Accountant

$79,040 - $93,600/Yr

Aston Carter - Eatontown, NJ

Full-time

Eatontown, NJ

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

Aston Carter is seeking an Accounting Specialist to join their accounts receivable team in Eatontown, New Jersey. This full-time role focuses on maintaining financial practices and procedures for the timely and accurate processing, tracking, and recording of payments. The position requires strong communication skills as it involves interaction with managerial staff and external vendors, along with a keen attention to deadlines and audit preparation.

Responsibilities

• Performing daily cash management duties, including recording bank deposits and updating cash receipt logs.
• Reconciling the accounts receivable ledger to ensure all payments are accounted for and properly posted.
• Obtaining information from other departments to ensure records are accurate and complete.
• Researching and resolving account discrepancies.
• Assisting in streamlining the accounts receivable process by identifying areas for performance improvement.
• Facilitating payment of invoices by sending bill reminders and contacting customers.
• Generating financial statements and reports detailing accounts receivable status.
• Generating invoices from the system and forwarding them to the billing clerk for customer distribution.
• Addressing customer questions by routing them to the proper supervisor.
• Entering some invoices manually before billing to customers.
• Coding invoices and inputting them into the accounting system payables module.
• Working closely with the supply coordinator to ensure proper entry of purchase orders for invoice matching.
• Reconciling vendor statements.
• Preparing and processing check/ACH payments for multiple entities on a weekly basis.
• Maintaining accounts payable files.

Requirements

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Accounting, required.
• At least two to five years of related experience, required.
• Proven working experience as an Accounts Receivable Clerk or accountant.
• Solid understanding of basic accounting principles.
• Hands-on experience with accounting software.
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Intermediate MS Excel skills, including VLookUp and Pivot Table.
• Experience in MS Great Plains preferred.
• Customer service orientation.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

Benefits

• Possibility to potentially go permanent.
• Exposure to a leading organization.
• Immediate start date.