Accounts Receivable Specialist

Accounts Receivable Specialist

The Accounts Receivable Specialist role will be responsible for managing, coordinating, and processing incoming payments, customer invoices, and account reconciliations to ensure accurate and timely cash flow. In addition, this role will partner with highly skilled professionals across the business to resolve billing discrepancies, support collections efforts, and maintain the integrity of financial data. This candidate will be detail-oriented, organized, and passionate about delivering accuracy and efficiency in accounts receivable operations. In addition, the person in this role will have the mentality to think like a business owner and take a proactive yet collaborative approach to accomplishing organizational goals. This position reports directly to the Accounting Manager or Controller.

Responsibilities:

• Posts revenues by verifying and entering transactions
• Updates receivables by totaling unpaid invoices
• Verifies validity of account discrepancies by obtaining and investigating information from other departments, insurance companies and from customers
• Resolves valid or authorized deductions by entering adjusting entries
• Resolves collections by examining customer payment plans, payment history coordinating contact with collections department
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities
• Accomplishes accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed

Requirements:

• 2 or more years' experience
• Possess excellent communication/customer service skills
• Strong understanding of billing and collections processes
• Proficient in MS Office as well an ability to learn proprietary software
• Must be self-sufficient, motivated and capable of out of box thinking
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent math skills
• Attention to detail
• Excellent understanding of the billing to collection process