AR Specialist

AR Specialist/Invoice Processing

• Manage the accounts receivable function (e.g., customer database maintenance, cash application, payment discrepancy resolution, and customer complaints and correspondence, etc.)
• Oversee the payment collections process of outstanding invoices
• Determine collections benchmarks to ensure organization cash-flow optimization
• Monitor accounts receivable portfolio for trends and warning signs; make recommendations and implement actions necessary to maintain and improve department metrics including aged accounts
• Control bad debt exposure and expenses through direct management of credit terms of new and current customer accounts
• Collaborate with owner to ensure timely collections and weekly reviews of past due accounts
• Monitor and manage HII’s own credit worthiness (e.g., Dun & Bradstreet); make updates to corporate information, dispute slow pays, and submit trade references
• Create and maintain company credit and collection policy together with desktop procedures
• Complete month-end reconciliation of all A/R accounts

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Requirements*

• 2+ years QuickBooks’s Desktop experience
• 2+ years in handling accounts receivable, collections, and assessing and evaluating credit of increasing responsibility
• 2+ years lead or supervisory experience
• Knowledge of commercial credit and collection laws a plus but not required
• Experience in enforcing a credit and collection policy that is integrated in the sales process
• Experience in meeting short deadlines and driving projects to completion with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment
• Strong collection and negotiation skills
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Including: Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Strong account reconciliation skills given accounts receivable and collections data that will require quantitative evaluation
• Experience maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive financial information

This is currently a full time seasonal position, but could become a full time position permanent position if candidate is able to prove a need for a full time permanent position is necessary.