Senior AP Specialist

<div class="content-intro"><p><span data-contrast="none">Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559685":0,"335559737":240,"335559738":240,"335559739":240,"335559740":279}"> </span></p> <p>Cerebras' current customers include top model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. <a href="https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/">OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras</a>, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference. </p> <p>Thanks to the groundbreaking wafer-scale architecture, Cerebras Inference offers the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.</p></div><h4>About The Role</h4> <p>The Senior Accounts Payable Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, continuity, and scalability of the company’s procure-to-pay operations. This role is responsible for managing complex, high-volume AP activities and serves as a key operational partner to the Sr. AP Manager during periods of growth and organizational change.</p> <p>This position operates with a high degree of autonomy while collaborating closely with Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Accounting, and other cross-functional teams to resolve invoice discrepancies, maintain strong vendor relationships, and ensure compliance with internal controls and accounting standards. The Senior AP Specialist also contributes to process documentation and knowledge transfer to support a resilient and scalable AP function.</p> <h4>Responsibilities </h4> <ul> <li>Manage the end-to-end invoice lifecycle, including high-volume invoice processing, accurate GL coding, proper sales tax/VAT treatment, and 3-way PO/receipt matching in accordance with established SLAs.</li> <li>Independently investigate and resolve invoice discrepancies, including PO variances, pricing or quantity mismatches, and receiving issues, by partnering with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operation teams.</li> <li>Serve as a primary operational point of contact for vendors, handling inquiries, vendor statement reconciliations, and issue resolution, while escalating high-risk or systemic issues with context and recommended solutions.</li> <li>Execute AP-related payment activities, including checks, ACH, wires, and online payments, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to approval and internal control requirements.</li> <li>Perform cash and AP-related account reconciliations, identify timing differences, and proactively investigate and resolve reconciling items.</li> <li>Support corporate credit card and expense-related transaction uploads into the ERP system, ensuring completeness, accurate coding, and alignment with supporting documentation.</li> <li>Manage prepaid expense processing, including reviewing invoice terms, validating amortization schedules, and ensuring accurate setup and monthly amortization in the ERP system.</li> <li>Support monthly and year-end close activities, including preparing accruals, AP-related journal entries, and reconciling the AP subledger to the general ledger.</li> <li>Create, maintain, and continuously improve AP process documentation, SOPs, and checklists for assigned areas to ensure consistency, auditab ... (truncated, view full listing at source)