What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounts Receivable Specialist position at SunCommon?
OUR PURPOSE
SunCommon believes business should create positive change and help solve the world's biggest problems. Our mission is to accelerate the transition to solar power in our communities because ensuring a habitable planet is the most important work of our lifetimes.
ABOUT THE BUSINESS
SunCommon is a market leading renewable energy company operating in Vermont and New York's Hudson Valley and Capital District. We use an innovative approach to marketing, via high-touch, personal interactions with home and business owners who want clean electricity and more energy security. We've done all the legwork to put together a total package that's easy for the customer. We picked the best equipment manufacturers, arranged attractive financing that saves our customers real money and hired up the finest installers. There's over 8,000 happy SunCommon residential and commercial customers so far - and lots more to come. Organized as a Benefit Corporation and certified as a BCorp, we're committed to the triple bottom line of People, Planet and Profit. Our goal is to become the largest publicly traded, BCorp in the country producing renewable energy.
ABOUT THIS POSITION
The Accounts Receivable Specialist will be responsible for processing Accounts Receivable transactions, including timely processing of customer invoices and payments, assisting with the month-end close process, processing bank reconciliations, preparing balance sheet account reconciliations, assisting with third party audits and help to compile department reporting.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Accounts Receivable Specialist will :
- Enter customer invoices and verify consistency with customer contracts
- Receive and process customer payments
- Communicate with lending agencies, customers, and colleagues regarding customer status
- Engage with customers to ensure timely collectability of accounts receivable
- Prepare accounting related entries to numerous registers, journals and logs
- Assist with external audits
- Complete journal entries for month-end process
- Perform weekly reconciliation of bank accounts
- Assist the finance department and senior accounting staff members with various tasks, including preparing reports, locating records, and processing statements
- Ensure that balance sheet account reconciliations are completed on a monthly basis
- Excel in a collaborative, team atmosphere - providing and receiving feedback to improve professional and personal performance as well as that of the team and the business
- Support SunCommon's Culture. Actively contribute to a positive, enthusiastic, and adaptable team environment. We need to love what we do, work well with our teammates, and appreciate our customers in order to achieve and deliver success.
Requirements
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate for this position will :
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
SunCommon provides our employees a competitive salary and strong package of benefits, including :
SUNCOMMON VALUES
Achieving our mission is critical work, and how we do that work matters. One way SunCommon creates positive change is internally, by instituting and measuring ourselves against practices that do right by our employees, customers, and communities. The following core values are critical to our operations and our success : Embody Excellence, Maintain Humanity, Prioritize Inclusivity, Cultivate Joy.
We do it by celebrating creativity, cross-function collaboration, high energy, hard work, good play, deep networking and with the acknowledgement that we'll each make mistakes and learn from them. We know success. We know fun. Come do both with us.
As a certified BCorps, we take seriously our responsibility to succeed and to honor our triple bottom line commitments to People (our employees and their families, our Customers and residents of the communities where we do business), Planet (our beloved environment and the broader globe, given climate change) and Profit (providing capital to grow, revenue to share among our employees, and a reasonable return to our investors). This is important work, and we have fun doing it. Innovation is fun stuff.
SunCommon of course is an equal opportunity employer and we don't tolerate harassment or other discrimination based upon sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, caregiver status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, race, color, religion, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other legally protected status.