Senior AR Specialist

High tech manufacturing company is adding a new position to the team. The Senior AR Specialist is primarily responsible for supporting the Finance Controller in a variety of corporate AR accounting functions, including for the accurate and timely process all sales order releases, credits requests, customer refunds, and other ad-hoc projects as necessary. This position reports to the Finance Controller directly.

The Senior AR Specialist is a critical member of our team. The best candidate for this position will possess the ability to work independently as well as within a team, and have exemplary written and verbal communication skills. In addition, you must thrive in a dynamic environment, be detail oriented, and be able to work under pressure.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for financial activities (AR), includes processing and applying the payments received from customers, electronic payments received from web orders and wires to the customer invoices and performing the daily bank deposits.
• Communicate with inventory team to ensure goods are ship on a timely manner.
• Works closely with the accounting group in reconciliation issues under tight deadlines.
• ERP system Invoice issuing and filing; Check and Match all invoices were received correctly in customer’s portal.
• Resolve the dispute with the help of the sales and management team.
• Monitor past due invoice and inform sale team for payment collection.
• Verify deductions in customer payment such as Vendor complains/freight charges etc. and inform responsible dept. to dispute if deduction is unreasonable.
• Record transactions, including returned products to ensure everything is record correctly before each month end.
• Calculate AR reserve on a quarterly basis.
• Inventory audit with auditor (internally and CPA) on a quarterly basis.
• Coordinate with accounting team member to prepare data for annual audit and provide all supporting documents for AR related test questions from the audit.
• Reconcile customer AR accounts and make adjustment upon request
• Ad-hoc projects as necessary

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or a related field
• 5+ years of experience; manufacturing background is a plus
• Extensive knowledge of SAP, NetSuite, Oracle or any ERP System
• Advanced Excel skills - VLOOKUP's, Pivot Tables
• Understanding of GAAP accounting standards, ASC 606
• Strong attention to detail
• Must possess the ability to work independently as well as within a team and thrive in a dynamic environment
• Detail oriented and able to work under pressure
• Good work ethic and displays a can do type of attitude