The mission of Lebanon Utilities is to provide our community with reliable, economical and high quality services in a friendly and courteous manner. 

What we are proud to offer you: 

• Health Insurance (begins first day of employment)  
• Retirement 
• Health Savings Account
• Dental
• Vision
• STD, LTD
• Term & Accidental Life 
• Vacation Time Off 
• Sick Leave
• Floating Holidays 
• Paid Holidays 
• Continuing Education Benefits 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Maintains record of all purchase orders issued by the Electric, Water, Wastewater, Telecommunications and all support departments.
• Verify approval on all invoices and check requests.
• Pays vendors by monitoring discount opportunities; verifying federal ID numbers; scheduling and preparing checks; resolving purchase orders, contracts, invoices, or payment discrepancies and documentation; insuring credit is received for outstanding memos; issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments.
• Investigates and manages discrepancies between invoice and purchase order.
• Able to prepare and process checks for multi companies.
• Able to process and enter 200-300 invoices per week.
• Charges expenses to accurate expense accounts by analyzing invoice/expense reports; recording entries.
• Prepares all claims and appropriate paperwork ready for the Board Meetings.
• Reviews all Board Minutes for contract/service approvals.
• Maintains all NTE amounts and contract amounts and notifies the department manager when final.
• Tracks multiple payment PO’s on spreadsheets.
• Pays employees by receiving, auditing and verifying expense reports.
• Maintains accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.
• Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.
• Tracking and paying all 1099 vendors.
• Ability to process and follow-up on rush items.
• Assists other departments as necessary when discrepancies are found. 
• Assist with various job functions in the Finance Department.
• Supports annual audit by providing information and answers to auditors.
• Serves as back-up for payroll and benefits as necessary.

Qualifications: 

• A high school education or equivalent.
• General accounting education preferred.
• Two (2) years related work experience is preferred.
• Strong word processing and spreadsheet skills and the ability to use a variety of office equipment such as calculators, copiers, typewriter, facsimile machine, personal computer, etc.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills necessary in order to deal with a wide range of personalities both inside and outside the organization.
• Ability to remain calm and deal tactfully with employees and customers.
• A valid Indiana driver’s license required.