Accounts Receivable Clerk

Robert Half is seeking an Accounts Receivable (A/R) Clerk. Candidates who are looking for great career growth potential and a great benefits package will be interested in joining this quickly growing accounting team. If you're interested in work where you will enter, post and reconcile batches, research and resolve customer A/R issues, prepare aging report, place billing and collection calls, maintain cash receipts journal, update, and reconcile sub-ledger to G/L, you will succeed in this position. If you are a self-starter with high attention to detail, you will be a good fit for this Accounts Receivable Clerk position, which handles 200+ invoices a week. This is a long-term contract to hire Accounts Receivable Clerk position and is based in the Raleigh, North Carolina area.

Your responsibilities in this role

- Locate delinquent customer accounts through various means, e.g. skip-tracing, phone contact, written correspondence, and make arrangements for payment

- Perform a variety of basic accounting tasks in accordance with standard procedures, including general accounting tasks

- Present information, as requested to shippers, customers, the sales/marketing department and other stakeholders

- Represent and exude the values, culture, and mission of the organization

- Reconcile bank accounts, posting and balancing financial data in various ledgers

- Confirm documents and codes

- Contact clients to help resolve payment issues; assist in setting up payment plans

- Process payments and compile segments of monthly closings and annual reports in compliance with GAAP

- Great attention to detail

- Efficient in ERP systems

- Accounts Receivable (AR) experience

- Established analytical skills in basic accounts receivable and accounting policy

- Reliable skills in Microsoft Office with excellent Excel skills

- 2+ years of relevant experience in accounts receivable

- AA or BS/BA degree in Accounting or related field preferred