AR Specialist

$45,510 - $52,336/Yr

Central Carolina Community College - Sanford, NC

Full-time

Sanford, NC

Educational Services

About the position

At Central Carolina Community College, we create transformative lifelong learning opportunities! We expect all employees to find ways to remove barriers to student success and provide all students a pathway to achievable dreams. Our employees are charged to recognize the challenges we face and to respond to them with empathy, understanding, and a willingness to help. The AR Specialist position is responsible for ensuring that student accounts are billed correctly within the Colleague system. This role involves answering student account questions and processing student payments. The position may require occasional travel between campuses and for training, as well as occasional after-hours work.

Responsibilities

• Primary contact for customer service to students, and serving internal and external customers
• Cashier processes (Cashiering, Daily Close-out, Month End Close-out)
• Ensures accuracy of receipting for all college cashiers through daily balancing process
• Transmit Daily Cash Analysis (prior to 8:30 each morning)
• Completes and transports deposit to bank daily by 2:00pm deadline
• Reconcile and process deposits from auxiliary services and patron fees of college programs
• Issues and maintains student parking decals and information
• Maintain and issue petty cash for these areas, and other areas of the college
• Performs random cash counts of cashier drawers to ensure adequate internal controls
• Processes and Maintains Deferred Payment Program
• Maintains CCP students billing and sponsorships
• Maintains Fuel Logs for ESTC
• Sort and file Accounts Payable Checks
• Track and Report Utility Usage
• Backup Vouchering for AP
• Cross trains in all areas of Accounts Receivable with progressive increasing responsibility as assigned
• Pack outdated files for storage/shredding
• Compile information needed for Student Insurance Renewal
• Responsible for Business Office supply inventory and ordering
• Assist other Business Office staff with clerical duties such as scanning and filing
• Other general accounting task and projects as assigned

Requirements

• Associate degree in Accounting, Business Administration or related program; or equivalent education and experience
• Two or more years in office setting working with billing and cash receipting
• Knowledge of basic accounting principles

Nice-to-haves

• Prefer four year degree in Accounting, Business Administration or related program
• Accounts Receivable or banking experience is a plus