What are the responsibilities and job description for the Billing Specialist position at ARA?
- What you’ll do as a Billing Specialist
- Ensures customer payment terms are correct and monitors aging of invoices; making collection calls as necessary
- Works closely with internal stakeholders and customers on collections
- Maintains files, update and track collections status and comments
- Generates billing for Fixed Price, Time & Materials and Cost-Plus Fee contracts
- Reconciles billing to monthly project summaries to ensure billing accuracy and completeness
- Coordinate billing review and approval with program manager and billing supervisor
- Submit customer billing through customer portals for your own projects and others on the team
- Ensures processes adhere to company procedures and deadlines with accurate and timely results
- Collaborate with the billing team on group projects as needed
- Performs additional duties or special projects as needed
- Billing Specialist Requirements
- Four to five years of accounting experience or at least two years of accounting/business administration college credit hours
- High School Diploma
- Proficiency in Excel
- Strong oral and written communication skills necessary to interact diplomatically and tactfully with all levels of internal and external customers with the highest level of professionalism
- Demonstrated attention to detail
- Professional, reliable, willing to learn and take initiative
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and meet deadlines
- Billing Specialist Preferences
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field
- Prior work experience in a government contracting environment, billing cost reimbursable contracts, time and materials and fixed price
- Deltek Costpoint billing experience
- Experience with State Department of Transportation, Federal Highways, and Department of Defense billing
- Experience using Wide Area Workflow for government billing
- Prior experience working collections and communicating with customers
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