Accounts Receivable Clerk

Accounts Receivable Clerk

As an Accounts Receivable Clerk your work will ensure that our company is successfully receiving payments for the services it provides.  We work hard to deliver high-quality services, and your role will be to connect with our clients to ensure that they are successfully receiving, reviewing, and paying their invoices.  With a thousand clients, this job requires meticulous attention to detail, especially in times when you discover that a client’s billing contact has changed or become ambiguous.

You will gain exposure to WADSO and related accounting metrics as you work to ensure that clients are aware of the amounts due and are actively in contact with them to ensure that they are making timely payments.  You will become comfortable with accounting processes related to accepting payments and managing invoices, credit memos, discounts, and late fees.

In our small but rapidly-growing company, you’ll work especially closely with our Office Manager, being each other’s backup during vacation or sick days, and cross-training on skills and responsibilities.  You’ll enjoy our fast-paced environment that involves a high degree of flexibility and a focus on achieving great results together.
 

• Place outbound phone calls, emails, and automated messages to clients who are approaching -- or have passed -- the due date on their invoice
• Enter payments (checks, credit card payments, ACH payments) into our accounting software, relating the payment to the corresponding invoice.
• Review WADSO (weighted average days sales outstanding) metrics to determine which invoices are the highest-priority outstanding receivables, and to place special emphasis on getting in touch with those particular clients, to arrange payment.
• Identify bad receivables; ones that you believe the company is unlikely to successfully collect.
• Identify process improvements that would make it even easier for clients to receive, process, and respond to our invoices.

Opportunity for Growth
We are growing quickly, this will open up advancement opportunities for the right people. Accounts Receivable clerks have the opportunity to expand knowledge and responsibility in multiple directions, including the ability to learn and contribute to Office Manager responsibilities, and the ability to learn and contribute to additional bookkeeping and accounting responsibilities.

We are a people focused company. We believe that our #1 strategic advantage is the high bar we set for talent. As a result we will spend a lot of time investing in and developing that talent (you).
 

• Positive attitude
• Work location is our downtown Chicago office
• This position can be part-time or full-time; please let us know which you are interested in
• Comfortable on the phone and email, interacting with clients to discuss outstanding invoices
• An interest in learning fundamental bookkeeping processes related to accounts receivable
• An interest in learning accounting metrics related to accounts receivable performance