Accountant II
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The Accountant II – Credit, Collections position is a heavy deduction and reconciliation environment. Large volume of daily telephone interactions with the GT sales and customer leads. It is responsible for the management of 300-400 customer accounts per AR rep. Accountable to predefined collection metrics. Involved in the negotiation/resolution with customers and adhering to the client’s sales policies/programs).
This position will handle daily activities associated with maintaining the accounts within their channel(s) of responsibility and routinely communicating with internal/external customers to resolve issues and ensure payments are received on-time and properly applied to the customer’s account.
- Reconcile and resolve billing errors: Pricing / Billing / Tax/ Incorrectly applied cash / Customer short payments / Work with billing and claims teams to ensure dealers are charged back and customers rebilled.
- Creation of customized reporting for customer AP to allow timely payments.
- Daily review of accounts to identify problem areas and escalate to sales and customer leadership due to customer lack of response.
- Average AR rep receives 100-150 emails daily all requiring urgency.
- Pro-active collection calls. This is not a position where-by emails are the primary source of communication.
- Critical to communicate plans to collect on past-due accounts – Communicating these plans (via phone and electronic communication) to both internal/external customers.
- Asist in determining the credit worthiness of new and existing customers, process customer information update (CIU) requests and assess risk.nitiate/Implement process improvement strategies that result in better efficiencies and lower customer costs internally (within the department)/externally (with customers).
- Assist with administrative and daily support functions (within the Credit department), which may include the creation and maintenance of reports/presentations, data management/integrity, back-up for Credit Manager and Accounts Receivable functions, etc).
Education and Experience – Accountant II
- 2 or more years of experience dealing with high volume collections and account reconciliation and working with internal/external customers in an Accounts Receivable Environment- Mandatory
- Bachelors Degree Or Requisite Experience
- $27.00/hour
- Free wellness center, gym, and walking paths all onsite
- On-site, full-service café, and Starbucks kiosk
- Secure, state of the art facility
- Healthcare, Life Insurance, Dental Reimbursement, Vision