries, and monitoring contracts, including W-9 forms and payment terms.
- Prepares and processes payments, including checks, Automated Clearing House payments, and wire transfers, and supports month-end close activities like accruals and reconciliations.
- Collaborates with internal departments and vendors to resolve billing issues and participates in special projects and initiatives as assigned by management.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in AP or related role.
- High School Degree or equivalent required. Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field preferred.
- Demonstrates attention to detail, time management, and professionalism, working independently or collaboratively to meet deadlines.
- Possesses strong accounting knowledge, proficiency in reconciliations, month-end closing, Microsoft Excel, and accounting software like QuickBooks, System Analysis Program, or Oracle.
Key Competencies:
- Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer-centric solutions
- Strategic AI: Guides responsible AI adoption and adaptation
- Optimizes Work Processes: Drives efficiency with continuous improvement
- Collaborates: Partners effectively to achieve shared goals
- Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources efficiently
- Manages Complexity: Simplifies and solves complex challenges
- Ensures Accountability: Delivers on commitments with integrity
- Situational Adaptability: Adjusts approach to shifting conditions
- Communicates Effectively: Tailors messages to diverse audiences
Values:
- People: Empowering people defines who we are
- Quality: Excellence in every product, every time
- Service: Serving others is our highest purpose
- Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery
Employee Benefits, Health, and Wellness:
We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications. Learn more: https://careers.empowerpharmacy.com/benefits/
Physical Requirements:
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.