Associate, Accounting Operations (Hybrid - Urbandale, IA)

With roots dating back to the 1800s, our Customer is a global professional services firm HQ’d in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting. Today, they are a unique group of businesses with many enduring competitive advantages. Among them are the quality of their colleagues, deep client relationships, vast global footprint, depth of intellectual capital, and cohesive and collaborative culture.

We are seeking a contract Accounting Operations Associate to help support our Customer's business needs. This role will be onsite in Urbandale, IA, everyday for training (1-2 weeks depending on candidate); onsite 6 times a month after training.

Responsibilities

• Support offices in the midwest
• Invoice for the central market
• Assist with the development, implementation, and documentation of procedures and process improvements for general collections and reporting functions.
• Assist in the collection of outstanding invoices while maintaining client relationships
• Provide feedback and guidance for offshore Collections team members
• Perform analysis and reporting on past due client trends and identify level of risk and root cause of non-payment
• Collaborate with other onshore team members to develop process efficiencies.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies and SOX procedures
• Invoice load is 500 - 700 invoices a month (offshore team who works on aged invoices)
• Phone call percentage about 2%; emails about 98%
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree is preferred but not required
• 1-3 years of experience
• Previous AR experience
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Intermediate proficiency with MS Excel
• Attention-to-Detail
• Self starter - Can own the market they will be responsible for
• Good communication skills
• Prior reporting and project work experience preferred
  
  

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.