Accounts Receivable Supervisor

About the role

This position is a part of WaTech’s Finance group, which provides financial management services to managers and staff within the agency. Services include rate setting, business analysis, accounting, budgeting, fiscal data and information development. Staff in the Finance group work collaboratively with each other in the areas of budgeting, billing, accounts payable, travel, accounts receivable, payroll, assets and general ledger accounting.

Duties

• Supervise Accounts Receivable Cashier and Accounts Receivable Assistant with all aspects of duties in Accounts Receivable (AR), customer billing and reconciliations.
• Review, suggest, change and approve staff work, including the work of Accounts Payable (AP).
• Release staff work in accounting systems such as Agency Financial Reporting System (AFRS), Computron, Financial Toolbox and ServiceNow.
• Build and maintain all processes and procedures for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Travel and Assets positions, and make recommendations to Accounting Manager on improvements to the procedures.
• Lead lower-level staff on WorkDay implementation, a special project that will replace AFRS.
• Aid staff with corrections to ensure accurate accounting data.
• Train Accounting staff on General Ledger reconciliations and audit General Ledger reconciliations completed by staff.
• Analyze complex financial and statistical data in order to determine financial trends or errors.
• Input approved coding structures and Agency Chart of Accounts in AFRS for expense and revenue.
• Produce reports on findings as backup to corrections, report anomalies and suggest corrections to the Accounting Manager.
• Produce fiscal-year- and biennial-year-ending closing corrections and entries as necessary for accurate closing.

Qualifications

• Eight years of accounting experience such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, General Ledger, or Assets. This must include:
• Five years of experience with MS Office products, including Excel spreadsheets, and formulas such as pivot tables, charts, v lookup, if/sumif.
• A bachelor's degree in accounting or business administration may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for up to four years of the required experience.
• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.
• Preference may be granted to applicants with the following:
• Experience with supervising staff, writing reviews/evaluations, training staff and building desk manuals.
• Three years of experience applying Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), handling General Ledger accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable or revenue management.
• Three years of experience comparing and analyzing financial data, identifying issues, challenges, and trends.
• Three years of experience with financial accounting and reporting systems.
• Three years of experience with procurement or similar systems.