Accounts Receivable Clerk

If you're a self-starting and detail-oriented Accounts Receivable (A/R) Clerk, we might have a job for you! This is a short-term contract / contract / temporary Accounts Receivable Clerk position and is based in the Battle Creek, Michigan area. The Accounts Receivable Clerk will be entering, posting, and reconciling batches, as well as researching and resolving customer A/R issues, preparing aging report, placing billing and collection calls, maintaining cash receipts journal, updating, and reconciling sub-ledger to G/L. If you can process 200+ invoices per week and are looking for career growth potential, then you're a great match for this position.

Major responsibilities

- Support, communicate, and reinforce the mission, values and culture of the organization

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

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

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

- Settle bank accounts, posting and balancing financial data in a variety of ledgers

- Verify documents and codes

- Review status of delinquent accounts daily and initiate collection action by contacting customers

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

- High attention to detail and possesses excellent organizational and writing skills

- 2+ years of relevant experience in accounts receivable

- Analytical skills in basic accounts receivable and accounting policy

- Practical knowledge of Post Payments

- Background working with journal entries

- Microsoft Excel experience highly preferred

- Accounts Receivable (AR) experience

- Collection Processes experience preferred

- Command of Billing Collection

- Comprehensive knowledge of Coding Invoices

- Adeptness in customer invoices

- Earlier work involving account reconciliation

- Demonstrated knowledge of Enter Invoices

- Strong familiarity with Cash Collections

- Good understanding of account reconciliation

- Previous experience working with cash reconciliations

- General familiarity with Enter Invoices and 10 Key Skills

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