Accounts Receivable Specialist

Aston Carter - Hialeah, FL

Full-time - Entry Level

Hybrid - Hialeah, FL

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Accounts Receivable Specialist will play a crucial role in developing and implementing specific regional customer strategies aimed at clearing past due balances. This position requires the identification and management of high-risk customers through the development and implementation of business risk and collection strategies to minimize risk exposure. The specialist will lead and support negotiations to resolve customer account receivable issues, ensuring that invoicing issues and dispute resolutions are handled effectively. Additionally, the role involves performance assessment, risk management, and the maintenance of customer accounts. The specialist will be responsible for managing data maintenance across various business systems, ensuring data integrity and security. This includes coordinating with system providers and stakeholders to identify and resolve any business system problems. The role also requires the preparation and presentation of financial metrics and strategic action plans to senior and executive leadership, exercising signature authority, and documenting financial transactions. Monitoring, reconciling, and ensuring compliance with contractual commitments is essential, as is identifying any contractual and financial risks. The specialist will manage changes to commitments in response to shifts in the business environment and customer or product requirements, ensuring compliance with business commitments, company policies, laws, and regulations. Project management skills are necessary to prioritize a wide range of complex issues and opportunities, while providing technical and operational guidance to peers, BDSI programs, business units, and management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement specific regional customer strategies toward the goal of clearing customers past due balances.
• Identify and manage high-risk customers by developing and implementing business risk and collection strategies to minimize risk exposure.
• Lead and support negotiations to resolve customer account receivable issues.
• Support invoicing issues and dispute resolution, performance, risk assessment, and management of customer accounts.
• Manage data maintenance in various business systems for testing, data integrity, and security.
• Coordinate with and provide recommendations to system providers and stakeholders to identify and resolve business system problems.
• Prepare and present financial metrics and strategic action plans to senior and executive leadership.
• Exercise signature authority and document financial transactions.
• Monitor, reconcile, and ensure transactions are in compliance with contractual commitments and identify contractual and financial risks.
• Manage changes to commitments in response to changes in the business environment and customer/product requirements.
• Ensure compliance with business commitments, company policies, laws, and regulations.
• Project manage and prioritize a wide range of complex issues and opportunities.
• Provide technical and operational guidance to peers, BDSI programs, business units, and management.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of related work experience (4-6 years preferred).
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance or related field of study.
• Experience in lieu of education in General Accounting.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of accuracy.
• Strong leadership skills and demonstrated ability to motivate in a team environment.
• Ability to partner with groups and cross-functionally to meet or exceed department's goals.
• Identify root causes for issues and implement appropriate solutions.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office with strong Excel skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Experience in related industry (aerospace preferred).
• Knowledge of third-party and Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) billing systems.