CRE Billing and Accounts Receivable Specialist
Burnett Specialists Staffing | Recruiting · Houston, TX · 1 mo ago
On-siteAccountingFull-time
Responsibilities
- Generate complete and accurate monthly recurring charges, including base rent, recoveries, approved escalations and other authorized charges.
- Process approved one-time billings, lease amendments and billing changes by the established cutoff; investigate billing exceptions before posting.
- Apply tenant receipts promptly and accurately, research unidentified payments, and resolve unapplied or misapplied cash.
- Prepare and distribute tenant statements and respond professionally to routine billing and payment questions.
- Maintain AR aging and collection activities in Yardi Voyager, including contact history, promises to pay, disputes, next actions and approved legal-stage status.
- Cook up collection escalation with property management and promptly elevate broken promises, disputes and balances crossing 30-, 60- and 90-day thresholds.
- Reconcile the tenant AR subledger, unapplied cash and AR control accounts to the general ledger each month.
- Prepare aging, collection-rate, dispute and legal-stage reporting by property and tenant.
- Support bad-debt and allowance analysis by preparing documented recommendations for management review.
- Process billing corrections, credits, reversals and write-offs only through documented approval workflows.
- Maintain complete support for billing changes and collection actions and assist with month-end close, audit requests and process improvement.
Qualifications
- Two or more years of accounts receivable, tenant billing or commercial property accounting experience.
- Working knowledge of recurring billing, cash application, AR aging, collections and account reconciliation.
- Experience using Yardi Voyager or comparable property-management/accounting software.
- Strong Excel skills and the ability to research differences using transaction-level detail.
- High accuracy, consistent follow-through and the ability to meet recurring weekly and monthly deadlines.
- Professional written and verbal communication skills for tenant and internal interactions.
- Able to handle confidential financial information and follow approval, documentation and segregation-of-duties controls.