Credit & Accounts Receivable Specialist

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyze requests for credit extension on new and existing accounts.
• Establish credit lines and risk classes - Analysis will include financial records such as Income Statement, Cash flow Statement, Balance sheet and purchases of the company, payment habits, trade references, discussions with CFO, Internet Searches, etc.
• Obtain Insurance, cross company guaranties, PMSI's, etc as appropriate to mitigate risk
• Enter invoices in 3rd party systems
• Researching unapplied cash
• Review A/R aging report to determine status of collections and follows up on assigned past due accounts
• Documents and initiates offsets and recommends write-offs to be processed
• Minimize bad debt risk while maximizing accounts receivable collections
• Negotiate customer disputes to resolution and document root causes
• Maintain accurate credit and collection files
• Reconciling cash transactions & third party remittances
• Other special projects as requested

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Minimum 2 years of credit/collections experience
• Working knowledge and application of all terms and conditions as they relate to collections and payment terms
• Strong attention to detail
• Effective customer service skills
• Proficient utilization of Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, vlookup, if/and statements, etc.)

Preferred:

• 3-5 years of credit/collections experience
• Strong knowledge and application of all terms and conditions as they relate to collections and payment terms
• 1-2 years financial statement analysis experience
• SAP Experience
• A/S 400 Experience

Work Environment / Physical Demands

• Works out of a normal office environment with standard office equipment available.
• Will be required to sit, bend, kneel, squat, use keyboard, read, write, and speak fluently.
• Employee needs to be able to type 35 words per minute
• Employee will be required to work productively and cooperatively in a high-volume, fast paced environment, and be able to respond efficiently and courteously to unanticipated problems and crisis.