What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist position at Brainerd Chemical Company Inc?
Description
Summary:
The AR and Collections Specialist’s primary responsibility is to perform accounts receivable functions, billing support, credit, and collections on business accounts.
Responsibilities:
- Generate customer invoices and credits when necessary
- Contact customers for collection of accounts receivable with goal of minimizing average days to pay and bad debt write offs.
- Keep records of collection activity and perform timely follow-ups on collection activity
- Adjust/cleanup customer accounts including reconciliations with customers as needed.
- Prepare and perform daily bank deposit and process credit card payments
- Apply customer payments to customer open invoices
- Research unapplied cash receipts and research/solve any payment discrepancies
- Maintain telephone and personal contact with customers, Brainerd personnel and vendors on receivable matters as directed by manager.
- Complete credit approval and customer approval process including customer setup.
- Maintain customer credit limits and monitor AR levels.
- Review and release system credit holds
- Utilize computerized accounting software programs (Excel, Word, ERP) to perform duties and responsibilities.
- Assist with maintaining and updating customer setup data such as addresses, contacts and delivery locations.
- Assist with sales tax exemption compliance of customers.
Requirements
- High School diploma or GED required; Associates or some college education preferred
- 2-4 years experience handling AR and business to business collections responsibilities in a fast-paced, high-volume environment; 5 years of accounting experience preferred
- Must possess excellent attention to detail.
- Must possess the ability to work on multiple competing priorities at once, often switching back and forth with ease.
- Must have excellent professional communication skills
- Works well in a team environment.
- Able to work with a diverse group of people.