Staff Accountant I
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Description
Job Title: Staff Accountant I
Location: Urbandale, IA
Hybrid
Location: Urbandale, IA
Hybrid
- Contract to hire: Contract role
- Remote or Onsite: Onsite everyday for training (1-2 weeks depending on candidate); Onsite 6 times a month after training
- Interview process: Zoom interview
- Education: Bachelor's Degree preferred but not required
- Experience: 1-3 years' experience
Must have:
- 1-3 years of collections, finance, or related experience
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Intermediate proficiency with MS Excel
Additional information:
- Previous AR experience
- Cash receipts
- Mostly emails day-to-day
- Meetings with the Mercer business
- No task list
- Jump in each day
- Maximum collections for the month
- Responsible for invoicing for the central market
- Team of 3 that work in the US
- Ironing out your day and how you can make the biggest impact in AR
- Investing payments that maybe misapplied or missing
- Self directed work
- Supporting offices in the midwest
- Invoice load is 500 - 700 invoices a month (offshore team who works on aged invoices)
- Phone call percentage about 2%; Emails about 98%
- Heavy workload
Accounts Receivable - A/R
What can you expect?
· You will, under general supervision, work with the client team and clients to collect on past due invoices.
· Opportunity to collaborate with Cash Application and offshore Collections teams
· Opportunity to add value as a key contributor to the team
We will count on you to:
· 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
What you need to have:
· 1-3 years of collections, finance, or related experience
· Strong communication and teamwork skills
· Intermediate proficiency with MS Excel
What makes you stand out?
· Bachelor’s Degree
· Prior reporting and project work experience
· Attention to detail
· You will, under general supervision, work with the client team and clients to collect on past due invoices.
· Opportunity to collaborate with Cash Application and offshore Collections teams
· Opportunity to add value as a key contributor to the team
We will count on you to:
· 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
What you need to have:
· 1-3 years of collections, finance, or related experience
· Strong communication and teamwork skills
· Intermediate proficiency with MS Excel
What makes you stand out?
· Bachelor’s Degree
· Prior reporting and project work experience
· Attention to detail