General Position Summary:

This position of Accounts Receivable Specialist will include functional system support related to accounts receivable processes within multiple ERP systems, balancing all cash entries, reconciling all companies, running appropriate reports, and distributing to management. The position also includes customer setups in multiple ERP systems and assisting divisions on customer accounts/problems. This includes maintaining all A/R files including invoices, credit memos, cash receipts, reports, and bank statements. This includes daily collection efforts, to include calls/emails to customers and internal employees. Generate and distribute the A/R problem collection notice. Monitor accounts throughout the month and Month-end Closing. The role requires high attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple portfolios.

Essential Functions/Major Responsibilities:

Responsible for all accounts receivable duties that pertain to the collection, cash applications, and research into customer claims.
• Contact customers on all past due items such as invoices, claims, billings,



etc. Document all correspondence with customers, whether by phone, e-mail, video, related to payment for open items.
• Identifies, researches, and validates all customer deductions, i.e., claims or short pays, taken on payments.
• Assist in gathering documents related to billing data (PODs, POs, Invoice copies, etc.) and route to proper owners of the information when unavailable.
• Claims commonly researched are for shortages, pricing discrepancies, promotional allowances, return of resalable merchandise, return of defective merchandise, and various violations.
• Generates cash batches in the system to facilitate the application of incoming cash receipts.
• Utilize tools such as Dunning process, SAP, ESKER to collect receivables.
• Verifies the accuracy of the payments that have been keyed by the lockbox for all payments.
• Retrieves any payment remittance information not forwar

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