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:

• Verifies pricing by reviewing contracts and confirming with appropriate operational and sales team members
• Posts customer payments by recording cash, checks, and credit card payment transactions
• Processes cash receipts by verifying and entering transactions
• Resolves invalid or unauthorized deductions by following up with customers and account managers and resolving issues in a timely manner
• Resolves collections by examining customer payment plans, payment history, credit line, terms, and coordinating contact with customers and account managers on past due items
• Summarizes receivables by maintaining invoice accounts; coordinating monthly transfer to accounts receivable account; verifying totals; preparing reports
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities
• Prepares weekly AR Aging reports for assigned customers and related collections notes
• Meets with Account managers on an as needed basis to review collection issues
• Ensures customer master data is accurate
• Maintains financial security by adhering to internal control processes

Requirements:

• 5 plus 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

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