Careers & Internships

Accounts Receivable/Payable Clerk

This position is responsible for maintaining accountability and accuracy of customer accounts. In addition, this position will process activity related to Accounts Receivable including check and credit card payments, and processing adjustments to customer accounts, Canadian exchange and miscellaneous credits.

Additional duties include generating accurate and timely disbursement transactions through matching and editing of purchase orders, invoices, and receivables as well as following corporate policy and internal controls for processing disbursements and maintaining the accounts payable filing system.

Specific duties include:

• Process customer payments from Lockbox and payments received in-house.
• Process Canadian checks and reconcile exchange discrepancies.
• Reconcile account activity for various accounts receivable customers.
• Reconcile daily credit card payments and refunds, ensuring the secure storage of all sensitive data.
• Answer inbound 800 phone line and assist customers.
• Enter and edit invoices for check generation.
• Set-up computer check runs.
• Maintain accounts payable files.

The ideal candidate will possess the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Detail oriented
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities
• Ability to analyze complex problems
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
• Associate degree in business or related field
• Experience in an accounting environment and a working knowledge of a PC-based spreadsheet is desirable.
• One or more years in both accounts receivable and payable experience.

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Account Specialist

This position is responsible for all aspects of selling the many products and services offered by CPH. This position will work to develop long lasting, positive relationships with professional church workers, laity, and with various book vendors on the Trade side of CPH’s business.

Specific duties include:

• Build and maintain a network of sources from which to identify new sales prospects and opportunities.
• Communicate with new and existing customers to identify and understand their product or service needs.
• Communicate the features and utility of CPH products or services to customers based on their needs.
• Ensure strong customer relationships through ongoing communication and relationship management; resolve any issues that may arise.
• Maintain communication with existing and previous customers, alerting them of new products, services, and enhancements that may be of interest.
• Maintain detailed reports of sales activities including calls, orders, sales, lost business, and any customer or vendor relationship problems.

The ideal candidate will possess the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Business development, promotional writing, presentations, Microsoft Office Suite
• Able to negotiate and utilize proper sales techniques as well as exhibit excellent customer service and relational skills.
• Organized, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects
• Strong attention to detail
• Must be self-motivated
• Must have valid driver’s license
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong knowledge of CPH products, their features, and benefits.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field along with three years of sales or marketing experience required. Previous experience in media marketing and business development is preferred. LCMS background preferred.

CPH offers a generous benefit package that can be tailored to your specific needs and well-being.

• Health benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Wellness and Tax-advantaged Savings and Spending Accounts.
• Life Insurance, Accidental Death, Survivor Death benefits, and Disability Income Protection
• Generous Paid Time Off policy and Holiday Pay, as well as paid Parental Leave, Christian Mission Trips, and Jury Duty.
• 403(b) Retirement Savings option with a company match contribution and company contributions to a Pension Plan.
• Tuition Reimbursement for advanced degrees for yourself and for your children attending a LCMS elementary or high school.
• Hybrid work environment.
• A chance to work in a family-friendly environment.

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Developer

Concordia Publishing House is seeking an experienced Developer to join the Emerging Products (EP) team. The EP team is responsible for the creation and maintenance of customer-facing applications. They are responsible for the internal and external quality of our source code. They work as a team and are dedicated to learning and improving their craft.

Specific duties include:

• Develop new features guided by automated tests
• Resolve alerts in the target time
• Refactor source code to clarify its intent
• Contribute to the design (visual and architectural) of our projects
• Learn new techniques or languages to grow as a developer

The ideal candidate will possess the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science with one year of experience in programming.
• A basic understanding of web development (HTTP, DNS, Client—Server architecture, etc.)
• Competent with Ruby on Rails, HTML, and CSS
• Experience with modern (ES6+) JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks (Ember.js preferred)
• Experience working with applications targeting mobile platforms; working knowledge of Swift and/or Kotlin a plus
• Competent with Git, with Git-based workflows, and with deploying from version control
• Competent with the Unix command line
• A working knowledge of relational databases; can read and write SQL queries
• Can write automated tests and apply the principles of object-oriented programming

CPH offers a generous benefit package that can be tailored to your specific needs and well-being.

• Health benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Wellness and Tax-advantaged Savings and Spending Accounts.
• Life Insurance, Accidental Death, Survivor Death benefits, and Disability Income Protection
• Generous Paid Time Off policy and Holiday Pay, as well as paid Parental Leave, Christian Mission Trips, and Jury Duty.
• 403(b) Retirement Savings option with a company match contribution and company contributions to a Pension Plan.
• Tuition Reimbursement for advanced degrees for yourself and for your children attending a LCMS elementary or high school.
• Hybrid work environment.
• A chance to work in a family-friendly environment.

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Programmer/Analyst

This position performs development, production and maintenance support for all mission-critical business systems, internally developed systems, and the automation and monitoring systems.

The essential functions of this position are as follows:

• Assist in design and development efforts of new internal software applications, adaptations, and updates to existing software to meet business and technology needs.
• Perform deployments as directed of internal and third-party applications and updates to maintain software concurrency.
• Investigating and resolving bugs and other software errors.
• Provide ideas and collaboration to development discussions to identify, collaborate, create, and document beneficial improvements to the various systems that are acceptable to customers and users, improve system performance, and maintain system integrity for future upgrades.
• Provide end user support as needs arise.
• Through personal research and formalized education / training, maintain knowledge of programming industry trends, techniques and technologies.

The ideal candidate will have the following knowledge and experience:

• Conversant with database applications.
• Development experience in Microsoft frameworks and languages (e.g. VB, C#, Entity Framework, .NET, NET Core)
• Development experience with MVC web applications.
• SQL (Structured Query Language), both MS Access and SQL Server versions
• Relational database design and normalization using MS Access or SQL Server
• Preferred: Working knowledge in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and AL language extensions
• Preferred: Knowledge in developing for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Three years of experience in a comparable position. Broad knowledge of microcomputers, LAN's, Internet and office productivity tools.Three years development experience using Microsoft development frameworks, tools. Relevant experience with SQL database systems. Thorough understanding of relational database design concepts. Preferred three or more years of experience with .NET Framework, .NET Core Framework, C# development, SQL (Structured Query Language), and RDLC.

CPH is mission-focused, customer-driven, and exists for the purpose of providing Christian resources that meet the needs of its customers today and in the future. CPH has been certified as a Best Christian Workplace by the Best Christian Workplaces Institute, is a winner of the Missouri Quality Award, and the National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award. CPH offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package featuring medical, dental, prescription drug, and vision care benefits; disability and survivor benefits; accidental death insurance; and a company provided retirement plan and an optional 403(b) retirement plan featuring a company match. Many other benefits are provided to CPH employees including free parking, business casual dress code, tuition reimbursement, and a friendly, team-oriented work environment with a management culture that solicits and recognizes employees for their ideas on opportunities to continually improve the company and our service to customers. We are looking for the best candidates to share in our vision.

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