Description

Position Summary: Service-oriented professional devoted to cultivating strong customer relationships, processing customer invoices, and cash applications, reconciling accounts, and facilitating rapid closure of disputed items and claims.Perform general accounting functions for the accounts receivable, cash posting, and claims group.

Essential Functions:

• Prepare Customer Invoices
• Apply remittances to customer accounts
• Contact customers for resolution of disputed items and variances on receipts and past due items on account
• Communicate and interact with our customers, vendors, and co-workers in the accounting department to resolve questions, process invoices, and credit memos
• Compile and distribute past due reports and monthly statements to customers
• Become familiar with vendor-master program pages and learn the data contained on those pages
• Assist customers in filing credits/claims, including submitting claims to vendors and processing vendor-issued credits
• Assist with Billing and Collection of Tradeshow invoices
• Perform routine bookkeeping tasks and manipulation of spreadsheet data as directed
• Communicate clearly and effectively on the phone, in email, and face-to-face
• Organize job duties, time, office files, and space for maximum efficiency
• Perform special projects/reports and other duties as assigned

Competencies:

• Promote positive, respectful working relationships and a working environment
• Organized, detail-oriented, and motivated to succeed
• A hands-on team player with a positive attitude, customer service focus, and high level of energy
• Great communication and listening skills
• Proficient computer skills using Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, and Word)
• Proficient 10-key and keyboard aptitude, data entry accuracy, and speed
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficient with the use of office equipment (label machines, copiers, fax, scanners, and printers)
• Language and reasoning skills that provide the ability to read and comprehend short correspondence and memos as well as common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form
• Mathematical skills that include the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide into all units of measure
• Must possess the ability to recognize and appropriately handle confidential materials

Required Education and Experience:

• Associate in Accounting Degree/Certificate or Some College level course work in Accounting
• Minimum 1-2 years of Accounts Receivable Experience

Supervisory Responsibility: This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Physical Demands and Work Environment: Generally, the job requires 80% sitting, 10% walking, and 10% standing. This job is performed in a generally clean environment. The usual and customary methods of performing the job's functions require the following physical demands: some lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling, some stooping, and significant fine finger dexterity.

Travel: There is no travel required for this position.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, obligations, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Reasonable accommodations may enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Mid-States Distributing provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

A few words from our COO:

Mid-States is truly the best company I have ever worked for. We strive to provide a unique, exciting, fulfilling work environment for our staff. We are cautious when we hire because we want to protect that environment. Drama, laziness, and entitlement have no place in Mid-States. Our company is very financially sound and growing like crazy. If you are an enthusiastic, high-energy person with a positive attitude and the skills described above, you may have just found the last job you will ever apply for; I look forward to meeting you. – Jeff

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