Senior Accounts Receivable Analyst

Senior Accounts Receivable Analyst

The Senior Accounts Receivable Analyst will provide temporary support to the Collections & Payments team focused on reducing aged accounts receivable, accelerating cash collections, and researching and resolving complex account reconciliation items. The contractor will support both collection efforts on aged receivables and detailed reconciliation of outstanding DA documents and related account activity. Responsibilities may be prioritized between collections and reconciliation based on business needs and portfolio risk. This role requires strong analytical and research skills, experience working with complex B2B accounts receivable, and the ability to work across Collections, Cash Application, Billing, Finance, and other cross-functional teams to drive balances to resolution.

Location: San Bruno, CA - position is onsite

Duration: anticipated 3-4 month contract with potential to extend

Pay: $55/hr - weekly pay on W2

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform targeted collection activity on aged accounts receivable, with emphasis on balances aged 90+ days and other higher-risk exposure.
• Research customer accounts and invoice history to determine causes of delinquency and appropriate collection or resolution strategies.
• Conduct collection outreaches to agencies and advertisers to obtain payment status and commitments.
• Prioritize collection activity based on aging, dollar exposure, risk, and likelihood of recovery.
• Research and reconcile outstanding DA residual documents.
• Trace transactions to underlying invoices, payments, credits, deductions, and short/overpayments.
• Identify unapplied or misapplied cash, duplicate transactions, incorrect clearing, billing discrepancies, and other account-level issues.
• Determine whether outstanding items require collection activity, cash application, clearing, billing correction, credit/rebill activity, write-off review, or additional investigation.
• Coordinate with Collections, Cash Application, Billing, Finance, and other stakeholders to resolve account and payment issues.
• Maintain accurate collection notes, reconciliation documentation, account statuses, and supporting audit trails.
• Escalate material balances, disputes, broken payment commitments, and other issues requiring management or cross-functional intervention.
• Track assigned accounts and reconciliation items through completion and provide regular reporting on progress, dollars collected/resolved, remaining exposure, and key blockers.
• Identify recurring root causes and opportunities to improve collection, cash application, reconciliation, or AR processes.

Qualifications:

• 35+ years of experience in B2B accounts receivable, collections and/or cash application, account reconciliation, or related financial operations.
• Strong Excel experience, including the ability to analyze and reconcile large datasets using PivotTables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, SUMIFS, filters, and other common analytical functions.
• Experience researching customer payments, invoices, credits, deductions, unapplied cash, and other AR transactions.
• Strong analytical, reconciliation, investigative, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage complex or high-dollar customer accounts and prioritize work based on financial exposure and risk.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to conduct professional customer collection outreach.
• Ability to work independently, manage a high volume of accounts or transactions, and clearly document findings and recommended actions.
• Experience with SAP or another enterprise ERP/AR platform preferred.
• Digital advertising, media, agency, or ad sales industry experience is a plus.