Accounts Payable Specialist

At Community Development Partners, we are deeply proud of our track record of providing award-winning solutions to housing. We work every day to achieve our mission of creating life-enhancing affordable housing that transcends the fundamental goal of providing high quality homes by building innovative and sustainable developments with a focus on long-term community engagement. As a mission-driven certified B Corp, we are unique in our field as a for-profit developer that leads with our impact goals. Since our inception in 2011, we have built, preserved, or are actively developing over 55 unique projects comprising 4,800+ units of affordable housing throughout Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado.

Sure, that’s what we do, and we are passionately committed to it, but equally as important is who we are as a team. We believe in forward progress, continuous collaboration, authentic connection, and mixing it all up with a healthy dose of fun. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we offer a full suite of benefits that includes highly subsidized insurance, retirement plan with matching contributions, a sabbatical program, cell phone reimbursement, PTO, and more.

Are you interested in being part of a highly collaborative culture? Do you love detail and take immense pride in the work you create? We’re looking for an Accounts Payable Specialist to join our growing mission-driven team, so if the answer to these questions is yes we'd love to talk! As our AP Specialist, you will manage the accounts payable processes to ensure suppliers, vendors and other creditors are paid promptly and all transactions are recorded accurately. This will primarily be an in-office position for the first 6-12 months, working out of our Newport Beach, CA office. It is open to entry level candidates and recent graduates; see below for more details.

In this role, you will:

• Add all payables to the Yardi accounting system, coding, routing for approvals, and processing to ensure readiness for each weekly check run.
• Process all special payment requests in the timeline specified.
• Assist with bank account management, ensuring ACH payments are recorded, depositing checks, uploading transactions for Positive Pay, and booking basic journal entries.
• Download bank statements.
• Maintain vendor files, including new vendor setup, collecting and entering W-9s, payment records, and responding to vendor inquiries.
• Support 1099 preparation, reporting and compliance.
• Process corporate credit card payments and reconcile statements.
• Ensure document retention in alignment with department guidelines.
• Assist with month-end close activities.
• Monitor incoming emails, ensuring all are handled or promptly delegated.
• Assist with ad hoc analyses, projects, and other duties as assigned.

If the following describes you, we want to hear from you:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills (in English), allowing for clear and succinct communication in a variety of settings (phone, in-person and email), and with people of various backgrounds and levels, both internally and externally.
• Thorough understanding of MS Office and Google Workspace, and comfortable with new technologies.
• Strong customer focus, with dedication to meeting the expectations, needs and requirements of internal and external customers, successfully gaining their trust and respect.
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and dig in, finding creative solutions to new and old challenges.
• Ability to work successfully both independently and with others, building professional working relationships based on mutual trust and respect.
• Commitment to accuracy and detail, double-checking your work.
• The belief that change is your friend; you embrace it and adapt easily, identifying and recommending new ideas or processes.
• Deep sense of accountability, acting with a sense of ownership and responsibility for decisions, commitments and outcomes.
• Resourceful, responsible, highly organized, and composed in the face of critical deadlines, meeting them head-on.
• Competent multitasker, juggling numerous balls without letting any drop and still executing at the high bar you have set for yourself.

Minimum experience:

• Bachelors degree in accounting, or related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
• Preference may be given to applicants with experience in real estate and/or multiple-entity accounting. 
• Experience with Yardi preferred, but not required.

The estimated salary range for this position is $55,000 to $70,000 per year, depending on experience. If the role and our team sounds interesting we'd love to hear from you!

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