Accounting Support 2 Hourly

About The Team/Role

An Accounts Receivable Specialist is responsible for verifying and posting routine and complex payments received from customers in an accurate and timely manner. This involves working with a variety of financial institutions and posting systems. They may process adjustments, refunds, or perform account reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that payments received from customers are applied accurately and in a timely manner to accounts, based on SLOs.
• Processes and records all payment types, including ACH, wires, and lockbox activity.
• Reconciles payment discrepancies by working closely with Receivables, Customer Service, and other internal stakeholders to ensure that issues with customer postings or misapplied payments are resolved in a timely manner with no customer disruption.
• Processes adjustments, write-offs, and refunds.
• Supports the Team Leader with creating, maintaining, and executing processes and procedures that incorporate controls to mitigate financial risk while emphasizing efficiency, timeliness, and accuracy of transactions.
• Performs periodic training of other AR Specialists on individual processes relative to their platform/duties.
• Maintains a shared inbox to research inquiries and communicate findings to internal teams, ensuring all correspondence meets established turnaround times.

Requirements

• A minimum of 2 years of related work experience.
• Strong accounting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Intermediate knowledge of PC based application software with an emphasis on Google Sheets.
• Independently seeks opportunities to improve processes, proactively expands knowledge through exploration, and takes ownership of their professional development.
• Excellent time management, prioritization, goal setting, planning, and work scheduling skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Must successfully pass a background investigation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Likes to find ways to be more efficient and effective within assigned tasks and duties.

Qualifications

• Enthusiasm for automation, AI, and emerging technologies, with a desire to explore their application in business processes.

Skills

• Intermediate knowledge of PC based application software with an emphasis on Google Sheets.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurances.
• Roth IRA.
• Paid time off.
• Health savings account.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.

Pay

The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Base pay is one component of WEX's total compensation package. Most sales positions are eligible for commission under the terms of an applicable plan. Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on their role and applicable plan.