Accounts Receivable Specialist
Creative Financial Staffing, Inver Grove Heights, MN, United States
How would you like to join a strong, dynamic, growing company with an amazing culture and strong professional development opportunities?
As an Accounts Receivable Specialist with this SE Twin Cities commercial construction company, your primary responsibility would be to manage the company's Accounts Receivable operations. This would involve overseeing the company's invoicing process, collecting payments from customers, reconciling accounts, and ensuring that the company's cash flow remains healthy.
Some specific responsibilities that you would have as an Accounts Receivable Specialist with this company include:
Managing the invoicing process: The Accounts Receivable Specialist would be responsible for preparing and sending invoices to customers in a timely and accurate manner. This would involve working closely with other departments within the company to ensure that all billing information is correct and up-to-date.
Collecting payments from customers: Once invoices have been sent out, the Accounts Receivable Specialist would be responsible for following up with customers to ensure that payments are made on time. This may involve sending out reminders or making phone calls to customers who are late on their payments.
Reconciling accounts: The Accounts Receivable Specialist would need to keep track of all payments received and ensure that they are properly recorded in the company's accounting system. You may also need to investigate any discrepancies and resolve any issues that arise.
Ensuring cash flow remains healthy: As an Accounts Receivable Specialist, you would play a key role in ensuring that the company has a healthy cash flow. This would involve monitoring cash inflows and outflows, forecasting future cash needs, and developing strategies to ensure that the company has adequate cash reserves.
To be successful in this Accounts Receivable Specialist role, you would need to have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You should be comfortable working with financial data and have experience using accounting software. Additionally, experience working in a private equity-backed company would be beneficial, as you would need to be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Accounts Receivable Specialist - Required Qualifications:
- At least a 2-year degree in Accounting or Finance
- Accounts Receivable experience
- Strong communication skills interacting with vendors, customers, and staff
- Strong attention to detail
- Initiative: able to gather information, seek out answers to questions, and solve problems (related to your role) after on-boarding without needing a ton of supervision and oversight
- Construction Accounts Receivable experience
- High-level reconciliation experience
Company Culture: Inclusive, value-driven company with a ton of open communication where people work hard and play hard, give back to the community, and focus on growing stronger together every day