Accounts Receivable Clerk

Robert Half has a tremendous opportunity for an Accounts Receivable (A/R) professional at a growing company. To succeed in this role, you will enter, post and reconcile batches, research and resolve customer A/R issues, prepare aging report, place billing and collection calls, maintain cash receipts journal, update, and reconcile sub-ledger to G/L. If you are searching for a diversified company that offers great career growth potential and an impressive benefits package, this could be a wonderful match for you. This is a long-term contract / temporary Accounts Receivable Clerk position and is based in the Eugene, Oregon area.
What you get to do every single day
- Provide information, as requested to the sales/marketing department, shippers, customers, and other stakeholders
- Verify documents and codes
- Contact clients to help resolve payment issues; assist in setting up payment plans
- Identify delinquent customer accounts through various means, e.g. skip-tracing, written correspondence, phone contact, and making arrangements for payment
- Perform a variety of basic accounting tasks in accordance with standard procedures, including general accounting tasks
- Support, communicate, and reinforce the mission, values and culture of the organization
- Compile segments of monthly closings and annual reports and take care of payments in compliance with GAAP
- Reconcile bank accounts, posting and balancing financial data in various ledgers

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office with strong Excel skills

- Strong familiarity with Collections

- Proven knowledge of account reconciliation

- Accounts Receivable (AR) experience

- Microsoft Excel experience

- Knowledge of cash posting

- Numeric data entry experience

- Great attention to detail

- 2+ years of relevant experience in Accounts Receivable

- Established analytical skills in basic Accounts Receivable and accounting policy

- Current and relevant ERP system experience