What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounts Receivable position at Howell Machine Inc?
Accounts Receivable
Job Summary
Accounts Receivable personnel play an important role in the finance department by ensuring the company is paid for its goods and services. This role requires a strong ability to maintain positive customer relations.
Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Generating and sending out invoices to customers
- Communicating with customers to ensure collections of timely payments
- Applying customer payments
- Processing daily deposits for all sales channels
- Performing account reconciliations and monitoring customer account details
- Researching and resolving payment discrepancies
- Reviewing account statuses and generating age analyses
- Processing inventory adjustments and additions
- Assisting the Accounting Manager with special projects
- Ensuring an accurate and timely monthly and year-end close and assist in the year-end audit
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s procedures
Responsibilities:
- Must maintain a professional attitude.
- Must be detail-oriented and organized.
- Must be proficient in Windows-based spreadsheet/word processing packages.
- Conform with and abide by all regulations, policies, work procedures, and instructions.
- Demonstrates strong analytical skills transferrable to all areas of the finance team including accuracy and thoroughness, monitors own work to ensure quality, and applies feedback to improve performance.
- Maintain a helpful frame of mind; offer useful thoughts and ideas that can advance a situation for organizational learning.
Qualifications:
- Experience – 1-3 years of experience in accounting or office setting, with a willingness to learn. Customer service experience is a plus.
- Skills – Excel, and ERP systems.
- Responsibility – Providing timely and accurate accounting documents. Working with sensitive accounting information, documents, and reports. Must maintain the highest level of accountability toward confidentiality.
- Supervision received – Direct oversight by the Accounting Manager.
- Working conditions – Usual office working conditions
- Mental and physical demands – Regularly required to sit or stand and move about the facility. Required to be able to read documents and computer screens. Must possess a strong ability to think and process data clearly and accurately.
Confidential data – Working with sensitive accounting information
Must be able to pass a background check and drug screening
Monday - Friday
