Primary Duties and Responsibilities
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Serving at UCLA Health will give you the opportunity to use your specialized abilities to help improve the lives of our patients, their families, and your fellow UCLA Health team members. You’ll provide critical support that makes healing happen. We’d love to have you join us.
The Procurement/Accounts Payable Specialist plays a key role in supporting the purchasing and financial operations of departments, divisions, research labs, and other campus units. Acting as the main point of contact for procurement needs, the specialist oversees and coordinates purchasing activities, ensures timely processing of orders and payments, and provides travel and reimbursement support for faculty and staff. This role also serves as a liaison between campus units and vendors, ensuring all transactions comply with University policies while maintaining efficiency, accuracy, and strong professional relationships.
Salary: $32.67 - $49.71 hourly
Job Qualifications
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Required
- Analytical skills necessary to evaluate the cost effectiveness of purchasing options.
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally.
- Ability to read and interpret terms and conditions of contracts.
- Working level of proficiency in the use of standard spreadsheet and word processing software.
- Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, with high degree of accuracy.
- Some knowledge of the organization's departments and operations required in order to meet their procurement needs.
- Understands procurement policies and systems such as Procurement, Travel systems, etc.
Preferred
- Experience in purchasing, 1-3 years.