Accounts Payable

The Morning Star Company

Accounts Payable Clerk

The Company

The Morning Star Company and its affiliates operate three tomato processing facilities in Central California, processing over 1/3 of the California processing tomato crop, in addition to tomato transplanting, farming, harvesting and trucking operations.  The company employs approximately 600 year-round and 2,500 seasonal colleagues.

The Morning Star Company is the largest independent producer of bulk tomato ingredient products (tomato paste and diced tomatoes) in the world.  We also produce canned tomatoes, tomato products and specialty sauces in pouches for customers in the retail and food service markets.  The company is known worldwide for its innovation and integrity

We are organizationally structured through a system we term Mission Focused Self-Management™.  Our company is operated by Colleagues without titles or an appointed hierarchy of authority.  Authority relative to other Colleagues’ activities is lateral, with our Mission as our guiding principle of action, and respect, influence and success built based on each Colleague’s integrity, competency, effort, persistence, and straightforward persuasiveness.  Although we have grown significantly, we intend to maintain a culture of individual responsibility and Mission Focused Self-Management™.

The Mission and Position

This colleague’s initial Mission will be to process invoices and payments in a timely and efficient manner for activities relating to the Los Banos Facility and California Sun Grower Services In addition, to perform office administration tasks in collaboration with Los Banos front office colleagues. colleagues. This position is located in our Los Banos office.

Specific Responsibilities and Activities

1. Process Invoices
   1. Scan and distribute invoices for relevant colleagues’ review and coding
   2. Enter various invoice types, process payment via checks, get signatures, mail payments and file documents for proper back up storage weekly or as needed
   3. Maintain Vendor Profile and payable transactions in accounting system
   4. Verify coding, amounts, and taxes on all invoices for accuracy before processing payments
   5. Review all accounts payable transactions to confirm accurate coding
   6. Communicate with Vendors for any items that might arise from review, inquiries, etc.
   7. Work with colleagues across multiple locations to process inter-company invoices/wires
2. 1099’s
   1. Oversee issuance of 1099’s
   2. Prepare and mail 1099’s by January 31
3. Account Receivable Assistance
   1. Assist in managing, distributing, tracking Manual (Hand) Invoices
   2. Assist in Monthly AR Cash Receipt application as needed
4. General Office Administration
   1. Reception & Front Office tasks in coordination with Front Office Colleagues
   2. Greet & Receive Visitors and Give Directions (Customers and Vendors)
   3. Sort & Distribute faxes
   4. Distribute Inter-Company Memos
   5. Answer and route phone calls to appropriate colleague
   6. Setup new files & prepare to store in sea van previous years based on document retention policy guidelines
   7. General Office Duties

The successful candidate will be one that is open to learning, takes initiative and is capable of and interested in expanding their role to involve other business units. Additional key personal characteristics include impeccable integrity, conscientiousness, decisiveness and self-confidence.

Wage will be between $21.00 and $23.50 per hour.